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By Stephen Foster on April 26, 2012
The News of the World may have Rupert Murdoch’s first UK newspaper but he doesn’t seem to have liked it very much. Asked at the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics today about the paper, which he closed last year after the revelation that the paper’s staff had hacked into murder victim Milly Dowler’s phone (although [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged Clive Goodman, closure, leveson inquiry, Milly Dowler, news interntional, news of the world, panic, phone hacking, Rupert Murdoch
By Staff on December 14, 2011
The notorious ‘for Neville’ email circulating at the News of the World in 2008 holds the key to the future of James Murdoch at News Corporation and, very likely, at UK pay-TV operator BSKyB which is 39 per cent owned by News Corp. The email, sent to the News of the World’s chief reporter Neville [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged Andy Coulson, bksyb, Clive Goodman, for Neville email, James Murdoch, Milly Dowler, Neville Thurlbeck, news corporation, news of the world, phone hacking scandal, Rebekah Brooks
By Stephen Foster on September 21, 2011
New Metropolitan Police commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe (why do double-barrelled names sometimes sound so untrustworthy?) has only been in the job for a week or so but he’s already overseen a humiliating climbdown for the force in its efforts to force the Guardian newspaper to reveal its sources for its investigation in the phone hacking scandal. [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Amelia Hill, Bernard Hogan-Howe, director of public prosecutions, guardian, Keir Starmer, Milly Dowler, new met police commissioner, news of the world, Nick Davies, official secrets act, phone hacking
By Stephen Foster on September 19, 2011
Coalition government attorney general Dominic Grieve, himself a lawyer, says that he, in conjunction with the Crown Prosecution Service, will have to approve any Metropolitan Police prosecution of the Guardian for being in receipt of leaks pertaining to the News of the World phone hacking affair. The Met is proposing to charge the Guardian under [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Amelia Hill, Bernard Hogan-Howe, cps, crown prosecution service, Damian Green, Dominic Grieve, guardian, met police, Milly Dowler, Nick Davies, official secrets act, phone hacking scandal
By Stephen Foster on July 19, 2011
The News of the World phone hacking scandal isn’t about money is it? It’s about rights and ethics and the Murdoch family’s desire to retain control of News Corporation surely. Maybe it is but sleuths at the Financial Times have worked out that, so far, the scandal (which erupted as a global story just over [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged $1bn loss, Andy Coulson, Chase Carey, James Murdoch, John Yates, Milly Dowler, news corporation, parliamentary comittee, phone hacking scandal, Rebekah Brooks, Rupoert Murdoch, Sean Hoare, share price
By Stephen Foster on July 6, 2011
First it was Ford then Halifax now just about every major brand to use the News of the World, still the UK’s biggest-selling paper of any description, seems to be reviewing its advertising in the paper. The NoW is estimated to take about £50m in ad revenue a year. Most worrying, among the latest batch, [...]
Posted in Clients, Media, News, Politics | Tagged 7/7 terrorist atrocity, advertisers, crime victims, ford, halifax, Milly Dowler, News International, news of the world, phone hacking, police investigation, Rebekah Brooks, Sainsburys
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