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By Stephen Foster on May 10, 2012
That’s what we all want to find out from the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics tomorrow (Friday) when former News of the World and Sun editor, and latterly CEO of Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper operation News International, Rebekah Brooks takes the stand. How do we know Dave sent all these text messages, and that Rebekah [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andy Coulson, bskyb, Charlie Brooks, chipping norton set, David Cameron, Jeremy Clarkson, leveson inquiry, Liz Murdoch, Lord Leveson, Matthew Freud, media ethics, news of the world, payments to police, phone hacking scandal, pr maven, Rebekah Brooks, Robert Jay QC, Rupert Murdoch, text messages
By Stephen Foster on March 13, 2012
Rebekah Brooks (pictured) and her former racehorse trainer husband Charlie have been arrested as part of Scotland Yard’s Operation Weeting probe into phone hacking – the second time for Rebekah, this time on suspicion of ‘perverting the course of justice.’ Today is the first day of National Hunt racing’s Cheltenham Festival, which the horsey couple [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Adam Boulton, arrests, Barack Obama, BBC, charges, Charlie Brooks, Cheltenham Festival, Clive Goodman, David Cameron, Glenn Mulcaire, horse racing, Jame Murdoch, News International, news of the world, Nick Robinson, operation elveden, operation weeting, payments to police, police horse, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, sky
By Stephen Foster on February 17, 2012
News Corporation owner Rupert Murdoch is due to appear in the Sun’s London newsroom today to reassure them that he won’t sell them down the river (the Thames flows nearby) in the wake of a number of arrests of senior Sun journalists suspected of paying police officers and other official types. The trouble is, he [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andrew Neil, daily express, John Major, Kelvin MacKenzie, payments to police, phone hacking scandal, richard desmond, Rupert Murdoch, Sunday Times, the news of the world, the star, the sun, the times
By Staff on July 11, 2011
UK culture secretary Jeremy Hunt is to write to media regulator Ofcom and the Office of Fair Trading to ask them to look again at the News Corporation bid to buy satellite broadcaster BKyB on the grounds of (a) media plurality (there’s less Murdoch dominance now the News of the World has closed, so good [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged assistant commissioner John Yates, bksyb bid, competition commission, department of culture media and sport, fit and proper owner, James Murdoch, Jeremy Hunt, News International, news of the world, ofcom, office of fair trading, payments to police, phone hacking scandal, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch
By Stephen Foster on July 6, 2011
Which might turn out to be an even bigger scandal than hacking into people’s phones including dead servicemen’s, we read today in the Daily Telegraph. This is Rebekah Wade, as she then was, telling arch-enemy Labour MP Chris Bryant that the News of the World paid policemen for information. Her successor as NoW editor, Andy [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andy Coulson, Chris Bryant, Daily Telegraph, news of the world, payments to police, phone hacking scandal, Rebekah Brooks, Rebekah Wade
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