Former News of the World editor and UK government communications director Andy Coulson (below) – sentenced to 18 months in jail for his part in the phone hacking scandal that saw the demise of Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World ...
Read More »“They all knew about it” says News of the World’s Thurlbeck as he speaks after phone hacking verdicts
It was, indeed, “slightly sad,” as phone hacking trail judge Lord Justice Saunders remarked, that former New of the World chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck (left, who pleaded guilty to phone hacking along with some NoW colleagues) had chosen to give ...
Read More »Andy Coulson convicted of phone hacking, Rebekah Brooks and co found innocent
What to make of the verdicts in the great phone hacking trial? Former News of the World editor, Downing Street head of communications and lover of Rebekah Brooks Andy Coulson (left) has been found guilty of conspiring to hack phones ...
Read More »Phone hacking spotlight falls on Trinity Mirror papers
A rather large cat jumped out of the bag in the phone hacking trial at the Old Bailey in London yesterday. Former Sunday Mirror journalist Dan Evans (left), appearing as a witness for the prosecution, claimed that he had hacked ...
Read More »Grey unveils lively New Year campaign for the Sun – but it’s still too bossy for its own good
It’s going to be a big year for the Rupert Murdoch’s Sun newspaper in the UK, one of the more profitable planks of his hived-off print business News Corp. The phone and computer hacking and corrupt payments trial of senior ...
Read More »Three former NoW execs plead guilty to phone hacking as Rebekah Brooks trial gets underway
A very entertaining drama is being played out at London’s Old Bailey courthouse, best known for celebrated murder trials over the decades. This one, of course, involves lesser matters: charges of phone hacking, bribing public officials and concealing evidence of ...
Read More »That was the week that was: Leveson, Oreo and, best of all, Norway!
*The Leveson Inquiry into UK media ethics (or the lack of them) duly reported and proposed a very sensible system of, essentially, self regulation for the UK’s rumbustious national press, with a legal framework preventing the bastards from just ignoring ...
Read More »Leveson solution does the job – but PM Cameron and the Press mafia will kick it into the long grass
LOL – now he knows what it means – must have been David Cameron’s reaction after reading Lord Leveson’s report on the culture, practice and ethics of the UK press. First came an audible sigh of relief over the vindication ...
Read More »Do the Murdoch and Autonomy scandals show that the billions spent on corporate PR are wasted?
I’ve no idea how much has been spent on what we used to call corporate public relations over the last decade but it must run into many billions of whatever currency you choose. Since PR firms had the bright wheeze ...
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