Tag Archives: phone hacking

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 ...

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 ...

2014 isn’t turning out very well for Piers Morgan (left) so far. The former Daily Mirror editor and would-be US TV superstar’s peak-time chat show Piers Morgan Live has just been dropped by US news channel CNN as it grapples ...

The Guardian newspaper is a pillar of the British liberal establishment and a worldwide force after its role in exposing phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch’s British newspapers and hosting Edward Snowden’s revelations of industrial-scale US government cyber-snooping. Unfortunately it’s not ...

The beleaguered Guardian, kept afloat by the value of its stake in used car mag and online site Auto Trader, is to raise its weekday cover price from January 12 to £1.40 from £1.20 and its Saturday price (Saturday being ...

According to Adweek Evian’s ‘Baby & Me’ from BETC was the most-watched YouTube ad of 2013 vwith over 67m hits. Well you can’t say fairer than that and, although cute babies are not really our thing, BETC pulls it off ...

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 ...

Whatever took them so long? Plod has finally pounced on four miscreant Mirror Group journalists in a dawn raid conducted by the Weeting (phone hacking) team. And what a haul it has proved to be. The four include the first ...