Phone-hacking

John Whittingdale (Reuters)
By Gavriel Hollander | 22 May 2013
The Conservative MP who chaired Westminster’s hacking inquiry has said that jailing journalists in the UK could send the wrong message abroad.
Mary-Ellen Field (Reuters)
By PA Mediapoint | 17 May 2013
A former adviser to model Elle Macpherson has discontinued her phone-hacking damages action.
By Gavriel Hollander | 16 May 2013
Trinity Mirror's revenue for the first four months of the year fell by 10 per cent compared to the same period in 2013.
By Gavriel Hollander | 09 May 2013
News Corporation has revealed a 35 per cent fall in global publishing in income, despite what the company called “increased contributions from UK newspapers”.
Charlie and Rebekah Brooks (Reuters)
By Press Gazette | 03 May 2013
A security guard used by former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks has been charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
By Dominic Ponsford | 24 Apr 2013
An Independent Police Complaints Commission investigation has found “collective amnesia” at Surrey Police about why no action was taken against the News of the World in 2002 for phone-hacking.
By Dominic Ponsford | 23 Apr 2013
News Corp's total costs arising from the hacking scandal mushroomed yesterday as it reached a $139m settlement with rebel US shareholders. The claim was filed in September 2011 and shareholders accused News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch of using the company as his "personal fiefdom"
By William Turvill | 20 Mar 2013
At least 59 journalists have been arrested in the UK since April 2011 in an unprecedented police crackdown on the UK media. Here we publish a comprehensive timeline detailing the arrests so far.
By Press Gazette | 19 Mar 2013

 

The Crown Prosecution Service has said that journalists can hack emails in the “public interest” dropping the case against Sky News journalist Gerald Tubb.

By William Turvill | 18 Mar 2013
Former News of the World journalist Bethany Usher this week revealed she was wrongly arrested because a source failed to remember giving her access to a voicemail message.
By Press Gazette | 14 Mar 2013
Four journalists were arrested today in connection with a suspected conspiracy to intercept telephone voicemails at Mirror Group Newspapers, according to Scotland Yard.
By Peter Preston | 25 Feb 2013
Press freedom, with inexorable logic, is the right to publish stories I disapprove of just as much as stories I wholly endorse.
Neil Wallis (Reuters)
By Dominic Ponsford | 25 Feb 2013
Former News of the World executive editor Neil Wallis has spoken out about the “political arrest” which put his life in limbo for the 21 months he was kept on police bail.
By Bethan Haf Marsh | 21 Feb 2013

Police and Crime Commissioner for Surrey Kevin Hurley has warned that "we are all going to be less safe" as a result of the ongoing police crackdown on journalists and their paid sources in the police and elsewhere.

By Dominic Ponsford | 15 Feb 2013
The Met Police has confirmed an escalation into its Operation Elveden bribes probe after yesterday arresting a chief superintendent for contact with journalists where no money changed hands.
By Press Gazette | 13 Feb 2013
The six former News of the World journalists arrested today in a new police hacking probe have been named According to Press Association they are understood to be Jules Stenson, Matt Nixson, Rav Singh, Jane Atkinson, Polly Graham and Rachel Richardson. Richardson and Atkinson both currently wo
News International headquarters at Wapping. Credit: Reuters
By Andrew Pugh | 13 Feb 2013
The arrest of six former News of the World journalists this morning could result in a new wave of civil claims, according to a lawyer acting for more than 100 alleged victims. The Met said the six had been arrested for alleged offences that took place between 2005-06 that they were separate from
By Press Gazette | 13 Feb 2013
Officers from Operation Weeting have arrested six former News of the World journalists in relation to the phone-hacking investigation.
Credit: Reuters
By Andrew Pugh | 12 Feb 2013
The Conservative’s plans for a Royal Charter do not go far enough and are more “Leveson-defiant” than Leveson compliant, according to press reform group Hacked Off.

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