British Phone Hacking Scandal (Leveson Report)Jul. Former News of the World deputy editor Neil Wallis is acquitted of charges of conspiracy to hack telephones between 2. MOREJun. 4, 2. 01.
The News International phone-hacking scandal is a controversy involving the now defunct News of the World and other British newspapers published by News International. Phone hacking. Andy Coulson jailed for 18 months. The verdicts so far in the phone-hacking trial of News International staff and others. 4 July 2014. News of the World phone hacking scandal. It was the scandal that saw the demise of one of Britain's most well-known tabloid newspapers, and one that had ramifications. News about the British phone hacking scandal (Leveson Report), including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
British Judge David Burns clears former News of the World editor Andy Coulson of perjury charges in connection with his statements about tabloid's practice of eavesdropping on voice mail messages of public figures. MOREOct. Charles Brooks, husband of Rebekah Brooks, seeks to be reimbursed for legal costs of his defense after being acquitted from Britain's phone hacking scandal by claiming he was too 'stupid' to commit crime; is denied payment by Justice John Saunders, who rules that Brooks is not entitled to anything because of his clumsily suspicious behavior. MOREJun. Rebekah Brooks, former head of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper empire, is acquitted of all charges in Britain's phone- hacking trial; Brooks had come to symbolize freewheeling tabloid press and its proximity to power; Brooks's former lover Andy Coulson is found guilty of conspiracy to intercept voice mails, and is the only one of the seven defendants in the case to be convicted. MOREJun. British phone hacking case of Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, former lovers and tabloid editors of Rupert Murdoch's now- defunct weekly News of the World, heads to jury; the two face charges linked to illegal interception of voice mail messages and are also accused of condoning payments to public officials for information; jurors have up to a month to reach a decision. MOREMay. Clive Goodman, former royalty editor of The News of the World, testifies at long- running phone- hacking trial that he had listened to voice mails of former Kate Middleton, Prince William and Prince Harry. MOREMar.
Testimony of former tabloid editor Rebekah Brooks in her phone hacking trial offers a rare view into the skating- on- the- edge culture of popular press in Great Britain, one that fascinates and revolts Britons in equal measure; she is accused of condoning illegal interception of mobile phone voice mail messages as editor of The News of the World, sensational weekly that Rupert Murdoch shut down over scandal. MOREFeb. Rebekah Brooks is revealing tabloid- like details about her personal life during her trial in London on phone hacking charges; denies knowledge of the practice at the now defunct The News of the World, where she was top editor; her testimony makes her look fallible, like people once exposed by her paper, but also vulnerable. MOREFeb. Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper unit, testifies in court that during her time as editor of tabloid The News of the World she did not know about activities of private investigator who has admitted that he hacked phones on behalf of the newspaper. MOREFeb. E- mail disclosed at British phone hacking trial of Rebekah Brooks, former head of Rupert Murdoch's newspaper empire, suggests that former prime minister Tony Blair offered to act as an 'unofficial adviser' to Brooks and to Murdoch. MOREDec. Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, once friends, colleagues and lovers, are on trial in London on charges of illegally intercepting voice messages as editors at Rupert Murdoch's defunct The News of the World; Brooks, wealthy from a rich severance package, appears to be faring relatively better than Coulson, who is short of cash and out of work for nearly three years. MORENov.
Lawyer for Andy Coulson, former editor of defunct British tabloid News of the World, tells jury that Coulson never agreed to any illegal phone hacking at the newspaper; Coulson is on trial with his former boss and onetime lover Rebekah Brooks and six others on a variety of charges involving the tabloid's cellphone hacking. MORENov. Maureen Dowd Op- Ed column notes irony of the fact that British tabloid editors Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks had their secret affair exposed during trial in which they were charged with breaking the law to expose others' intimate secrets; reflects on the allure and romance of adultery and affairs in the wired world. MORENov. Jury in Britain's phone hacking scandal hears evidence that now defunct tabloid newspaper The News of the World hacked into Prince Harry's cellphone in 2.
MORENov. 1, 2. 01. Phone hacking trial of The News of The World editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson in Britain turns considerably seamier when the prosecution reveals they had an affair lasting more than six years, during the period at issue in the trial; both are charged with overseeing a pattern of phone hacking and other illegal efforts to obtain details of the lives of prominent people. MOREOct. British prosecution opens case at phone hacking trial, telling jury that four people involved with The News of the World had already pleaded guilty to phone hacking and that it will proven that illegal acts were 'a conspiracy' approved by some of those on trial now, including former editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. MOREFeb. Scotland Yard says six more journalists who previously worked for News of the World have been arrested on suspicion of hacking into cellphone messages, adding momentum to police investigation that has already cost Rupert Murdoch's newspaper empire in Britain hundreds of millions of dollars. MOREFeb. April Casburn, senior police officer in Scotland Yard’s counterterrorism command, is sentenced to 1.
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Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World tabloid in connection with phone hacking scandal. MORESep. Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, two senior former executives at newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch, appear in court in London facing charges relating to the phone hacking scandal convulsing parts of the British press. MOREAug.
Andy Coulson, the former communications director for British Prime Min David Cameron and a onetime top editor of tabloid News of the World, appears in court with six other people to face charges in the long- running hacking scandal. MOREJul. Decision by British prosecutors to lay criminal charges against eight of the most prominent figures in British tabloid journalism, including Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks, is a dramatic step toward exacting accountability for the tangled web of wrongdoing in Rupert Murdoch's London newsrooms; media analysts say that the newsroom culture that has gone untrammeled for years at British tabloids could be a casualty of a new culture of caution. MOREJul. Glenn Mulcaire, a private investigator who has been a central player in Britain’s phone hacking scandal loses a bid at the Supreme Court to remain silent about who commissioned him to intercept voice mail messages on behalf of The News of the World; he had argued that he had a right to remain silent about who commissioned him to avoid self- incrimination. MOREMay. Andy Coulson, a former tabloid editor in Rupert Murdoch’s media empire and later director of communications for Prime Min David Cameron, is arrested by the Scottish police and charged with lying under oath about whether he knew phone hacking was going on at the newspaper he edited, The News of the World. MOREMay. Andy Coulson, a former editor of The News of the World Sunday tabloid who later became British Prime Min David Cameron’s communications director, testifies at the judicial inquiry into the phone hacking scandal that has enveloped Rupert Murdoch's media empire; testimony does not reveal any intimate links between Murdoch's business interest and Cameron's government, as many had suspected. MOREMay.
British parliamentary panel's report on the News Corporation phone- hacking scandal concludes that Daily News editor Colin Myler misled them about his knowledge of the illegal behavior, putting him at risk of being cited for contempt of Parliament; Myler, a British citizen, was editor of News of the World until it was closed in 2. MOREApr. 1. 6, 2. British lawyer Mark Lewis is one of a small handful of attorneys who have led the civil litigation against News Corporation over suspected phone hacking at its now- closed News of the World tabloid; the scandal has not jumped to the United States, but Lewis is holding meetings in New York to look into filing at least three suits related to the hacking. MOREMar. Scotland Yard arrests Neville Thurlbeck, a former chief reporter for The News of the World, on suspicion of intimidating a witness, the first time the police have raised the specter of witness tampering in the course of their investigations; it could prove to be one of the most damaging chapters yet in the scandal enveloping Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid newspapers in Britain. MOREMar. Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, is arrested in London on suspicion of obstruction of justice in connection with ongoing investigation into phone hacking and other illegal activities at several News Corp newspapers; her husband, Charlie, a friend of Prime Min David Cameron, is also arrested. MOREFeb.
British tabloids eagerly print the story of Scotland Yard lending a retired police horse to former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks, during a period when Rupert Murdoch's tabloids were under investigation for illegal phone hacking; loan, while not illegal, demonstrates the cozy relationship enjoyed between Murdoch's papers and the police. MOREFeb. E- mail discovered in November 2.
News of The World's phone hacking scandal; document contains explosive information about the scale of the scandal, and sheds light on the intrigue surrounding James Murdoch, the company's heir apparent, and efforts to protect him from the scandal. MOREFeb. Scotland Yard formally acknowledges that it acted unlawfully in 2. The News of the World as it hacked into the cellphone voice mail messages of politicians, sports stars and other celebrities. MOREFeb.