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Washington Post website jobs section hacked
WASHINGTON — The Washington Post said Thursday that a hacker had gained access to nearly 1.3 million email addresses and user IDs on its online jobs section. The Post said no passwords or other personal data were compromised in the attack on the jobs section of WashingtonPost.com which occurred last week.…
Murdoch to close News of the World over phone hacking scandal
British tabloid News of the World will print its last issue on Sunday, closing down after an investigation revealed it had participated in the phone hacking of celebrities, British politicians, the families of terrorist attack victims, dead soldiers and others. According to Sky News, the closure was announced on Thursday…
Murdoch paper ‘phone-hacked’ families of dead soldiers
The phone hacking scandal at the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid the News of the World deepened on Thursday after reports that relatives of dead soldiers may have been targeted. The families of troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan said they were appalled by reports in The Daily Telegraph that their phones…
CNN cancels Eliot Spitzer’s show
CNN announced Wednesday that it will cancel former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s 8 p.m. talk show, “In the Arena,” and instead move Anderson Cooper’s newscast from 10 p.m. EST into Spitzer’s former slot, the New York Times reported. Cooper’s newscast will be rebroadcast at 10 p.m. as well. “I’m…
UK Prime Minister Cameron backs call for investigation of newspaper’s phone-hacking scandal
Prime Minister David Cameron backed calls for a public inquiry into phone-hacking by the News of the World on Wednesday, amid claims that it targeted relatives of murdered children and victims of the London bombings. But he said police should first complete their investigations into “absolutely disgusting” claims about the…
Huffington Post launches British edition
LONDON — The Huffington Post launched a British edition on Wednesday, in the first expansion outside North America for its news and opinion website. The Huffington Post UK has hired a small team of full-time journalists to produce the website as it seeks to push into international markets following its…
Roger Clemens perjury trial begins
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The perjury trial of Roger Clemens begins on Wednesday with the selection of 12 jurors charged with deciding if the former baseball star lied when he said he never took drugs to boost his pitching as he aged. Clemens, 48, was indicted a year ago on charges he…
Tea Party Nation column warns of dangers of ‘non-European immigrants’
Former Washington Times columnist Eliana Benador, who was fired for writing a piece speculating that former Rep. Anthony Weiner had converted to Islam and was pushing a “socialist political agenda,” has found a new home for her controversial work: Tea Party Nation. RightWingWatch.org, a watchdog for conservative media that is…
Strauss-Kahn accuser sues NY Post for ‘prostitute’ report
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The hotel maid who accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault sued the New York Post and five of its journalists for libel on Tuesday for reporting that she was a prostitute. The 32-year-old Guinean immigrant accused the Post of publishing defamatory articles between…
Pressure on Murdoch over new phone hacking allegation
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron condemned the alleged hacking of a murdered schoolgirl’s voicemail by the News of the World, part of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, as the scandal closed in on a top News Corp executive and Murdoch protegee. That the prime minister should find time…
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