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Six arrested in new ‘News of the World’ hacking probe
Police arrested six current or former journalists on Wednesday in a new probe into alleged phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch’s now-closed News of the World tabloid, Scotland Yard said. Investigators had identified a “further suspected conspiracy” by staff at the paper in 2005 and 2006 which was separate to the…
Judge sets Murdoch’s ‘News of the World’ phone-hacking trial for September 2013
The first trial stemming from the phone-hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch’s now-defunct News of the World tabloid is to begin in September 2013, a judge ruled on Wednesday. Judge Adrian Fulford made the ruling after several defendants including former News of the World editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson appeared…
British police charge former News of the World editor with hacking
LONDON — British police on Thursday formally charged former tabloid editor Rebekah Brooks with phone hacking in a long-running press scandal which has struck at the heart of the country’s institutions. Police last week charged Prime Minister David Cameron’s ex-media chief Andy Coulson and six other current or former employees…
Rupert Murdoch ruled ‘unfit’ to run global company
Rupert Murdoch showed “wilful blindness” over phone hacking at his News of the World tabloid and is unfit to run a majorinternational company, MPs said in a long-awaited report Tuesday. The 81-year-old tycoon’s British newspaper wing, News International, also misled parliament during its inquiry into the scandal at the tabloid, which Murdoch closed down…
Murdoch says ‘someone took charge of a cover-up’
Rupert Murdoch said on Thursday that there was a “cover up” over phone hacking at the News of the World tabloid but that it was kept hidden from him and senior executives in his media empire. “There’s no question in my mind that, maybe even the editor but beyond that, someone took charge…
Retired police officer said he was personally followed by News of the World surveillance team
Lisa O’Carroll, guardian.co.uk The News of the World “jeopardised” the hunt for the Ipswich serial killer in 2006 after it hired former special forces soldiers to follow a police surveillance team tracking suspects, the Leveson inquiry has heard. Dave Harrison, a retired officer with the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca),…
Six arrested in Murdoch tabloid phone-hacking probe
Detectives investigating phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World arrested six people on Tuesday on suspicion of perverting the course of justice, London police said. Five men aged between 38 and 49 and one 43-year-old woman were arrested in dawn raids in London and other areas in southern…
Murdoch eyes two million sales for Sun on Sunday
Rupert Murdoch said he wanted his new Sun on Sunday tabloid to sell well over two million copies as the paper intended to replace the scandal-hit News of the World was about to roll off the presses. The benchmark would make the new edition comfortably the most-read weekly newspaper in Britain, topping the 1.9 million…
First Sun on Sunday to be printed next weekend
A new Sunday edition of Rupert Murdoch’s top-selling tabloid The Sun will hit the shelves this weekend, the paper said, seven months after the closure of its scandal-ridden sister title. “Rupert Murdoch said during his visit on Friday that a new Sunday title would be published ‘very soon’ – and that is a…
British police probe another Murdoch newspaper for hacking
Police are investigating The Times over claims that it hacked emails, it emerged Thursday, following the scandal over phone hacking at its sister paper the News of the World. The revelation follows the admission by the editor of The Times, James Harding, to an inquiry into press ethics last month that one of…
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