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The News International phone hacking scandal was a controversy involving the now-defunct News of the World and other British newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch. Employees of the newspaper engaged in phone hacking, police bribery, and exercising improper influence in the pursuit of stories. Investigations conducted from 2005 to 2007 showed that ...
The News Corporation scandal involves phone, voicemail, and computer hacking that were allegedly committed over a number of years. The scandal began in the United Kingdom, where the News International phone hacking scandal has to date resulted in the closure of the News of the World newspaper and the resignation of a number of senior members of the Metropolitan Police force.
Phone hacking by news organizations became the subject of scandals that raised concerns about illegal acquisition of confidential information by news media organizations in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia between 1995 and 2012. The scandal had been simmering since 2002 but broke wide open in July 2011 with the disclosure ...
A new Mr Bates vs The Post Office-style series about the News of the World phone hacking scandal is in the works, an investigative journalist who first uncovered the story has revealed ...
This is a list of key documents relating to the News International phone hacking scandal . Dates in parentheses indicate approximately when each document was created or obtained. Documents at Scotland Yard relating to the investigations of Jonathan Rees; (1987-) "Scotland Yard is believed to have collected hundreds of thousands of documents ...
Leveson Inquiry. The Leveson Inquiry was a judicial public inquiry into the culture, practices, and ethics of the British press following the News International phone hacking scandal, chaired by Lord Justice Leveson, who was appointed in July 2011. A series of public hearings were held throughout 2011 and 2012.
Renewed Investigations by Scotland Yard in 2011 led to dozens of arrests for activities related to the phone hacking scandal. This list of persons arrested in phone-hacking scandal is a chronological listing of individuals arrested in conjunction with the illegal acquisition of confidential information by employees and other agents of news media companies referred to as the "phone hacking ...
Andy Gray. Former Sky Sports pundit, ex-footballer. Warned by mobile phone company. 2006. Not named in indictment at trial. Has issued proceedings against the NOTW and Glenn Mulcaire for breach of privacy. Benedict Grant Noakes. Television producer, close friend of Paul McCartney and Heather Mills. Warned by police.