Almost a decade ago I happened to be in a situation whereby I became privy to information which raised a red flag both legally and morally. At the time I didn't realise the extent of its significance and stored it away as a tale perhaps to be recounted one day in my memoirs or a fictionalised account of my experiences of the media world. When the phone hacking scandal first raised its ugly head a few years ago I immediately had flashbacks to those events and alarms bells rang off as to their potential significance. But when the scandal seemed to blow over as quickly as it erupted I didn't give it much further thought.

A former BBC executive has called for the creation of a new independent press regulator with more substantial powers to investigate unethical behaviou...

Alastair Morgan lives on the top floor of a high-rise building in north London, shielded by a network of locks, lifts, intercoms and buzzers. It makes...

I have never owned John Lennon's tooth, and after the NME ran with that story it ended up on 245 different websites all over the world. As I said, it was a funny story, but not true!

On Thursday the Metropolitan Police got back in touch regarding the News of the World hacking saga. The next stage for me is travelling to see them at the end of the week. So far all the information I've been told is the numbers found on the notebook of some 'journalist', and subsequently recognised as being mine, along with a postcode, which I also recognised as mine! One of the numbers was my old answerphone number, so let's see where this now goes - I can see this getting interesting...

A man, reported to be Sun reporter Jamie Pyatt, has been arrested in connection with allegations of corruption, the latest twist in the News of The Wo...

Beyond the headline grabbing revelations of phone hacking, this is the ethical rot that I urge you to consider Lord Leveson, because it undermines real journalism, it perverts social debate, it divides communities.

The Official Secrets Act 1989 (OSA) might seem like a particularly good idea to particularly ardent viewers of BBC 1's "Spooks" (unfortunately for the...

The great tabloid scandal of 2011 throws up one last point of order: what was actually in the messages that were hacked? And how does it feel when your privacy is invaded?

Steve Coogan recalls clearly the moment he decided to sue the News of the World. "What motivated me was seeing Andy Coulson [the paper's former editor...

PRESS ASSOCIATION - James Murdoch, the boss of News Corporation's UK arm, has refused to accept a six million US dollars (£3.7 million) bonus in the ...

The former managing editor of the News of the World has been rearrested on suspicion of phone hacking and inappropriate payments to police, according ...

James Murdoch may be recalled to parliament to give evidence on phone hacking, an MP has indicated, after new evidence was released by a select commit...

The Liberal Democrat MP, Simon Hughes, is to sue News International over phone hacking at the News of the World, he confirmed on Thursday. Hughes t...

Dick Fedorcio, the Director of Public Affairs and Internal Communication for the Metropolitan Police Service, has been put on a period of extended gar...

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- The comedian who threw a foam pie at Rupert Murdoch has had his jail sentence reduced on appeal. Jonathan May-Bowles, 26, plea...

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- An IT firm has told MPs it was aware of nine occasions when News International asked for emails to be deleted over the past 15 mo...

Whilst the Beeb faces this constant barrage of intimidation, it just carries on doing what it does best by serving the public. No matter what mud may be slung its way, our public broadcaster just keeps trundling on, as it has done for the past eighty-four years.