Phone Hacking Scandal

David Cameron Announces Full-Scale Inquiry Into Phone Hacking, Media Regulation and Police

Huffington Post UK | Posted 12.09.2011 | UK

Prime Minister David Cameron has announced "one inquiry in two parts" that will cover the phone hacking scandal and also encompass the relationship be...

News Corp and the Nuclear Option

Zoe O'Connell | Posted 11.09.2011 | UK Politics
Zoe O'Connell

When it comes to News Corp., politicians face the nuclear dilemma: "If we strike, will they strike back?

WATCH: News Of The World Scandal Gets The Taiwan Animation Treatment

The Huffington Post | Posted 07.09.2011 | UK

Journalists and news junkies aren't the only ones watching every development in the News Of The World phone hacking scandal. The Taiwanese animators a...

Andy Coulson Bailed Until October

Posted 07.09.2011 | UK

Andy Coulson, former spin doctor for David Cameron and ex-editor of News of the World, has been released from a London police station after being arre...

Rebekah Brooks Stays On At News International

Posted 07.09.2011 | UK

Rebekah Brooks, the News International chief will be staying on in her role despite mounting calls for her to step down. The embattled executive to...

Coulson Arrested As Phone Hacking Scandal Deepens

Huffington Post UK | Posted 07.09.2011 | UK

Andy Coulson, former communications chief to David Cameron and ex-editor of News of the World, has been arrested by police investigating phone hacking...

Phone-Hacking Brings Speeches Back to UK TV Screens

Max Atkinson | Posted 05.09.2011 | UK Politics
Max Atkinson

After years of writing and blogging about the reluctance of British television news programmes to broadcast much from speeches (e.g. HERE & HERE),...

Ken Livingstone Shifts Spotlight To Boris Johnson on NOTW Hacking

The Huffington Post | Dina Rickman | Posted 06.09.2011 | UK

Ken Livingstone has demanded Boris Johnson answers a series of questions on the phone hacking scandal. In an email sent to members of the Labour pa...

Watchdog To Review Press Regulation

Press Association | Posted 06.09.2011 | UK

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Newspaper watchdog the Press Complaints Commission has announced that it will launch a review of "all aspects of press regulation...

Royal British Legion Drops News of The World In Response To Hacking Allegations

The Huffington Post | Dina Rickman | Posted 06.09.2011 | UK

The Royal British Legion has dropped the News of The World as a campaign partner in response to allegations made in several newspapers that its report...

The Government Reviews Advertising Contracts With NOTW

The Huffington Post | Dina Rickman | Posted 05.09.2011 | UK Politics

The Government is reviewing its advertising contracts with News of The World in the wake of allegations it hacked into the phones of the families of d...

News Corp: A Good Empire

James Moran | Posted 06.09.2011 | UK Comedy
James Moran

No matter how insane and evil publications like News of the World appear to be -- according to "the facts" -- we can rest easy that noble News Corp empire is about to become a lot more powerful, thanks to Jeremy Hunt.

NOTW Scandal - Public Apathy Turns to Public Rage

Roy Greenslade | Posted 04.09.2011 | UK Politics
Roy Greenslade

In the lexicon of journalism the word "unprecedented" has reached cliché status. But I make no apology for using it to describe both the allegation against the News of the World that it hacked into a murdered girl's voicemail messages and the public response to it.

WATCH: Hugh Grant On Phone Hacking Allegations

Posted 04.09.2011 | UK

Hugh Grant, commenting on phone hacking, says he is repulsed but not surprised by the latest allegations made against the News of the World. "I was...