In June 2011, no one would have believed that the Murdochs could lose control of their international media empire. Now, things are not so certain.
Created by multimediajournalism on 22/07/2011
Last updated: 21/11/11 at 16:44
Thurlbeck reveals in-depth how he says he proved that the "For Neville" email was not for him and how he believes News of the World management ignored a dossier of evidence which he compiled and which he believes could have saved the paper.
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=48263&c=1
Lord Leveson said his task could be summed up in one simple question: “Who guards the guardians?”
Opening the hearing, he stressed that the freedom of the press was “fundamental” to the UK’s democracy and way of life and he had “no wish” to stifle freedom of speech.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/2011/11/15/leveson-inquiry-opens-115875-23562496/
When News International counsel Rhodri Davies QC addressed the inquiry this morning he said the company had not had an opportunity to view all the Mulcaire notes – but suggested the allegation that 28 journalists were involved in phone-hacking was wide of the mark.
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=48251&c=1
Lord Leveson said his task could be summed up in one simple question: “Who guards the guardians?”
Opening the hearing, he stressed that the freedom of the press was “fundamental” to the UK’s democracy and way of life and he had “no wish” to stifle freedom of speech.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/2011/11/15/leveson-inquiry-opens-115875-23562496/
New York, N.Y.— Vanity Fair contributing editor Sarah Ellison reports that “The [Murdoch] siblings had been in family counseling with a psychologist over the issue of succession” since before last February.
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/11/Murdoch-Clan-Met-with-Family-Therapist-to-Discuss-News-Corps-Future
The Parliamentary committee investigating phone hacking at the News of the World has published a series of internal memos that appear to show senior executives at News International were made aware of a “culture of illegal information access" at the paper as far back as 2008.
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=48152&c=1
Fury over James Murdoch's chairmanship of BSkyB did not stop him accepting a £1,300 pay rise as the broadcaster took a £16m hit for its aborted takeover by News Corporation, where he is deputy chief operating officer.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/8856674/James-Murdoch-gets-pay-rise-despite-News-Corp-row.html
Rupert Murdoch's son James is a busted flush. The votes against him at the News Corporation annual meeting signal that the chances of him heading his father's company have virtually disappeared.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/markets/article-24002473-why-i-believe-its-all-over-for-james-murdoch.do
James Murdoch's future at News Corporation looks increasingly precarious as shareholders delivered a damning verdict on his tenure amid widespread criticism of his handling of the hacking scandal.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/oct/24/james-murdoch-news-corp-shareholders-vote?newsfeed=true
British lawmaker Tom Watson grilled News Corp.CEO Rupert Murdoch about covert surveillance techniques by the company as News Corp. held its first shareholders meeting following a phone-hacking scandal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6__scISEzRc&feature=player_embedded
James Murdoch is facing further questions about how much he knew of the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World after evidence emerged that he had been told it was not just the work of a single “rogue reporter”.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8837751/James-Murdoch-knew-phone-hacking-was-widespread-MPs-told.html
It takes a lot to shock Kelvin MacKenzie. But the moment the Metropolitan police laid in front of him the documentary evidence that his phone had been hacked he felt violated.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2011/sep/28/phone-hacking-kelvin-mackenzie?CMP=twt_gu
Former News of the World chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck is taking News International to an employment tribunal claiming he was unfairly dismissed for whistleblowing, it emerged today.
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=47953&c=1
Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson has launched legal action against the now defunct newspaper's publisher News Group Newspapers "regarding the termination of the payment for his legal action".
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=47937&c=1
The former News of the World executive employed by the Metropolitan Police was secretly paid more than £25,000 by News International during his time at Scotland Yard, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8785470/Phone-hacking-News-International-paid-Neil-Wallis-while-he-was-at-Scotland-Yard.html
The family of the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler have been offered £3 million in damages from News International after the publisher of the News of the World admitted her phone had been hacked.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8775568/Phone-hacking-Milly-Dowler-family-set-for-3-million-News-International-payout.html
Former News of the World legal manager Tom Crone was subjected to one of the most gruelling sessions of questioning yet from MPs on the culture select committee investigating phone-hacking. Here we provide a lengthy and only slightly edited extract from a dramatic period of questioning on Tuesday afternoon this week
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=47836
Jailed News of the World royals editor Clive Goodman was paid £140,000 to avoid him making damaging claims about phone-hacking in public at an employment tribunal, former News International executives have told MPs.
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=47820&c=1
Former News of the World editor Colin Myler and ex News Group Newspapers legal chief Tom Crone reiterated claims that James Murdoch was told about a damning email that undermined the company's "rogue reporter" defence against phone-hacking.
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=47822&c=1
Rupert Murdoch and his son, James, are to be questioned about the phone hacking scandal under oath in the High Court.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8730063/Phone-hacking-judge-to-question-Rupert-and-James-Murdoch-under-oath.html
Andy Coulson, the former editor of the News of the World who has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in phone hacking and bribing the police, received several hundred thousand pounds from News International after starting work as the Conservative Party's Director of Communications in July 2007.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14624167
(Reuters) - News Corp's senior management is starting to think about what the company might do if James Murdoch stepped aside, sources inside and close to the global media empire said.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/08/18/uk-newscorp-idUKTRE77H61J20110818
Steve Coogan leads battle to reveal whether News of the World ordered hacking of Elle MacPherson and five other public figures
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/19/glenn-mulcaire-phone-hacking?CMP=twt_gu
Rupert Murdoch group admits in annual report it is 'not able to predict the ultimate outcome or cost' related to phone hacking
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/18/news-corp-phone-hacking-scandal
James Desborough was arrested for the alleged phone hacking.
The charge is believed to relate to behaviour prior to his 2009 promotion as the newspaper's Los Angeles editor.
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2011/s3297036.htm
A letter written by former News of the World Royal reporter Clive Goodman, jailed after admitting hacking phone messages, has revealed the extent and knowledge of phone hacking at the paper.
http://jonslattery.blogspot.com/2011/08/goodman-blows-whistle-on-phone-hacking.html
Former director of legal affairs at News International Jon Chapman has accused James Murdoch of giving "very misleading" evidence to MPs at a select committee hearing on 19 July.
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=47709&c=1
News Corp. reported $1.352 billion in total segment operating income in during April-June of this year, an improvement of almost $400 million over the same period a year ago, the company reported Wednesday after the close of U.S. markets.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/0811/News_Corp_posts_strong_earnings.html
Former News of the World executive arrested by appointment on Wednesday over phone-hacking allegations
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/11/phone-hacking-greg-miskiw-bail
Jon Snow and Conservative MP apologise for false claims about the former News of the World and Mirror editor
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/29/piers-morgan-apologies-louise-mensch
Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator at the heart of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, has said today that he only ever acted on the instruction of his employers.
http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/glenn-mulcaire-i-followed-the-news-of-the-world-s-orders/s2/a545407/
It is "very possible" News International chairman James Murdoch will be recalled to give evidence to the culture, media and sport select committee, chairman John Whittingdale said today.
http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/phone-hacking-mps-could-recall-james-murdoch/s2/a545401/
Sara Payne, whose eight-year-old daughter Sarah was abducted and murdered in July 2000, has been told by Scotland Yard that they have found evidence to suggest she was targeted by the News of the World's investigator Glenn Mulcaire, who specialised in hacking voicemail.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/28/phone-hacking-sarah-payne
A 71-year-old man, named in news reports here as Stuart Kuttner, former managing editor of the News of the World, was arrested on charges of conspiracy to intercept communications and corruption when he voluntarily appeared for questioning at a central London police station.
http://www.latimes.com/la-fg-britain-phone-hacking-arrest-20110803,0,6390428.story
As Murdoch's News Corporation teeters under the weight of a phone-hacking and bribery scandal that promises to get worse before it gets better, Chinese state media are reveling in the unseemly spectacle of it all.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/MG26Ad01.html
RUPERT MURDOCH is trying to offload his Australian media business to his son Lachlan but Murdoch junior is not buying, according to the biographer Michael Wolff.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/murdoch-wants-lachlan-to-buy-australian-papers-20110723-1hu6i.html#ixzz1T7XKp2ti
http://www.smh.com.au/national/murdoch-wants-lachlan-to-buy-australian-papers-20110723-1hu6i.html
The board of British Sky Broadcasting, the satellite broadcaster of which Mr. Murdoch is chairman, convenes on Thursday for the first time since the scandal erupted, as regulators continue their inquiry into whether the hacking scandal means the broadcaster should continue to be considered “fit and proper” to hold a broadcasting license. A day later, members of the parliamentary committee investigating the scandal are to meet to consider whether to ask for more information from Mr. Murdoch and whether to call him and former executives back in front of them to answer additional questions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/world/europe/25hacking.html
WASHINGTON, July 24 (UPI) -- Eyes are riveted on Britain where Rupert Murdoch is up to his neck in the phone-hacking and police bribery scandal, but on this side of the Atlantic the question is whether the media mogul or any of his crew violated U.S. law.
The law getting the most attention is the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, with its broad scope and ferocious penalties that can reach all the way into the most sacred of corporate inner sanctums.
Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/07/24/Under-the-US-Supreme-Court-Murdoch-scandals-shadow-reaching-the-United-States/UPI-78641311492600/#ixzz1T7Vhzvab
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/07/24/Under-the-US-Supreme-Court-Murdoch-scandals-shadow-reaching-the-United-States/UPI-78641311492600/?spt=hs&or=tn
The company’s decision to close News of the World will not end the scrutiny of the newspaper’s practices by the police, courts and Parliament and by a public panel of inquiry that Mr. Cameron has promised to appoint.
Together, these investigations seem likely to make for an inquisition that could run for years, causing further erosion in the credibility of the Murdoch brand and costing News International millions of dollars in potential legal settlements.
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/rupert_murdoch/index.html
Claims that James Murdoch knew three years ago that phone hacking at the News of the World was not confined to a single "rogue" reporter have been referred to the police.
Labour MP Tom Watson said he was contacting Scotland Yard after two former senior executives at the paper publicly contradicted Mr Murdoch's evidence to the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee earlier this week.
If the allegations by former editor Colin Myler and former legal manager Tom Crone were correct, he said, Mr Murdoch could face investigation for conspiracy to pervert the
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/mp-contacts-met-over-murdoch-claims-2318751.html
Evidence on phone hacking given to MPs by News International chairman James Murdoch has been called into question by two former executives at the firm.
Mr Murdoch told the culture committee he had not been "aware" of an email suggesting the practice went wider than a "rogue" News of the World reporter.
But ex-NoW editor Colin Myler and ex-NI legal manager Tom Crone have now said they "did inform" him of the email.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14242763
• James Murdoch 'misled' culture select committee
• Questions mount over Coulson's mid-level security check
• Sun features editor sacked over his work at NotW
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/21/phone-hacking-scandal-live-coverage
In the wake of the hearings, News International suspends legal funding for Glenn Mulcaire. A judge orders police to reveal any phone hacking evidence related to Jemima Khan and Hugh Grant, the latter of which secretly recorded a former News of the World journalist describe the full extent of phone hacking. David Cameron names the panelists for the forthcoming phone hacking inquiry, headed by Lord Justice Leveson. The Prime Minister reverses his earlier stance and says he regrets hiring Andy Coulson as his spokesman.
The Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee holds a hearing with former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson, former Assistant Commissioner John Yates, James and Rupert Murdoch and former News International executive Rebekah Brooks. The committee's key questions cover the individuals' knowledge of phone hacking, police payments, use of private detectives and the withholding of potentially damaging information from senior officials and police.
Sir Paul Stephenson and John Yates appear first. Both are questioned on their handling of previous phone hacking inquiries and involvement with News of the World employees. Stephenson comments on his resignation statement, his relationship with Neil Wallis and his dealings with other reporters. John Yates says he attempted to brief David Cameron's chief of staff, Ed Llewellyn, on the phone hacking scandal and the involvement of Downing Street advisers in the case, but was refused.
After them, MPs question James and Rupert Murdoch for more than two and a half hours. Murdoch Sr asserts that the News of the World staff, not himself, was responsible for the consequences of phone hacking. During the proceedings, a protester attempts to attack Rupert Murdoch with a custard pie only to be fended off by Murdoch's wife Wendi Deng.
Rebekah Brooks follows. She is pressed by MPs on her knowledge of the News of the World's involvement with private detectives, police payments and covering the legal fees of Glenn Mulcaire and Clive Goodman. She denies having a close relationship with David Cameron.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8634176/Phone-hacking-timeline-of-a-scandal.html
John Yates resigns as Scotland Yard Assistant Commissioner. Cressida Dick is made head of counter-terrorism at the Metropolitan Police Service.
David Cameron cuts short his visit to Africa to prepare to address MPs over the phone hacking scandal.
It emerges that the IPCC has been asked to investigate four former and serving senior Metropolitan Police officers over their handling of the phone-hacking scandal.
Former News of the World showbusiness Sean Hoare is found dead in 'unexplained circumstances'.
Computer hacking collective LulzSec targets The Sun's website.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/18/news-of-the-world-sean-hoare
Brooks is arrested as part of an investigation into allegations of phone hacking and bribing police, sources familiar with the situation say.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/17/rebekah-brooks-arrested-phone-hacking-allegations
A direct apology from Rupert Murdoch is carried in all UK national newspapers under the headline "We are sorry."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14170756
Brooks resigns as chief executive of News Corp's British newspaper unit. Tom Mockridge, CEO of the company's Italian pay TV arm Sky Italia, will replace Brooks.
-- Les Hinton also resigns as chief executive of Murdoch's Dow Jones & Co., which publishes the Wall Street Journal.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2011/jul/15/phone-hacking-live-coverage
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