Topic: Phone hacking scandal

Piers Morgan: Phone-Hacking Tutor

Reuters

It sounds a little like Piers Morgan wanted to one-up fellow journalists when his dinner conversation 10 years ago turned into an explanation of how to hack someone's voicemail.

By Dashiell Bennett

May 15, 2012

Rebekah Brooks to Be Charged in Phone Hacking Scandal

Former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks and her husband, Charlie, will be charged with the dastardly sounding offense of "perverting the course of justice" during the investigation of News Corp's. still ongoing phone hacking scandal. 

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By Dashiell Bennett

May 1, 2012

Parliament Members Say Rupert Murdoch Isn't Fit to Run His Own Company

A British parliamentary committee has released its report about the News Corp. phone hacking scandal and has laid the blame for the mess squarely at the feet of company leader Rupert Murdoch.

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By John Hudson

Apr 5, 2012

The British Media Outlets That Haven't Admitted to Hacking

With another admission of illegal hacking by the British press this morning, it's getting hard to differentiate the scandalized newspapers from the non-scandalized newspapers.

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By Eric Randall

Nov 28, 2011

Rupert Murdoch Allegedly Scammed a Young Charlotte Church

Cute British classical-singer-turned-pop-star Charlotte Church told a sad story to Parliament about how she tried to bribe Rupert Murdoch for favorable coverage in his papers with a free concert at his wedding but got the tabloid treatment anyway.

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By Dino Grandoni

Nov 21, 2011

Hugh Grant's Phone-Hacking Testimony

As if the whole phone-hacking scandal in Britain needed more cinematic flair, the Parliament's inquiry committee is interviewing actor Hugh Grant, who believes his voicemail was hacked.

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By Dino Grandoni

Nov 9, 2011

Stat of the Day

Only 11% of Possible Phone-Hacking Victims Have Been Contacted by Police

Apparently we've only seen the tip of News Corp.'s phone-hacking iceberg.

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By Dino Grandoni

Nov 8, 2011

News of the World Spied on Harry Potter!

A new report that the British tabloid News of the World hired a private eye to spy on the lawyers of phone-hacking victims just got a bit Darker (yes, with a capital D!).

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By Dino Grandoni

Nov 7, 2011

News of the World Also Spied on Its Victims' Lawyers

It turns out News of the World not only invaded the private lives of those it phone hacked, but also the lives of the lawyers hired to represent the phone-hacked in "an attempt to gather evidence for false smears about their private lives," The Guardian's Nick Davis reports.

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By Eric Randall

Oct 21, 2011

Murdoch Faces Down His Shareholders

Rupert Murdoch was repentant but stood his ground while facing angry critics at a shareholder meeting today.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Oct 11, 2011

British Parliament Will Hear from the Former Wall Street Journal Publisher

Les Hinton, will testify about the News Corp. phone hacking scandal later this month

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