There's a lot of explaining to do, and it's not just the phone-hacking anymore. British prosecutors announced brand-new, bribery-related charges against former Rupert Murdoch editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson on Tuesday.
Rebekah Brooks, the former CEO of News Corp.'s UK newspaper division and who is now charged in the News of the World phone hacking scandal, got an $11 million dollar severance package upon her departure, according to anonymous sources speaking with The New York Times's John F. Burns.
Prosecutors in Britain announced today that eight people, including former News of the World editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, will face criminal charges for their role in the News International phone hacking case.
As journalistic crimes go, phone hacking gets all the attention, but one former News of the World reporter describes techniques that make listening to voicemails seem like nothing.
What does Ina Drew, former J.P. Morgan executive at the center of the bank's recent loss, have in common with Rebekah Brooks?
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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.
If anyone is going to lose their job over the Leveson Inquiry, it's looking more and more like it's going to be culture secretary Jeremy Hunt.
As the focus of the Leveson Inquiry shifts from phone hacking to the relationship between journalists and politicians, former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks described a friendly relationship with David Cameron that also sounded pretty awkward.
Email messages released Tuesday indicate that News Corp. executives at least considered dispatching top editors of The Wall Street Journal Europe and The Times of London, both News Corp. holdings, to advocate the BSkyB deal.
Rebekah Brooks, the former CEO of News International has been arrested for a second time in the ongoing probe into corruption at Rupert Murdoch's British papers, along with her husband and four others.
After James Murdoch's resignation from News International, new revelations ranging from the attempted suicides of staffers to an executive-level conspiracy against the police are adding a macabre layer to an already twisted story.
Though you wouldn't know it from picking up some British newspapers today, the fact that one-time News Corp. editor Rebekah Brooks was loaned a retired police horse wasn't that a big deal.
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As the British investigation into corruption at Rupert Murdoch's News International reveals a "culture of illegal payments" at the Sun, news that Scotland Yard loaned one-time Sun editor Rebekah Brooks a police horse has the rest of the U.K. press crowing about an inappropriate connection with the cops.
Demi Moore is out of the hospital, Salman Rushdie's marriage proposal is still pending, and Bill Daley exits the castle.
Ruthlessly manipulative and downright obsessive, Vanity Fair's profile of Rebekah Brooks certainly isn't doing any favors to Murdoch's "Fantasy Daughter."
After outrage that she was still on payroll, news emerged that Brooks held dozens of directorships
Things went very well for James Murdoch; Rebekah Brooks on the other hand…
A phone given to the grieving mother of Sarah Payne may have been hacked
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Handing out gold, silver and bronze medals to Murdoch, Murdoch, and Brooks
News Corp.'s top executives appear at a hotly anticipated hearing before Parliament
Rebekah Brooks may walk away with more than $5.5 million
The former News of the World editor did not apologize about the phone hacking scandal
Exactly how did The Sun get a tip about the health of Gordon Brown's son?
Not even Noam Chomsky could've imagined such an implosion of political power in Britain
Rebekah Brooks' proofreaders miss the hidden parting shots
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