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Showing posts with label hacking scandal. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 12, 2012

PHONE HACKING RESOURCE


 

 

What happened when? Visualised

The phone hacking scandal has become so complicated we wanted to create the ultimate wallchart showing what happened when in the affair   READ MORE

 

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

UK police arrest Murdoch tabloid staff

Policeman also implicated in investigation into suspected payments by journalists to officers 

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updated 1/28/2012 4:14:39 PM ET

British police arrested four current and former staff of Rupert Murdoch's best-selling Sun tabloid plus a policeman on Saturday as part of an investigation into suspected payments by journalists to officers, police and the newspaper's publisher said. 


Police also searched the paper's London offices at publisher News International, News Corp.'s British arm, in a corruption probe linked to a continuing investigation into phone hacking at its now closed News of the World weekly tabloid.

News Corp.'s Management and Standards Committee, set up in the wake of the phone hacking scandal, said Saturday's operation was the result of information it had passed to police.

"News Corporation made a commitment last summer that unacceptable news gathering practices by individuals in the past would not be repeated," the committee said in a statement confirming the arrests of four "current and former employees" of the Sun. READ MORE