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US to Launch Legal Action on Phone Hacking

Work on case to begin within week: UK lawyer

(Newser) - Official proceedings against News Corporation are about to extend across the pond. Legal action over the company’s phone hacking scandal will take place in New York City, a British lawyer to many of the hacking victims tells the AP . He has hired Norman Siegel to fight the case against...

Rupert Murdoch's News International Offers Milly Dowler Family Millions in Phone Hacking Scandal

 News International 
 Offers Dead Girl's 
 Family $4.7M 
phone hacking scandal
Sep 19, 2011 2:49 PM CDT

News International Offers Dead Girl's Family $4.7M

But the phone-hacking victims may want more

(Newser) - The price for illegal phone hacking has just skyrocketed for Rupert Murdoch. Seeking to settle a high-profile hacking case against Milly Dowler, a 13-year-old girl who was murdered in 2002, News International has offered her family roughly $4.7 million—a third of which would go to charity. But sources...

Fox Censors Phone Hack Jibe at Emmies
 Fox Censors 
 Phone-Hacking 
 Bit at Emmys 
Emmy Night
Sep 19, 2011 1:24 AM CDT

Fox Censors Phone-Hacking Bit at Emmys

Alec Baldwin pulls videotaped skit after joke is axed

(Newser) - Alec Baldwin squashed his videotaped appearance on last night's Emmy Awards after Fox axed his joke about the phone hacking scandal at newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., Fox's parent company. Baldwin demanded his entire videotaped bit, which was to air at the beginning of the...

James Murdoch Gets Round 2 Vs. Parliament

UK also summons Les Hinton to testify

(Newser) - James Murdoch will be recalled for a second grilling before Britain's Parliament, a senior lawmaker investigating the phone hacking scandal said today. John Whittingdale told Sky News that his committee was "beginning to reach the end of its deliberations" but wanted to tie up "one or two...

16th Suspect Arrested in Phone Hacking Scandal

35-year-old man not yet identified by police

(Newser) - British police say they've arrested a 16th suspect in their investigation of phone hacking at the now-defunct tabloid News of the World. The 35-year-old man, whose name was not released, was arrested at his home this morning. None of the 16 suspects has yet been charged, and one has...

Ex-News Corp Execs: We Investigated Hacking

Bosses searched 2K emails following accusation of wider hacking

(Newser) - James Murdoch was well aware that News of the World's phone hacking scandal went beyond a rogue reporter, and he failed to act, News Corp's former legal chief testified today. Tom Crone says Murdoch authorized a $1.1 million settlement with a hacking victim based on an email...

Murdoch Kid's Godfather: Tony Blair

Which could be problematic, given phone-hacking scandal

(Newser) - Wendi Deng Murdoch may be no one to trifle with when there's a foam pie involved, but octogenarian hubby Rupert is probably wishing she had shut her piehole on this one: Seems that during an interview with Vogue, Mrs. Murdoch let slide that former British PM Tony Blair is...

As Scandal Widens, NotW's Hollywood Writer Arrested

Arrest renews concerns that NotW reporters hacked phones in America

(Newser) - A former News of the World journalist who covered the United States from Los Angeles for several years was arrested today in London for his role in the ongoing phone-hacking scandal , reports the Guardian . The arrest of James Desborough further raises questions about whether NotW hacked phones in the United...

NotW Reporter's Letter Blows Lid Off of Top-Level Cover Up

Goodman: hacking was 'widely discussed'

(Newser) - A 4-year-old letter by News of the World's disgraced royal reporter—who went to jail and was fired for his admitted role in the phone hacking scandal—contends that senior figures at the newspaper and at News International knew phone hacking was widespread and sanctioned, reports the Guardian . The...

FBI Expands News Corp Probe Beyond 9/11

Investigators looking into a pattern of misconduct at media giant

(Newser) - The FBI has expanded its investigation into News Corp beyond just claims that News of the World journalists hacked into the phones of 9/11 victims . It's now looking into past claims of misconduct by the media giant, reports the Independent . Specifically, investigators are revisiting a lawsuit filed against News...

Murdoch: I'm Sticking as News Corp Chief

Mogul announces strong results for media empire

(Newser) - The phone-hacking scandal that killed the News of the World hasn't made much of an impact on News Corp's bottom line—or on Rupert Murdoch's place at the top. "The board and I believe I should continue in my current role as chairman and CEO,"...

Source: Murdoch Still Paying Ex-CEO

Rebekah Brooks told to 'travel the world,' then come back for new job

(Newser) - Rebekah Brooks resigned as chief executive of News International amid the phone hacking scandal, but apparently that doesn't really mean anything. A source tells the Telegraph Brooks is still on the company payroll, although Brooks herself won't comment. “My understanding is that Rupert [Murdoch] has told her...

Guardian Journo: I Hacked Phones, Too

Sought out 'bribery and corruption,' not 'tittle tattle'

(Newser) - In a sort of odd pot-meets-kettle situation, a Guardian investigations editor who was on the team that helped blow the lid on the News of the World scandal himself admitted to hacking ... in 2006. Following NotW royal editor Clive Goodman’s guilty plea, David Leigh wrote that he had hacked...

McCartney Going to Cops Over Reported Phone Hack

Former Beatle appalled by 'horrendous invasion of privacy'

(Newser) - Paul McCartney plans to contact police over ex-wife Heather Mills' claim that a Daily Mirror journalist hacked into his voicemail messages, reports Reuters . After finishing his US tour and returning to Britain, "I am going to talk to the police because apparently I have been hacked," McCartney said....

Heather Mills: Mirror Hacked My Phone

Piers Morgan implicated in phone-hacking scandal

(Newser) - Heather Mills and Piers Morgan are at the center of the latest twist in the British phone-hacking scandal. Mills claims that a senior journalist at the Daily Mirror admitted hacking into her voicemail while she was dating Paul McCartney in 2001, and called her up to quote from a message...

Stuart Kuttner, Another Ex-News of the World Editor, Arrested
Another
Former NOTW
Editor Arrested
Aug 2, 2011 10:37 AM CDT

Another Former NOTW Editor Arrested

Stuart Kuttner was the face of the tabloid for decades

(Newser) - British police have arrested yet another former News of the World employee in connection with its phone hacking investigation. This time it’s ex-managing editor Stuart Kuttner, who for 22 years served as the public face and perennial defender of the tabloid, the Guardian reports. The 71-year-old went in for...

NY Post Staff Told To Keep Documents in Hacking Probe

News Corp expects inquiry to grow

(Newser) - New York Post staffers have been told to preserve any documents that may relate to phone hacking or payoffs to officials, as News Corp. prepares for a probe into its UK operations to reach across the Atlantic. Post editor Col Allan sent a memo to staff yesterday asking them to...

Murdoch Largesse: NOTW Crew Offered Work in Siberia

Former staff of shuttered tabloid say they're getting shafted

(Newser) - News of the World staffers were promised they'd be taken care of, but it's turned out to be very cold comfort. The entire crew found themselves out on the street when owner Rupert Murdoch's (now busted) editor Rebekah Brooks announced a shutdown of the tabloid amid the...

James Murdoch to Stay BSkyB Chairman

Position seen in jeopardy after phone-hacking testimony questioned

(Newser) - James Murdoch will keep his job as chairman of British Sky Broadcasting thanks to a unanimous decision by the company’s board, an insider tells Bloomberg . His position had been questioned after former executives rejected parts of his testimony before Parliament on the phone hacking scandal. “The role of...

Cops: NotW May Have Spied On Grieving Mom

Murdoch-owned tabloid had crusaded on Sara Payne's behalf

(Newser) - News of the World has been linked to another shocking case of phone hacking—and this might be an even bigger betrayal. Police have informed Sara Payne that she was on a list of people seized from a private investigator employed by NotW, Reuters reports. The twist: The paper’s...

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