"that time, Yates made the decision that the phone hacking needed no further investigation, despite ""The Guardian"" alleging that the previous investigation had been inadequate. He was also paid to advise commissioner Stephenson and Yates. Rebekah Brooks, the former editor of the ""News of the World"" and former chief executive of News International, was arrested on 17 July 2011 on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications and on suspicion of corruption. She was arrested by appointment at a London police station by detectives working on Operation Weeting, the Metropolitan Police's phone hacking investigation, and Operation Elveden, the probe examining illicit"
"2011 News Corporation scandals In mid-2011, out of a series of investigations following up the ""News of the World"" royal phone hacking scandal of 2005–2007, a series of related scandals developed surrounding other News Corporation properties—where initially the scandal appeared contained to a single journalist at the ""News of the World"" (with the 2007 jailing of Clive Goodman and the resignation of then-editor Andy Coulson), investigations eventually revealed a much wider pattern of wrongdoing. This led to the closure of the ""News of the World"" on 10 July 2011, an apology by Rupert Murdoch in an advertisement in most British"
"the newspaper. These culminated in the revelation on 4 July 2011 that, nearly a decade earlier, a private investigator hired by the newspaper had intercepted the voicemail of missing British teenager Milly Dowler, who was later found murdered. A Scotland Yard spokesperson later admitted at the Leveson Inquiry that it had not been a private investigator who had deleted Dowler's voicemail. Amid a public backlash and the withdrawal of advertising, News International announced the closure of the newspaper on 7 July 2011. The scandal deepened when the paper was alleged to have hacked into the phones of families of British"
"for six months after pleading guilty; his co-conspirator ""News of the World"" royal editor Clive Goodman was sentenced to four months. Renewed controversy over the phone hacking scandal led to the closure of the ""News of the World"" in July 2011. He publicly apologised to those affected by his activities. By August 2012, the Met, using documents obtained from raiding Mulcaire's office, had identified 4,744 potential victims of phone hacking by ""News of the World"". Since police renewed investigations in 2011, 90 people have been arrested and 16 formally charged with crimes, including Mulcaire, in conjunction with illegal acquisition of"
"deference to the privacy of members of the Royal Family, editorial staff of ""The Sun"" claimed it was a move to test Britain's perception of freedom of the press. In the photos, which were published on the Internet worldwide, Prince Harry was naked. Following the ""News of the World"" phone hacking affair that led to the closure of that paper on 10 July 2011, there was speculation that News International would launch a Sunday edition of ""The Sun"" to replace the ""News of the World"". The internet URLs ""sunonsunday.co.uk"", ""thesunonsunday.co.uk"" and ""thesunonsunday.com"" were registered on 5 July 2011 by News"
"deceased British soldiers, and victims of the 7 July 2005 London bombings had also been hacked. The resulting public outcry against News Corporation and its owner Rupert Murdoch led to several high-profile resignations, including that of Murdoch as News Corporation director, Murdoch's son James as executive chairman, Dow Jones chief executive Les Hinton, News International legal manager Tom Crone, and chief executive Rebekah Brooks. The commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), Sir Paul Stephenson, also resigned. Advertiser boycotts led to the closure of the ""News of the World"" on 10 July 2011, after 168 years of publication. Public pressure"
"trial. Shortly after, Myler moved to the United States and was appointed executive editor of the ""New York Post"". He returned to London in 2007 to become editor of the ""News of the World"" and remained in post until the paper ceased publication on 10 July 2011. On 22 July 2011, Myler and former ""News of the World"" lawyer, Tom Crone, wrote to the Parliamentary Select Committee to clarify evidence given by James Murdoch in respect of the News International phone hacking scandal which had resulted in the closure of the ""News of the World"". They appeared before the Committee"
"magazine of the year. Some thought NOTW might have won the top award, Newspaper of the Year, if it were not for the phone-hacking saga. That was won by ""The Guardian"", which had investigated the hacking scandal. It was announced on 7 July 2011 that, after 168 years in print, the newspaper would print its final edition on 10 July 2011 following revelations of the ongoing phone hacking scandal, with the loss of 200 jobs. The paper announced that all profits from the final edition – 74 pence out of the £1 cover price – would go to ""good causes"","
"authorisation, Maxwell had used hundreds of millions of pounds from his companies' pension funds to shore up the shares of the Mirror Group, to save his companies from bankruptcy. The News International phone hacking scandal is an ongoing controversy involving the ""News of the World"" and other British newspapers published by News International, a subsidiary of Murdoch's News Corporation. Employees of the newspaper were convicted of engaging in phone hacking, police bribery, and exercising improper influence in the pursuit of publishing stories. Advertiser boycotts contributed to the closure of the ""News of the World"" on 10 July, ending 168 years"
"Notable scoops include the 2011 News International phone hacking scandal, in particular the hacking of murdered English teenager Milly Dowler's phone. The investigation led to the closure of the UK's biggest selling Sunday newspaper, and one of the highest circulation newspapers in the world, the ""News of the World"". The newspaper also released news of the secret collection of Verizon telephone records held by US President Barack Obama's administration in June 2013, and subsequently revealed the existence of the PRISM surveillance program after it was leaked to the paper by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. In 2016, it led the investigation"
"registration details and computers. He was also alleged to have commissioned burglaries on behalf of journalists. In June 2011 ""The Guardian"" newspaper, calling for a public inquiry into the ""News of the World"" phone-hacking scandal, focused its criticism of the parent company News Corporation's handling of accusations of criminality within the organisation on the newspaper's use of Jonathan Rees's investigative services. Rees's activities were described as a ""devastating pattern of illegal behaviour"", and far exceeding those of any of the other investigators commissioned by News Corporation who used illicit means to target prominent figures. They included unauthorised access to computer"
"said that Murdoch has ""questions to answer in Parliament,"" a day after former top executives of the ""News of the World"" accused the News Corporation executive of giving ""mistaken"" evidence. In November 2011, British newspapers reported that Murdoch had resigned as chairman of News Group Newspapers, the holding company above ""The Sun"", ""News of the World"" and Times Newspapers Ltd, itself owner of ""The Times"" and ""The Sunday Times"". News Group Newspapers is the company subject to a series of lawsuits, all related to the phone hacking scandal. James Murdoch's resignation was also said to be related to the 12"
"James Murdoch closed the ""News Of The World"" in July 2011. In 2011, he was asked to assist with enquiries by UK officers from Operation Weeting, who were investigating editorial and management staff over suspicions of phone hacking. Newspaper reports confirmed that Desborough's arrest was printed on the Guardian's news website, before it actually took place. Later that day, an officer Peter Cripps from Operation Weeting was arrested at his desk over suspicions of leaks to The Guardian. On that same day, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers, head of the Operation Weeting, inquiry into phone hacking at the News Of"
"national newspapers, and the withdrawing of News Corporation's bid to take over the majority of BSkyB shares it did not own. Investigations continued into what the company and individuals at the company knew of the phone hacking and when, as well as into other issues, including questions around police bribery. Since police renewed investigations in 2011, 90 people have been arrested and 16 charged with crimes in conjunction with illegal acquisition of confidential information, many if not most of them employees or agents of News Corp. In a September 2010 interview broadcast on 7 July 2011, on the BBC Radio"
"to open up more national sporting events to bids from BSkyB and move them away from the BBC, to open up the cable and satellite infrastructure market, and to reduce the power of their regulator, Ofcom. I rejected those policies."" As a result of the furore over phone hacking – including all main parties in the UK Parliament agreeing on a motion to block the bid and the deal being referred to the Competition Commission – the News Corporation takeover proposal for BSkyB was dropped on 13 July 2011. In light of the phone hacking revelations, the UK media regulator"
"2011. James maintained that until late in 2010 he was unaware that more than one ""rogue reporter"" from the ""News of the World"" tabloid had been involved in phone hacking. This statement was challenged by the formal legal manager and editor for the newspaper, who claimed they had informed James of the ""Transcript for Neville"" email, a potential ""smoking gun"" indicating several of the newspaper's journalists may have been involved, during the settlement negotiations with Gorden Taylor in 2008 and alerted him to the potential liability if this document became public. On 22 July 2011, Britain's prime minister, David Cameron,"
"full control over the Asian sports network. In January 2013, News Corp. attained 54.5% majority control of Sky Deutschland. On 4 February 2013, News Corporation announced the sale of IGN and its related properties to the publishing company Ziff Davis. News Corp. had planned to spin off IGN as an independent company, but failed to do so. In July 2011, News Corp closed down the ""News of the World"" newspaper in the United Kingdom due to allegations of phone hackings. The allegations include trying to access former Prime Minister Gordon Brown's voice mail, and obtain information from his bank accounts,"
"failures of the police investigation would go on to form part of the wider scandal in 2011. In August 2006, the ""News of the World""s royal editor, Clive Goodman and a private investigator, Glenn Mulcaire, were arrested by the Metropolitan Police, and later charged with hacking the telephones of members of the royal family by accessing voicemail messages, an offence under section 79 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. On 26 January 2007, both Goodman and Mulcaire pleaded guilty to the charges and were sentenced to four and six months imprisonment respectively. On the same day, it was"
"Coulson resigned as Chief Press Secretary to David Cameron, the Crown Prosecution Service began a review of evidence it had, and the Met renewed its investigation into phone hacking, something it had declined to do since 2007. During this period, revelations of unpopular invasions of privacy inflamed public opinion, leading to resignations of senior journalists, media executives and police officials and to reinvigorated investigations of wrongdoing. The first renewed Met investigation was titled and began in January 2011. It was focused on the illegal interception of voicemail . Between 45 and 60 officers began looking over the 11,000 pages of"
"had any knowledge of phone hacking at the ""News of the World"", or that he knew Glenn Mulcaire, the private detective at the centre of controversy. However, the Crown Prosecution Service said in December 2010 that it had determined that there was insufficient evidence to charge Coulson over allegations that he was aware of phone-hacking at the publication. The CPS said that witnesses interviewed by Metropolitan Police – including those who had previously made allegations through media outlets – had not been willing to provide admissible evidence. ""The Guardian"" reported on 7 July 2011 that Coulson was to be arrested"
"as the paper's investigations editor, became the first Mirror Group Newspapers journalist to admit to phone hacking when he pleaded guilty at Westminster Magistrates' Court. The trial began after he had contacted the police voluntarily in 2013. A spokesman for Trinity Mirror said the company would not be making a comment on Mr Johnson's conviction. On 13 February 2015, Trinity Mirror published a public apology to ""all its victims of phone hacking"" on page two of ""The Daily Mirror"". It also set aside a further £8m to cover both the cost of settling future phone hacking compensation payments to victims"
"A suspended reporter who worked at the ""Sunday Mirror"" and then the ""News of the World"" was claimed to be involved. A Channel 4 ""Dispatches"" programme interviewed Marsden and it was revealed that the reporter in question, had been suspended for phone hacking, although he denied it. It was the first time that a newspaper other than the ""News of the World"" had been cited in connection with allegations of phone hacking. In May 2011, Marsden wrote on his Blog, www.paulwbmarsden.blogspot.com, an article about the debate on public interest vs privacy in which he mentioned the allegations that Ryan Giggs"
"2010, News Corporation launched a takeover bid for the remaining shares in the company. There was widespread opposition to the bid, on the grounds that it would give NewsCorp too dominant a position in the British media. The bid was withdrawn in July 2011 following the News International phone hacking scandal. The British Office of Communications (Ofcom) launched an enquiry that same month to determine whether BSkyB should continue to hold a licence to broadcast. In September 2012, Ofcom ruled that BSkyB could retain its licence. On 12 July 2011, former British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, claimed that BSkyB's majority"
"January 2016, Murdoch became the chairman of Sky, Britain's subscription broadcaster. In July 2017, Murdoch became an independent director on the board of Tesla. On October 8, 2018 Murdoch left Sky after Comcast took the majority control of the company. On 7 July 2011, James Murdoch announced the closure of the British tabloid newspaper the ""News of the World"" in the wake of a phone hacking scandal. On 19 July 2011, along with his father, Rupert, he appeared at a hearing of the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee. He appeared once again before the same committee on 10 November"
"or controversial stories published in ""The Sunday Times"" include: In July 2011, ""The Sunday Times"" was implicated in the wider News International phone hacking scandal which primarily involved the ""News of the World"", a Murdoch tabloid newspaper published in the UK from 1843 to 2011. Former British prime minister Gordon Brown accused ""The Sunday Times"" of employing ""known criminals"" to impersonate him and obtain his private financial records. Brown's bank reported that an investigator employed by ""The Sunday Times"" repeatedly impersonated Brown to gain access to his bank account records. ""The Sunday Times"" vigorously denied these accusations and said that"
"this country do more for its people than any other newspapers in the world"". Coulson resigned on 26 January 2007 over the ""News of the World"" phone hacking affair which would several weeks later see the jailing for four months of the paper's Royal correspondent Clive Goodman. Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, remunerated by the newspaper, was given a custodial sentence of six months. On 21 July 2009 Coulson appeared in front of the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee and denied any knowledge of the phone hacking scandal, saying ""my instructions to the staff were clear –"
"that appeared to be the end of the News of the World royal phone hacking scandal. In July 2009, ""The Guardian"" newspaper published a series of allegations that a culture of phone hacking went far beyond the single case of Goodman and Mulcaire's hacking of the royal household. It was alleged that a much wider range of people across different areas of public life, including the former deputy prime minister John Prescott, the Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, politicians Tessa Jowell and Boris Johnson, publicist Max Clifford and even Rebekah Brooks, then editor of the ""News of the World""'s sister"
"the scandal. Three journalists on the newspaper were initially arrested: Ian Edmondson and Neville Thurlbeck on 5 April and James Weatherup on 14 April. The newspaper ""unreservedly"" apologised for its phone hacking activities during April 2011. On 4 July 2011, it was disclosed that potential evidence had been deleted in spring 2002 from the hacked voicemail account of Milly Dowler, then missing, but later found to have been murdered. On 13 December 2006, the newspaper announced that it was offering a record breaking reward of £250,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible"
"hacking beyond the criminal offences committed by the royal editor Clive Goodman. In 2011, within 10 days of the revelation of the hacking of Milly Dowler's phone, he resigned from his position at News International. He maintains that he did not see an internal report suggesting that phone hacking at the paper reached more widely than Goodman. Since police renewed investigations in 2011, 90 people have been arrested and 16 formally charged with crimes in conjunction with illegal acquisition of confidential information. Many of these people were employees or agents of News International during the period that Crone was the"
"World"" internal records. In June 2011, ""The Guardian"" newspaper, calling for a public inquiry into the ""News of the World"" phone-hacking scandal, focused its criticism of the parent company News Corporation's handling of accusations of crime within the organisation on the newspaper's use of Jonathan Rees's investigative services. Rees's activities were described as a ""devastating pattern of illegal behaviour"", far exceeding those of the other investigators commissioned by News Corporation, who used illicit means to target prominent figures. They included unauthorised access to computer data and bank accounts, corruption of police officers and alleged commissioning of burglaries, for information about"
"registry. In 2006, reporters at the paper used private investigators to illegally gain access to hundreds of mobile phone voicemail accounts held by a variety of people of interest to the newspaper. In 2007 the paper's royal correspondent, Clive Goodman, pleaded guilty to illegal interception of personal communication and was jailed for four months; the paper's editor, Andy Coulson, had resigned two weeks earlier. In 2009/2010, further revelations emerged on the extent of the phone hacking, and how it was common knowledge within the ""News of the World"" and its News International parent. According to a former reporter at the"
"in the News of the World phone hacking affair, including from MPs and Prime Minister David Cameron, who called for it to be replaced with a new system in July 2011. The Leveson Inquiry was set up and reported in November 2012 but there since has been deadlock over its proposals for self-regulation despite the establishment of a Royal Charter on self-regulation of the press. Lord Hunt was appointed Chairman of the Commission in October 2011. In December 2011 Lord Hunt announced his plans to replace the PCC with a new independent regulator. Hunt also wants to introduce a voluntary,"
"The ""News of the World"" was another tabloid newspaper owned by the company; however its closure was announced on 7 July 2011, following new evidence about a phone hacking scandal at the newspaper. The final issue was released on 10 July 2011. The ""News of the World"" was purchased by Murdoch in January 1969. ""The Sun"" was acquired in October 1969 from International Publishing Corporation. Murdoch states that he acts as a ""traditional proprietor""; exercising editorial control on major issues such as which political party to back in a general election or policy on Europe. ""The London Paper"" was the"