"shortly forced News Corporation to cancel its proposed takeover of the British satellite broadcaster BSkyB. The prime minister David Cameron announced on 6 July 2011 that a public inquiry, known as the Leveson Inquiry, would look into phone hacking and police bribery by the ""News of the World"", consider the wider culture and ethics of the British newspaper industry and that the Press Complaints Commission would be replaced ""entirely"". A number of arrests and convictions followed, most notably of the former ""News of the World"" managing editor Andy Coulson. Murdoch and his son, James, were summoned to give evidence at"
"On 6 July 2011, Prime Minister David Cameron announced to parliament that a public government inquiry would convene to further investigate the affair. On 13 July, Cameron named Lord Justice Leveson as chairman of the inquiry, with a remit to look into the specific claims about phone hacking at the ""News of the World"", the initial police inquiry and allegations of illicit payments to police by the press, and a second inquiry to review the general culture and ethics of the British media. On 20 July 2011, Cameron announced to Parliament the final terms of reference of Leveson's inquiry, stating"
"used by a major British Sunday newspaper (the title is now shut down) – the ""News of the World"" (was owned by NI). Now known as the (News International) ‘phone hacking affair’, the consequences for the British PMC and NI (as part of the world’s second largest media empire after The Walt Disney Company) are likely to be unfolding for some considerable time as new sectors of vulnerable members of British society subjected to the particular malicious practice are brought to light. The Parliamentary turmoil resulted in the UK government instituting a three-pronged public judicial examination into the relations and"
"Mulcaire. The House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee held hearings regarding phone hacking by news media companies in March 2007, in July 2009, and again in July 2011. The 2007 inquiry regarding ""Privacy and media intrusion"" began shortly after Goodman and Mulcaire were sentenced. It was focused on activity at ""News of the World"". On 6 March 2007, the then executive chairman of News International, Les Hinton, assured the Committee that a ""full, rigorous internal inquiry"" had been carried out and, to his knowledge, Goodman was the only person at ""News of the World"" that knew about hacking."
"News International phone hacking scandal The News International phone-hacking scandal was a controversy involving the now defunct ""News of the World"" and other British newspapers published by News International, a subsidiary of News Corporation. Employees of the newspaper were accused of engaging in phone hacking, police bribery, and exercising improper influence in the pursuit of stories. Whilst investigations conducted from 2005 to 2007 appeared to show that the paper's phone hacking activities were limited to celebrities, politicians, and members of the British Royal Family, in July 2011 it was revealed that the phones of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, relatives of"
"Conservative MPs who signed a letter to Theresa May urging her that the UK withdraw from both the European Single Market and the Customs Union. On 14 July 2005, he became the Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee. In this role he led the committee's 2009/2010 investigation into libel and privacy issues, including the News International phone hacking scandal after ""The Guardian"" first revealed the extent of the practice at the ""News of the World"". He was alleged to have warned members of the committee to consider not compelling former ""News of the World"" editor Rebekah Brooks"
"the wake of the News International phone hacking scandal, Ofcom came under pressure to launch an inquiry into whether the parent company of News International, News Corporation, was still the ""fit and proper"" owner of a controlling stake in the satellite broadcasting company British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB). On 13 July former Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged Ofcom to launch an investigation. On 15 July the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg stated that the Government would launch a review of laws on what constituted a ""fit and proper"" owner for broadcasting companies in the United Kingdom, and that anyone found not"
"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,"
"was announced that former parliamentary commissioner for standards Elizabeth Filkin would ""recommend changes to links between the police and the media, including how to extend transparency."" It was revealed that both John Whittingdale and Tom Watson may need to speak to James Murdoch again as the Commons culture select committee about recalling James Murdoch. An MP has released a letter from the now jailed journalist, alleging senior ""News of the World"" figures knew that the hacking scandal was going on, when the former royal editor, Clive Goodman, wrote his letter to News International as he appealed against his dismissal in"
"under whose direction the inquiry had been established, said that he welcomed many of the findings, but declined to enact the requisite legislation. Part 2 of the inquiry was to be delayed until after criminal prosecutions regarding events at the ""News of the World"", but the Conservative Party's 2017 manifesto stated that the second part of the inquiry would be dropped entirely, and this was confirmed by Culture Secretary Matt Hancock in a statement to the House of Commons on 1 March 2018. In 2007, ""News of the World"" royal editor Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire were convicted"
"responsible for helping the police and other bodies find out the facts about the ""News of the World"" phone hacking scandal. The MSC is chaired by Lord Grabiner and reports to Gerson Zweifach, General Counsel of the News Corp. Lewis was group general manager at News International in the UK, a post he held from September 2010. In September 2010 he joined News International, part of News Corporation and owner of ""The Sun"", ""The Times"", ""The Sunday Times"" and the ""News of the World"". He was appointed to the role of Chief Creative Officer in February 2013. News Corporation is"
"October 2013, Leveson was appointed President of the Queen's Bench Division, succeeding Sir John Thomas. In 1989 Leveson was the lead prosecution counsel at the trial of comedian Ken Dodd. Dodd was charged with tax evasion, but was acquitted at Liverpool Crown Court, despite seemingly strong evidence. It was announced on 13 July 2011 that Leveson would lead the public inquiry into issues of British press culture, practices and ethics raised by the News International phone hacking scandal. On 20 July, Prime Minister David Cameron announced that the scope of the inquiry had widened to include the BBC and social"
"in bringing the revelations about phone hacking into the open. Watson was concerned by alleged press misconduct, as were his colleagues Chris Bryant, the MP for Rhondda, Khalid Mahmood, MP for Birmingham Perry Barr, and Sion Simon, then MP for Birmingham Erdington. Watson joined the Culture, Media and Sport Committee in 2009, under the chairmanship of Conservative MP John Whittingdale, specifically to pose questions to leading figures in News International about the ethics at both ""The Sun"" and the ""News of the World,"" and allowing him to quiz Andy Coulson, who was director of communications for the Conservative Party, about"
"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"
"phone voicemail the News of the World had listened to, including an allegation (later disproven) that the paper had hacked and deleted messages from the phone of a murdered girl, Milly Dowler. This resulted in the withdrawal of advertising from the ""News of the World"" and its ceasing publication. Lord Leveson, a senior judge, was appointed in 2011 to conduct an inquiry into the ""culture, practices and ethics of the press."" In 2012 Lord Leveson issued a report that recommended replacing the old Press Complaints Commission (PCC). The Leveson Report recommended that if a new, voluntary regulatory body were to"
"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"
"journalism teaching at Kingston University, finally becoming professor there in 2006. From 2008-10, Cathcart was specialist adviser to the House of Commons Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport at a time when it was investigating press standards and the phone-hacking scandal. The Committee report was highly critical of News International (now News UK) and of the Press Complaints Commission (since abolished). From 2010, Cathcart blogged on the unfolding hacking affair, mostly for Index on Censorship, and in 2011, with Martin Moore, director of the Media Standards Trust, he launched Hacked Off to press for a public inquiry into hacking"
"Brian Leveson Sir Brian Henry Leveson (; born 22 June 1949) is an English judge, currently the President of the Queen's Bench Division and Head of Criminal Justice. Leveson chaired the public inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the British press, prompted by the ""News of the World"" phone hacking affair. Leveson was born in Liverpool, on 22 June 1949. He was educated at Liverpool College, a public school in Mossley Hill, Liverpool. He studied at Merton College, Oxford and was President of the Oxford Law Society. Leveson was called to the Bar at Middle Temple in 1970."
"2009–2011 News of the World phone hacking scandal investigations The ""News of the World"" phone hacking scandal investigations followed the revelations in 2005 of voicemail interception on behalf of ""News of the World"". Despite wider evidence of wrongdoing, the ""News of the World"" royal phone hacking scandal appeared resolved with the 2007 conviction of the ""News of the World"" royal editor Clive Goodman and the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, and the resignation of editor Andy Coulson. However, a series of civil legal cases and investigations by newspapers, parliament and the police ultimately saw evidence of ""industrial scale"" phone hacking, leading"
"Philip Williams. The Committee's findings, released in February 2010, were critical of News International executives for their “collective amnesia” and critical of the police for not pursuing ""evidence that merited a wider investigation."" After ""The Guardian"" publicized the 2002 hacking of Milly Dowler's phone, the Committee renewed hearings to follow up on the 2009 inquiry into press standards, privacy and libel. Again evidence was given by John Yates and News International executives, this time including Rebekah Brooks, James Murdoch, and Rupert Murdoch. By this time, there was substantial evidence from various sources that phone hacking had been widespread, that senior"
"news sources has been ongoing in Europe and Britain since about the 1850s. According to journalist Neville Thurlbeck, the British press has been practicing checkbook journalism for over 160 years. Related to this was a British ""phone hacking scandal"" in 2002, when it was learned that for years there had been illegal phone hacking, police bribery, and the exercising of improper influence in the pursuit of news stories. The hacking focused on celebrities, politicians, and members of the British Royal Family. Many criminal trials were being tainted when such payments were made or even promised. In one case, the UK"
"his role at the ""News of the World"". In July 2009, in evidence to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee inquiry into privacy and libel issues that also covered the phone hacking affair, ""News of the World"" editor Colin Myler placed on record that a sum of £700,000 was agreed to be paid to PFA chief Gordon Taylor by News International's head of legal affairs, Tom Crone. This was supported and agreed by Myler, with final approval given from News International executive chairman James Murdoch. On 24 February 2010, the Culture, Media and Sport Committee issued their report. It condemned"
"found deeply offensive. The slurs on the man were out of order."" She withdrew the proposal after encountering opposition from the Conservative-led coalition government. Jefferies gave evidence to the Leveson Inquiry, established by Prime Minister David Cameron to investigate the ethics and behaviour of the British media following the ""News of the World"" phone hacking affair. Jefferies told the inquiry that reporters had ""besieged"" him after he was questioned by the police; he said: ""It was clear that the tabloid press had decided that I was guilty of Miss Yeates' murder and seemed determined to persuade the public of my"
"to the closure of the ""News of the World"" on 10 July 2011. However, the affair did not end there, developing into the News Corporation ethics scandal as wrongdoing beyond the ""News of the World"" (including the United States) and beyond phone hacking (including paying police for information) came to light. The News of the World royal phone hacking scandal had raised evidence of victims being targeted outside the Royal Family, but this evidence did not lead to criminal proceedings. In lieu of criminal proceedings, several public figures commenced litigation against the ""News of the World""'s owner News International and"
"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"
"conventional or lawful realm. In response to the News International phone hacking scandal involving News of the World in the United Kingdom, a report was written to enact new media privacy regulations. The British author of the Leveson Report on the ethics of the British press, Lord Justice Leveson, has drawn attention to the need to take action on protecting privacy on the internet. This movement is described by Lord Justice Leveson as a global megaphone for gossip: ""There is not only a danger of trial by Twitter, but also of an unending punishment, and no prospect of rehabilitation, by"
"from May 2008. He took over the place previously held by the ""Daily Mail""'s editor-in-chief Paul Dacre, who had served on the body from 1999 to April 2008. The PCC issued two reports, in 2007 and 2009, which were compiled in ignorance of the significant information from the ""Mail"" group about the hacking of its journalists’ phones. According to ""The Guardian"" journalist Nick Davies, whose revelations had resulted in the ""News of the World"" phone hacking trial and subsequent conviction of Andy Coulson, this reinforced News International's ""rogue reporter"" defence. The PCC's 2009 report, which had rejected Davies' claims of"
"and made civil claims for invasion of privacy. By March 2010, News International had spent over £2 million settling court cases with victims of phone hacking. As information about these claims leaked out, ""The Guardian"" continued to follow the story. On 8 & 9 July 2009, the newspaper published three articles alleging that: When the ""Guardian"" articles were published, Metropolitan Police Service Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson asked Assistant Commissioner John Yates to look at the phone hacking case to see if it should be reopened. Yates reportedly took just eight hours to consult with senior detectives and Crown Prosecution lawyers"
"newspaper executives were aware of it sooner than had been claimed, and that Parliament had been misled. The Home Affairs Select Committee held hearings regarding phone hacking by news media companies beginning in July 2009 and in September 2010. Like the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee, the Home Affairs Select Committee questioned the Met's decision not to reopen the investigation ""following allegations that 27 other News International reporters had commissioned private investigators to carry out tasks, some of which might have been illegal."" The Met's assistant commissioner John Yates responded that he had only looked into the facts of"
"Culture, Media and Sport Committee that ""no additional evidence has come to light,"" five years after News International executives began claiming that phone hacking was the work of a single ""rogue reporter,"" ten years after ""The Guardian"" began reporting that the Met had evidence of widespread illegal acquisition of confidential information, and 13 years after the Met began accumulating ""boxloads"" of that evidence but kept it unexamined in bin bags at Scotland Yard. On 24 July 2012, charges were brought against eight former employees and agents of the ""News of the World"" including editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson. Of"
"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"
"IMPRESS IMPRESS is an independent press regulator in the UK. It was the first to be recognised by the Press Recognition Panel. Unlike the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), IMPRESS is fully compliant with the recommendations of the Leveson Inquiry. No national newspaper has signed up to the new regulator; most continue to be members of the unrecognised Independent Press Standards Organisation. IMPRESS's membership consists only of some small-circulation local newspapers and blogs. It is funded by Max Mosley. Its chief executive is Jonathan Heawood. In Spring 2011, News International began publicly admitting liability and paying compensation to people whose"
"a result of its failure to address the phone hacking scandal as it unfolded. The day in 2005 that the Met seized documents from Goodman and Mulcaire and arrested them for conspiracy to intercept communications without lawful authority, ""News of the World"" editors said they were stunned and vowed to conduct an internal investigation. According to Colin Myler's subsequent statement at the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee hearing, the firm of Burton Copeland was engaged in August 2005 ""to absolutely oversee the investigation to cooperate with police...a very thorough investigation took place where there was a thorough review of"