Many of the abuses of press power heard at the Leveson Inquiry would not have happened without the industry dominance of News Corporation, the editor of the Guardian has said. Alan Rusbridger - who stood up in court today to deliver the closing submission of publisher Guardian News & Media Limited – said the Murdoch-owned News… Read more »
by Brian Cathcart Peter Hill was editor of the Daily Express for seven years, from the end of 2003 to early 2011. Among his claims to fame is that he edited the newspaper throughout the Madeleine McCann affair in 2007-8, overseeing coverage that led to a £550,000 libel pay-out by the group and to grovelling… Read more »
A crime reporter has told the Leveson Inquiry how he was asked to pay police officers for information when working for the News of the World thirty years ago. Jeff Edwards, now president of the Crime Reporters Association, said he was told by his news editor to bribe officers for information after failing to deliver… Read more »
The phone hacking investigation was not reopened because of a “closed mindset in the force”, a former Metropolitan Police commissioner has said. Sir Paul Stephenson told the Leveson Inquiry the Met developed a “fixed mindset and a defensive mindset” in 2009, when the original investigation was reviewed by Assistant Commissioner John Yates. He said there was a… Read more »
By Brian Cathcart As Corporal Jones might have said, they don’t like it up ‘em. The ruthless methods of mass circulation papers are being exposed at the Leveson inquiry as never before, so they are lashing out like cornered animals. Their attacks on the Guardian this week in relation to last July’s Milly Dowler story… Read more »
There is no evidence from Surrey Police’s records that messages on murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler’s mobile voicemail were deleted or caused to be deleted by private investigator Glenn Mulcaire or News of the World reporters. “So the story published by the Guardian on July 4 is a lie”, cry tabloids and broadsheets in unison. Well,… Read more »
