Hacking inquiry – Hacked off

by Brian Cathcart The New Yorker’s recent long profile of the Daily Mail contained a passing reference to something that may be worthy of a little more attention than it has received. Noting that the editor of the Mail on Sunday, Peter Wright, had stepped down, writer Lauren Collins observed: “His replacement, Geordie Greig, is [...]

Nobody wants to fight a national newspaper for two years to prove libel. But that is exactly what happened after Juliet Shaw, then a freelance PR consultant, was approached to appear in a Daily Mail article on women moving from city life to the country. Looking for a fresh start, Juliet had moved back to Walney [...]

The editor in chief of the Daily Mail has returned to the Leveson Inquiry today to answer questions about actor Hugh Grant Paul Dacre was questioned by David Sherborne, counsel for the core participant victims, over a Mail on Sunday article claiming a “plummy-voiced executive” leaving messages on Grant’s phone had caused the breakdown of [...]

The editor in chief of the Daily Mail has been recalled to give evidence before the Leveson Inquiry this week. Lord Justice Leveson said he expected Paul Dacre, who appeared before the inquiry yesterday, to answer further questions about issues relating to Hugh Grant. He is due be asked about a Mail on Sunday story [...]

The editor in chief of the Daily Mail has defended a statement accusing Hugh Grant of “mendacious smears” against his newspapers. Paul Dacre said Grant had attempted to discredit Associated Newspapers, owners of the Mail and Mail on Sunday, by telling the Leveson Inquiry he believed his phone had been hacked by journalists. Dacre said [...]

There was no collusion between newspaper editors and the industry regulator, a former director of the Press Complaints Commission has told the Leveson Inquiry.  Tim Toulmin, director of the PCC from 2004 to 2009, was questioned today over the relationship between PCC chairman Sir Christopher Meyer, Les Hinton, former executive at News International and Daily Mail [...]