Hacking inquiry – Hacked off

by Brian Cathcart What does it take to get a corporate scandal on to the front pages of the mass-circulation papers? Business, after all, is abstract and dull, and you don’t sell tabloids with abstract and dull. What you need, by and large, is a bogey-man, a human lightning rod for outrage and mockery. Think [...]

by Brian Cathcart With one mighty leap, it seems, Rupert was out. One day his London journalists were reported to be in open revolt against him and the next he had apparently pulled off one of his masterstrokes and was firmly in the driving seat again. Murdoch has conceded very little. On the central issue, [...]

The brother of News of the World whistleblower Sean Hoare told the Leveson Inquiry phone hacking was allegedly routine at The Sun. Stuart Hoare told Leveson LJ about conversations he had with his late brother, Sean, during and after his time as a News International employee about phone hacking allegedly being widespread in both newspapers. [...]

Christopher Jefferies was one of the many victims of privacy intrusion by the press. Following his arrest in connection to Joanna Yeates’ murder, from which he was released without charge, Mr Jefferies saw his life exposed, facts twisted and a string of baseless accusations splashed all over the front pages of the tabloid press in [...]