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Sales of the final edition of the News of the World jump 30 per cent as the Sunday tabloid apologises, telling its readers: “Quite simply we lost our way”.
News of the World editor Colin Myler tells staff they have made “enormous sacrifices” for their parent company News Corporation, as they prepare the tabloid’s last edition.
Gary Gibbon
“I believe both the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph rang in at the highest level to express their concern that David Cameron was blundering towards state regulation of an industry that must be left free.”
News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brooks tells staff at the News of the World the company will try to find them new jobs as the tabloid goes to the press for the last time this weekend.
As Andy Coulson is questioned by police about the News of the World phone hacking scandal, Channel 4 News takes a look at the former spin doctor’s controversial career.
David Cameron says he would have accepted the resignation of News International’s Rebekah Brooks, and takes “full responsibility” for hiring Andy Coulson who has been arrested.
Officers investigating the News of the World phone hacking scandal have searched the offices of another tabloid.
As it emerges that relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan may have had their phones hacked, the Royal British Legion drops the the News of the World as its campaigning partner.
The News of the World is to close because of the phone hacking scandal as the private investigator at the heart of the crisis tells Channel 4 News hack victims were chosen “by committee”.
Jon Snow
“This is a matter which touches many aspects of our public life – politics, policing, and media ethics – and potential conspiracies between several of them.”
The Prime Minister has described allegations that Milly Dowler’s phone was hacked as “truly dreadful”. The News of the World’s former editor, Rebekah Brooks, says she is “appalled” by the claims.
Milly Dowler’s family have been told by police that the News of the World may have hacked the phone of their daughter Milly while she was missing.
The Government says it is ready to accept the Murdoch-owned News Corporation takeover of BSkyB, but a Labour MP brands the move as a “seedy deal”.
The Daily Telegraph has been criticised by the Press Complaints Commission for sending undercover reporters posing as constituents to secretly tape ministers, namely Vince Cable.
Chancellor George Osborne is keen to promote progressive economic policies. But are such egalitarian impulses reflected in the backgrounds of his special advisers at the Treasury?