If the British press is out of control, what can be done?
Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson on the steps that could be taken post-Leveson to tackle corrosive UK journalism.
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Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson on the steps that could be taken post-Leveson to tackle corrosive UK journalism.
As the Leveson inquiry hears evidence from people who say their lives have been destroyed by dubious newspaper practices, Channel 4 News examines a changing media landscape.
Giving evidence at the Leveson inquiry, actor Hugh Grant has linked the Mail on Sunday to phone hacking and complained about the treatment of the mother of his baby.
Phone hacking by the News of the World was “wrong, shameful and should never have happened,” News International’s lawyer tells the Leveson inquiry.
Journalist Joan Smith gives her personal account of why she’s giving evidence at the Leveson inquiry, set up to look at the ethics and practices of the press in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal.
Private detective Glenn Mulcaire’s notebooks suggest he may have hacked phones for the Sun and the Daily Mirror as well as the News of the World, the Leveson inquiry hears. Andy Davies reports.
“The big question is: how much did James Murdoch know back in 2008? Did he try to buy Mr Taylor’s silence in a bid to stop the whole story coming out?”
Rupert Murdoch has made an uncompromising address at News Corp’s annual meeting to shareholders amid new allegations of computer hacking. Channel 4 News talks to one major investor.
Hugh Grant tells Channel 4 News he “doesn’t buy” the prime minister’s tough line on the media, and is looking for genuine reform in the wake of phone hacking scandal.
The Metropolitan Police now says it will not take action against The Guardian to force the newspaper to reveal its sources for stories on phone hacking.
The Prime Minister admits that he got too close to media proprietors in light of the phone-hacking scandal and calls for the relationship between politicians and the media to be “reset”.
The new English football season opens this weekend with the first games of the 2011-12 Football League, followed by the Community Shield at Wembley between Manchester City and Manchester United.
A former manager at the News of the World, understood to be Stuart Kuttner, has been quizzed over phone hacking. As Carl Dinnen reports, payments to Glenn Mulcaire would have gone through his office.
Washington Correspondent Sarah Smith tells of her pursuit of the former News of the World assistant editor Greg Miskiw – and her experiences of door-stepping the man who ordered so many door-steps.
Channel 4 News learns that media lawyer Mark Stephens may have been a target of phone hacking by the News of the World, as police investigate alleged attacks on the voicemails of solicitors.