Phone hacking scandal: special report

Andy Coulson, Rebekah Brooks and three others will be charged in relation to alleged payments for information, the director of public prosecutions says.

Prime Minister David Cameron faces fresh embarrassment over text exchanges with former News International boss Rebekah Brooks, after messages between the pair were published by a newspaper.

Shares in newspaper group Trinity Mirror slump in early trading as four people, including former England boss Sven-Goran Eriksson, launch legal actions against its titles.

Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and five other former News of the World journalists will face trial for charges related to phone-hacking in September 2013.

Ofcom rules that Sky, which is partially owned by the Murdoch family, should hold onto its broadcast licence in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal.

As Elisabeth Murdoch prepares to address the Edinburgh International Television Festival, a leading media commentator speculates that there may soon be no Murdochs at the top of the family business.

David Cameron’s former spin doctor Andy Coulson was among seven people in court earlier charged in connection with the phone hacking scandal.

It’s all happening at the Aquatics Centre – or rather, outside it – as embattled Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt shakes hands with News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch. Channel 4 News’s Paraic O’Brien looks on.

Rebekah Brooks and David Cameron’s former communications adviser Andy Coulson are to be charged following an investigation into phone hacking at News International.

Summing up as the Leveson inquiry draws to a close, a lawyer tells the judge to ‘take a grip’ of the tabloid press.

The penultimate day of the Leveson inquiry hears that police are investigating alleged corrupt payments by journalists to prison officers in return for stories.

Two tabloid journalists are arrested by detectives investigating corrupt payments to public officials as part of the Metropolitan Police’s wider phone hacking inquiry.

MPs demand tighter controls of private investigators in the wake of the Glenn Mulcaire hacking scandal. Channel 4 News looks inside a shadowy industry.

Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire loses a supreme court fight to keep the identity of the person who instructed him to intercept messages a secret.

The police watchdog launches an investigation into the conduct of a senior police officer in relation to his alleged knowledge that Milly Dowler’s mobile phone was hacked by the News of the World.