The latest updates from Channel 4 News as the phone-hacking scandal engulfing News International continues as fresh allegations come to light. Join the debate with #c4news.
Rupert Murdoch’s biographer tells Channel 4 News the tycoon “is in more trouble than he has ever been in” and questions News Corp’s entire future after another dramatic day in the phone-hack crisis.
All eyes turn to the arrival in the UK of News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch, who says his first priority is Rebekah Brooks, despite facing mounting pressure to drop his takeover bid for BSkyB.
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 Downing Street, the Met police and News International reel from the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, Channel 4 News asks if people power helped “keep the story alive”.
During a dramatic day David Cameron’s former spin doctor Andy Coulson is arrested, the Prime Minister announces two public inquiries into phone hacking, and police raid the offices of the Daily Star.
Riding in Oxfordshire or crisis in Wapping? Channel 4 News maps the circles of power around News International CEO Rebekah Brooks, as the News of the World prepares to go to print for the last time.
The News of the World axed, Andy Coulson arrested, David Cameron under intense pressure. Watch the Channel 4 News videos from a week that changed the British media forever.
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Our Political Editor says it’s not just the News of the World being put on the spot over phone-hacking. MPs are also asking questions about the police handling of the inquiry.
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.
Following News of the World revelations, Channel 4 has brought forward a Dispatches report which reveals new evidence of the scale of corruption allegations facing the Metropolitan Police.
James Murdoch announces the News of the World is to shut down because of the phone-hacking scandal. He says “wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad”. See how the story unfolded.
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”.
The Government’s decision on Rupert Murdoch’s takeover of BSkyB could be delayed after a flurry of responses, as the broadcaster’s share price falls in the wake of News of the World hacking claims.
Police reveal there are 4,000 possible victims of phone hacking as the IPCC tells Channel 4 News it may move to take full control of an inquiry into alleged payments by journalists to Met officers.