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In a career covering more than two decades, Rebekah Brooks has made a lasting impression on the tabloid media landscape, Channel 4 News looks back at her achievements.
The US Attorney-General says that investigations into News Corp’s American operations are progressing as the House of Lords prepars to debate media conduct.
The mogul was “humbled” and held his head in his hands as he apologised to the Dowlers. In another dramatic day in the phone hacking scandal, Rebekah Brooks has resigned from News International.
Rebekah Brooks resigns as Chief Executive of News International after almost two weeks of intense pressure over phone-hacking allegations.
The latest man arrested in the News of the World phone-hack inquiry worked as a PR consultant for the Met Police. Neil Wallis also dined with top officers Sir Paul Stephenson and John Yates.
A defiant Rupert Murdoch says he will challenge some of the “total lies” said in Parliament as he and his son are summoned to appear before MPs.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg calls for Rupert Murdoch to appear before MPs to answer questions about the phone-hacking scandal.
Is this what they always thought but never said? What they now think after thinking something different before? Or just what they think we think? It has been thoroughly confusing watching MP’s declare victory over Rupert Murdoch. A victory for parliament, they call it. That remains to be seen.
Gary Gibbon
As Rupert Murdoch withdraws his bid for BSkyB in the face of mounting political pressure, Political editor Gary Gibbon blogs on the future landscape for media ownership.
The Sun newspaper says it obtained a story about former prime minister Gordon Brown’s son having cystic fibrosis legitimately, as it fights to avoid getting drawn into the phone-hacking scandal.
As an MP calls for proper regulation of private detectives in the wake of the phone-hack revelations, one investigator tells Channel 4 News about the inner workings of his shadowy trade.
David Cameron joins the Liberal Democrats in support of Labour’s motion calling on Rupert Murdoch to drop his takeover of BSkyB in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal.
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has withdrawn its bid to take over BSkyB. News Corp CEO Chase Carey said it had become “too difficult to progress in this climate”.
Rupert Murdoch has been urged to abandon his takeover bid for BSkyB after it emerged that all three main parties will back a call for him to drop his plans.