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James Murdoch quits News International

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29 February 2012 Last updated at 09:39 ET Share this page James Murdoch remains in his job at parent company News Corporation James Murdoch has stepped down as executive chairman of News International, the UK newspaper business that owns the Sun and the Times titles. The newspaper publisher has been tainted by phone-hacking allegations. The [...]

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Editor: Hugh Grant smeared Daily Mail

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LONDON, Feb. 9 (UPI) — The top editor of the company that owns Britain's Daily Mail accused Hugh Grant on Thursday of trying to drag the newspaper into the phone hacking scandal. Paul Dacre, editor-in-chief of Associated Newspapers, testified before the Leveson Commission. The panel headed by Lord Justice Brian Leveson is trying to determine [...]

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Editor defends Hugh Grant claims

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Tuesday, February 07, 2012 » 01:43pm The editor-in-chief of the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday has defended its description of actor Hugh Grant's allegations about phone hacking as 'mendacious smears'. Paul Dacre, editor-in-chief of Associated Newspapers, told the Leveson Inquiry into press standards on Monday he would withdraw the statement if Grant withdrew [...]

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Murdoch To Pay Jude Law & Others Hacking Damages

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First Published: January 19, 2012 9:54 AM EST Credit: Getty Images LONDON, U.K. — Caption Jude Law attends the Peace One Day Celebration 2010 at Le Zenith, Paris, France, September 17, 2010Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper company on Thursday agreed to pay damages to 36 high-profile victims of tabloid phone-hacking, including actor Jude Law, soccer player [...]

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The Murdoch Cesspool

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Evenfor media observers who do Rupert Murdoch a favor by asking the press baron to clearan impossibly low bar of corporate behavior, recent revelations must havesome wondering if there are any lows Murdoch and hislieutenants haven't yet stoopedto. Britain'sepic phone hacking scandal that's destroyed Murdoch's reputation is now beingused as a wedge toopen a very [...]

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Phone hacking inquiry: Sienna Miller accused friends and family of media leaks

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24 Nov 2011 Sienna Miller accused her family and friends of selling stories to the media after journalists obtained intimate information about her by hacking her phone, the Leveson Inquiry heard today. The actress described how she felt "terrible" for even considering that those closest to her could betray her in this way. She told [...]

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RIP Google Buzz, Occupy Wall Streeters Not Evicted, Google Plans Music Store, Samsung's New Phone Due Oct. 19

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RIP Google Buzz. Google has announced a "fall sweep" of services to be shuttered over the coming months. Failed social media solution Google Buzz will be disappearing, as will Jaiku, iGoogle's social features and the University Research Program for Google Search. As previously announced, boutiques.com and like.com will be subsumed into Google Product Search. One [...]

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'Harry Potter' Author J.K. Rowling to Give Evidence in Phone-Hacking Inquiry

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LONDON — Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, Sienna Miller and Hugh Grant will be among 46 “core participants” who will have the right to give evidence in person at the Judicial inquiry into phone-hacking and media intrusion, Lord Justice Leveson’s inquiry said Wednesday. Rowling, Miller and Grant will be one of a group of celebrities, [...]

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Phone hacking: new Channel 4 comedy in 'satirical swipe' at scandal

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The hour-long programme, created by Guy Jenkin, the Drop The Dead Donkey writer, is set in a fictional paper in which staff engage in illegal practices to develop news stories. The show, which has the working title Hacks, will take a "satirical swipe" at the hacking scandal that has engulfed British media and politics this [...]

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Rolling Stones' Keith Richards Once Busted By News of the World

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Kevin Winter, Getty Images A smile must have crossed the mug of Rolling Stones' guitarist Keith Richards when the long-running tabloid News of the World was shuttered by media mogul Rupert Murdoch on Sunday amid the credibility-destroying phone hacking scandal and a well-documented history of predatory journalistic tactics. You see, celebs like Sienna Miller and [...]

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Rebekah Brooks: NoW told me phone hacking allegations were untrue

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20 Jul 2011 Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks said yesterday that she was repeatedly told by the News of the World that allegations of phone hacking by the paper's journalists were untrue. Appearing before the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee, she said it was only after she saw papers lodged in a [...]