Rebekah Brooks is appointed chief executive of Rupert Murdoch’s News UK, a year after being cleared of phone hacking charges.
News that George Clooney is to direct a movie about the phone hacking scandal has caused a buzz – but who should he cast? Channel 4 News’ Hayley Barlow has some tongue-in-cheek suggestions.
As David Cameron’s former communications chief Andy Coulson is sentenced to 18 months in prison for conspiracy to intercept voicemail messages, the prime minister says “no-one is above the law”.
The prime minister’s former spin doctor Andy Coulson faces a retrial over charges of plotting to bribe corrupt officials while he was editor of News of the World.
The acquittals of Rebekah Brooks and five other defendants at the phone hacking trial was good news for Rupert Murdoch. But what, asks Martin Hickman, is the longer-term outlook for his global empire?
A tabloid editor rises to the top, in the process laying bare the establishment’s corruption. But Richard Bean’s Great Britain bears no resemblance to any characters, living or dead.
Alex Thomson
It has been called the Trial of the Century and cost millions of pounds. But the phone hacking trial also raises serious questions about our political system.
David Cameron faces questions about hiring Andy Coulson, after his former spin doctor is found guilty of conspiring to hack phones while editor of News of the World.
When the phone-hacking allegations piled up and eventually took down the News of the World, Hayley Barlow was there to witness it all. Here is her story.
Jurors fail to reach verdicts on two remaining charges facing the PM’s former spin doctor Andy Coulson and ex-NoW royal editor Clive Goodman, as the phone-hacking judge tells off politicians.
Gary Gibbon
There was no shortage of people advising David Cameron to drop Andy Coulson after he won the 2010 election. But Coulson followed the Tory leader into No 10.
John Prescott, phone-hacked by the News of the World and Ian Kirby, the paper’s former political editor debate whether David Cameron vetted Andy Coulson before making him No 10 comms chief.
Former No 10 spin doctor Andy Coulson is found guilty of conspiring to hack phones while he was editor of the News of the World, but ex-colleague Rebekah Brooks is cleared.
News of the World editor, lover of Andy Coulson, protegee of Rupert Murdoch – the extent of Rebekah Brooks’s connections with the rich and powerful became clear during the phone-hacking trial.
The former editor of the News of the World Andy Coulson has told the jury in the hacking trial he was in a relationship with Rebekah Brooks until around the time he left the newpaper.