Alex Thomson
Greg Miskiw: ‘the Prince of Darkness’ of phone hacking
‘I didn’t bring down the News of the World. The News of the World brought itself down. News International brought itself down by reacting the way they did.’
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Alex Thomson
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Former News of the World journalist speaks out
Greg Miskiw, the man who introduced phone hacking to the News of the World, has finally broken his silence, giving his first television interview since he came out of prison.
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Greg Miskiw: former News of the World journalist speaks out
Channel 4 News has obtained the first television interview with the journalist dubbed the “Prince of Darkness” for his role at the centre of the phone hacking scandal.
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Rebekah Brooks returns as Murdoch newspaper chief
Rebekah Brooks is appointed chief executive of Rupert Murdoch’s News UK, a year after being cleared of phone hacking charges.
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Election 2015: who do the pundits think will win?
With just under five weeks to go to the general election, who do the forecasters think will be left holding the keys to Downing Street?
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Former News of the World journalist admits hacking
Ian Edmondson pleads guilty to conspiring with hacker Glenn Mulcaire to listen to the voicemails of a host of celebrities, politicians and royalty between 2000 and 2006.
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Coulson charged with perjury in Sheridan case
Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson is formally charged with three counts of perjury in a hearing in Scotland.
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Phone hacking: Andy Coulson sentenced to 18 months
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”.
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Paul Mason
Why not everyone laughed at the NT’s hilarious new satire
In order to tell the truth about the world of tabloid editors and their political friends, you have to depict a world with no light or saving human virtues.
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What does the phone-hacking trial mean for News Corp?
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?
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Paul Mason
NT farce that sheds light on the murky world of tabloids
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.
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Alex Thomson
It’s not just phones that have been hacked, it’s British power
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.
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End of the World: what really happened behind Wapping walls
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.
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‘I suspect Murdoch regrets shutting NoW’
Former News of the World Managing Editor Stuart Kuttner tells Channel 4 News that the closure of the News of the World was a bleak day for the paper’s hardworking staff – and their readers.
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48 years
Prescott told Cameron: ‘Do not take this man’
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.