In July 2009 Nick Davies of the Guardian began to report new allegations of phone hacking at News of the World. Voicemail interception by the Sunday red-top wasn’t a new story, but these specific allegations were – despite the Press Complaints Commission finding otherwise. In the time since, media attention on the scandal has fluctuated; at various points it seemed that Rupert Murdoch’s media empire would escape relatively unharmed by the Guardian’s revelations. Last week the most dramatic events since July 2009 took place. The closure of the 168 year old News of the World may not be the climax of the scandal, however – the phone hacking story continues. This week’s media law round up concentrates on the media coverage around voicemail interception, News of the World’s closure and Murdoch’s BSkyB bid. For a story that so many people said wasn’t a story, the ramifications are far-reaching. The most comprehensive archive of stories can be found at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/phone-hacking
Phone hacking – legal issues
- RPC Privacy>> Public inquiries into privacy and press regulation
- panGloss>>The Idiot’s Guide to Why Voicemail Hacking is a Crime
- Press Gazette>>The Times: Phone-hacking as bad as MPs’ expenses
- Press Gazette>>Mulcaire: ‘I didn’t understand I had broken the law’
- The Lawyer>> News International turns to Matrix silk over Met payment claims
Phone hacking – call for public inquiry
- Inforrm>>Hacked Off response to Prime Minister’s statement on phone hacking scandal
- Out-Law.com>>Government announces inquiry into UK press
- Charlie Beckett>>A massive moment for media and politics in Britain
- Inforrm>>Hacked Off launches at the House of Lords – Thais Portilho-Shrimpton
- David Allen Green>> Tabloids and the abuse of power
- Press Gazette>>Cameron: There will be phone-hacking public inquiry
- LSE MediaPal>>Hacked Off? Petition for an independent inquiry into phone hacking scandal
- Inforrm>>Hacked Off: the Campaign for a public inquiry into phone hacking
- MST>> Hacked Off: Campaign for a Public Inquiry into Phone Hacking
Phone hacking – BSkyB deal
- Out-Law.com>>News of the World closure could influence proposed BSkyB takeover, Government says
- Ofcom>> Statement on Fit and Proper
- Bloomberg>> Miliband Calls for News Corp. to Drop BSkyB Bid
- FT>> Lib Dems could back plan to delay BSkyB takeover
- BBC>> BSkyB hit by takeover bid fears
Phone hacking – Arrests and allegations
- Tabloid Watch>> Recommended reading: phone hacking denials
- Sunday Times>> Twelve face jail over hacking (£££)
- Press Gazette>>Former NoW editor Andy Coulson arrested
- Press Gazette>>Met investigating up to 4,000 phone-hack victims
- Charlie Beckett>>News of the World Executives – how did they ‘not know?’ Guest Blog
- Press Gazette>>The Times: Five phone-hack journalists to be arrested
- Press Gazette>>Hacking debate: NoW targeted police investigators
- Press Gazette>>Former NoW editor Coulson ‘paid police for information’
- Press Gazette>>Phone-hacking: 7 July families may have been hacked
- RPC Privacy>> Phone hacking scandal reaches a new plane
- Press Gazette>>Brooks ‘shocked’ by phone-hack claims but won’t resign
- Press Gazette>>Milly Dowler parents to sue over phone-hack claims
Phone hacking – NOTW closure
- Tabloid Watch>> ‘Giving you the inside track’
- David Allen Green>> A Reuters writer gets the law wrong on News of the World
- David Allen Green>> Closing the News of the World makes no legal difference
- Inforrm>>Phone Hacking and the Closure of the “News of the World”
- Index on Censorship>> News of the World: The paper that died of shame?
- Charlie Beckett>>The Boldest PR Move Of Modern Times? Murdoch Closes News of the World
- Daily Mail>> Rebekah Brooks: News of the World staff take a parting shot in crossword
- BBC News>> Social media v the News of The World
Phone hacking – regulation
- Index on Censorship>> Making a courtroom drama out of a media crisis
- Inforrm>>Phone Hacking and the Press: do we now need statutory press regulation?
- Press Gazette>>PCC insists that its work will go on pending review
- Inforrm>>The bonfire of the vanities: the Tabloid Press and the PCC – Tim Lowles
- Press Gazette>>David Cameron sounds death knell for PCC
- Press Gazette>>Ed Miliband: Scrap the Press Complaints Commission
- Out-Law.com>>PCC will review its rules amidst phone hacking scandal
- Index on Censorship>> Don’t forget, it was good journalism that exposed phone hacking
- Press Gazette>>MPs: Phone-hack inquiry should review the PCC
- Index on Censorship>> Britain’s media must start policing itself
- Charlie Beckett>>After the News of the World admit hacking Milly Dowler’s Phone We Need A Media Commission – Not Self-Regulation
- Press Gazette>>PCC chair Buscombe: News International lied to us
- Paul Cockerton>> Any replacement for the Press Complaints Commission must go beyond newspapers
Phone hacking – event
Phone hacking – Guardian coverage
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/phone-hacking
- News of the World axed
- Andy Coulson arrested
- Email deletions investigated at NI
- News of the World closes – as it happened
- Deciphered: NoW closure announcement
- Shock, tears and anger as staff fear a conspiracy
- Colin Myler – ‘an old-fashioned newspaper guy’
- Dan Sabbagh: Murdoch takes the initiative
- Roy Greenslade: Hacks pay the price of hacking
- How hacking allegations derailed Coulson’s career
- Full list of the victims identified so far
- Bereaved families of armed forces targeted
- Missing Milly Dowler’s phone hacked by NoW
- Families of 7/7 victims ‘were targets of hacking’
- Video: News of the World – the denials
- The denials: from Murdoch to the Met
- Brooks: Inconceivable I knew of Dowler hack
- Murdoch, 2010: No evidence of widespread hacking
- Met police refuse to reopen phone-hacking inquiry
- Brooks, 2009: ‘Guardian has misled the public’
Best of the rest (non-phone hacking)
- Inforrm>>Harassment and injunctions: Cheryl Cole – Natalie Peck
- Index on Censorship>> Age of insecurity
- Out-Law.com>>FOI requests grow to numbers not seen since laws’ introduction, says Government
- Press Gazette>>Mirror’s Ferdinand story was a ‘gross invasion of privacy’
- RPC Privacy>> Disclosure of documents in privacy litigation
- HTFP>> Libel committee debates importance of ‘reputation’
- Press Gazette>>West Ham to take legal action against Sunday Times
- David Higgerson>> The council where they like to say ‘I sue’
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