Given the current febrile atmosphere of the election campaign here in the UK, this is worth revisiting. A comprehensive report by the Media Standards trust shows how politically targeted phone hacking at News of the World was – mainly under the editorship of Andy Coulson (the only surviving phone records to confirm hacking date from a…
With considerable speed and grace, on Monday 16 March, Rupert Murdoch replied to Alastair’s letter, promising to co-operate with the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel inquiry, and explaining how News Corp‘s Management and Standards Committee have already complied with requests from the police and the IPCC. Questions about the role of News of the World and…
This is reposting of my Daily Beast article about the Panel Inquiry when it was announced in May 2013: in July 2014 British Home Secretary Theresa May named Baroness Nuala O’Loan of Kirkinriola, as chair of the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel. It is Britain’s biggest unsolved murder, and described by a senior police officer as “the…
