Met probes claims that Sun paid some public officials more than £10k a year Source familiar with News Corp internal inquiry says it has found ‘serious suspected criminality over a sustained period’ Lisa O’Carroll, guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 15 February 2012 The Scotland Yard investigation into alleged illegal payments by Sun journalists to police and other public … Continue reading
When the News of the World was closed by Rupert Murdoch as a result of the Hackgate scandal, most of its readers simply gave up reading a Sunday newspaper altogether: News of the World readers ‘vanish’ as they stop reading newspapers The latest newspaper readership figures suggest that a huge number of people have stopped … Continue reading
Al Jazeera scores another victory in the information war Fraser Nelson Now that Gaddafi has been killed, which television station will the world turn to? I suspect that, right now, Al Jazeera will be on in No.10 and the White House, and indeed television sets across Asia and India. At a time when the BBC … Continue reading
For those of you studying journalism and for those of us who are concerned by corruption in government, media and business, the phone-hacking scandal involving Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World is a story you really ought to know about. If you missed it, then The Guardian’s wallchart is a useful visual which maps out … Continue reading
