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British police drop bribery probe into Sun journalist

April 2, 2013 09:31
The crime editor of Britain's biggest-selling newspaper The Sun will face no further action after he was arrested on suspicion of bribing public officials for stories, police said on Tuesday. Mike Sullivan, 49, was arrested in January last year under Operation Elveden, one of three Scotland Yard probes launched in the wake of the 2011 phone-hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid. Sullivan, who was arrested at the same time as three other current and former journalists at The Sun -- which is also owned by Murdoch -- welcomed the decision.

UK jails two ex-policeman, prison officer for selling stories

March 27, 2013 17:31
A former policeman and a prison officer were jailed on Wednesday for selling information to Britain's biggest-circulation newspaper The Sun. Ex-constable Alan Tierney and Richard Trunkfield, who worked at a high-security prison, were jailed for 10 months and 16 months respectively by a judge at the Old Bailey central criminal court in London. Another unnamed ex-officer was sentenced to two years for misconduct.

British ex-policeman, prison officer jailed in hacking case

March 27, 2013 12:15
By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Two former policemen and an ex-prison officer were jailed on Wednesday for selling stories to Rupert Murdoch's tabloid the Sun, Britain's top-selling newspaper. The three men were convicted as part of a wide-ranging police investigation begun two years ago into claims journalists from Murdoch's now-defunct News of the World newspaper had hacked into mobile phone voicemail messages.

Murdoch attacks David Cameron over press regulation

March 21, 2013 12:46
By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - Media mogul Rupert Murdoch sharply criticised Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday for agreeing tougher press regulation, saying the new system was a "holy mess" and that Cameron had disappointed his supporters. Cameron struck a surprise deal on Monday with his junior coalition partners, the Lib Dems, and the opposition Labour party, that will allow a new regulator to be set up with the powers to levy large fines on newspapers and oblige them to print prominent apologies where appropriate.

Sun deputy editor charged over payments to public officials

March 20, 2013 12:00
By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - British police, investigating allegations of phone-hacking centred on Rupert Murdoch's newspapers, charged the deputy editor of his top-selling Sun tabloid on Wednesday with making illegal payments to public officials.

Bribery charges for ex-deputy editor of Britain's Sun

March 20, 2013 08:31
The former deputy editor of the Rupert Murdoch-owned British tabloid The Sun is being charged with authorising payments to public officials in return for information, prosecutors said on Wednesday. Geoff Webster was arrested a year ago as part of Operation Elveden, the police investigation into illegal payments to public officials set up after the phone-hacking scandal. Webster will be charged with two offences of conspiring to commit misconduct in public office, a statement from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.

Britain tries to reassure bloggers on new press rules

March 20, 2013 00:15
The British government has insisted that bloggers and posts on social media would not be caught by a new system of press regulation, but campaigners warned the new rules could be open to interpretation. Britain's newspapers are urgently considering whether to sign up to the new system agreed by political leaders on Monday in the wake of a phone-hacking scandal at the now defunct Rupert Murdoch-owned News of the World tabloid.

British newspapers rail against new regulation deal

March 19, 2013 08:01
Britain's newspapers on Tuesday railed against a new system of press regulation agreed by political leaders, which the biggest media groups have warned raises "deeply contentious issues". Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron, his Liberal Democrat deputy Nick Clegg and opposition Labour leader Ed Miliband all signed up on Monday to a tough new watchdog underpinned by law. They say it will rein in the kind of misdeeds exposed by the phone-hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid without curbing press freedom.

Int'l body OSCE worried about British press freedom

March 19, 2013 06:01
International monitoring body the OSCE has warned that government plans in Britain for a new media regulator risked undermining the freedom of the press. "A government-established regulatory body, regardless of how independent it is intended to be, could pose a threat to media freedom," Dunja Mijatovic, the OSCE's press freedom representative, said Monday. "I still believe that self-regulation is the best way to deal with ethical lapses and failures to comply with professional standards," she added in a statement.

British press mulls next move as MPs approve new rules

March 18, 2013 22:30
Britain's newspapers vowed to closely scrutinise a deal struck on Monday by the main political parties for a tough new press regulator, which they warned threatens 318 years of press freedom. MPs insisted the agreement would rein in the kind of misdeeds exposed by the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, without curbing press freedom, but the newspapers said the government had "crossed the Rubicon".
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