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Cameron shuns tough media law, denies he's press stooge

March 14, 2013 12:45
By Andrew Osborn and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron abruptly ended cross-party talks on regulating Britain's famously aggressive newspapers on Thursday and tabled a vote on light-touch rules instead, prompting allegations he is in thrall to the press barons. Victims of scandal-hungry tabloids who have had their phones hacked and life stories misreported have pressed Cameron to implement the findings of a judge-led inquiry that recommended the creation of a tough press regulator backed by legislation.

Four arrested over hacking at UK's Mirror newspapers

March 14, 2013 11:01
British detectives arrested a tabloid editor and three other journalists on Thursday over suspected phone-hacking at Trinity Mirror newspapers, widening the scandal that started at Rupert Murdoch's rival empire. James Scott, the editor of weekly tabloid the People, and his deputy Nick Buckley were arrested along with the Sunday Mirror tabloid's former editor Tina Weaver and her former deputy Mark Thomas, the company and reports said.

British press regulation talks break down: Cameron

March 14, 2013 08:32
British Prime Minister David Cameron said Thursday that all-party talks on press regulation following the phone-hacking scandal had broken down and that lawmakers would vote on a new system next week. The Conservative leader rejected demands from his Liberal Democrat coalition partners and the opposition Labour party for statutory regulation, as recommended last year by the Leveson report into the News of the World hacking scandal.

UK hacking arrests spread beyond Murdoch papers

March 14, 2013 08:30
By Tim Castle LONDON (Reuters) - Police arrested four former editors from the Sunday Mirror tabloid on Thursday - the first journalists from a newspaper outside Rupert Murdoch's News Corp to be detained in a phone hacking scandal that shocked Britain. Shares in Trinity Mirror fell 21 percent, wiping over 60 million pounds ($90 million) off its value after police said they were looking into a suspected conspiracy at its Mirror Group between 2003 and 2004 to intercept telephone voicemails.

Four arrested over hacking at UK's Mirror newspapers: police

March 14, 2013 07:30
British detectives arrested four journalists on Thursday over a suspected phone-hacking conspiracy at Mirror Group newspapers, widening the scandal that started at Rupert Murdoch's rival empire. Scotland Yard said a new investigation focused on the Sunday Mirror newspaper, the main competitor to Murdoch's now defunct News of the World tabloid, in 2003 and 2004. Three men aged 40, 46 and 49 and a woman aged 47, all current or former journalists, were arrested in dawn raids at addresses in London, the force said in a statement.

Australia defends media reforms amid 'Stalinism' claims

March 13, 2013 01:30
Australia defended proposed media reforms arising from Britain's phone-hacking scandal Wednesday after a heated backlash from Rupert Murdoch's local operations, which labelled them dictatorial. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy was condemned after unveiling the changes, which will include a new public interest test for major mergers and stronger self-regulation requirements for the print media.

Australia defends media reforms amid 'Stalinism' claims

March 12, 2013 23:00
Australia defended proposed media reforms arising from Britain's phone-hacking scandal Wednesday after a heated backlash from Rupert Murdoch's local operations, which labelled them dictatorial. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy was condemned after unveiling the changes, which will include a new public interest test for major mergers and stronger self-regulation requirements for the print media.

Ex-News of the World editor in court over 'bribery'

March 8, 2013 10:16
Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson, a one-time top aide to British Prime Minister David Cameron, appeared in court in London Friday on bribery charges. Coulson, 45, is accused of requesting and authorising payments to public officials in exchange for information, including contact details for the royal family. He is charged alongside Clive Goodman, the former royal correspondent for the News of the World (NOTW), the weekly tabloid shut down by Rupert Murdoch in 2011 amid a wave of public revulsion over phone hacking.

UPDATE 1-British officials admit selling secrets to Murdoch's Sun tabloid

March 8, 2013 10:00
LONDON, March 8 (Reuters) - A former policeman and an ex-prison officer admitted on Friday to selling information to the Sun, a British tabloid newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch, in the first guilty pleas to come out of a huge police investigation into wrongdoing by journalists. The charges stemmed from an inquiry launched in 2011 into allegations journalists from Murdoch's now-defunct News of the World newspaper had hacked into mobile phone voicemail messages.

Ex-News of the World editors in court over bribery

March 8, 2013 09:31
Former News of the World editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, a one-time top aide to British Prime Minister David Cameron, appeared in court in London on Friday on bribery charges. Coulson, 45, is accused of requesting and authorising payments to public officials in exchange for information, including contact details of the royal family. He is charged alongside Clive Goodman, the former royal correspondent for the News of the World, the tabloid which was shut down by Rupert Murdoch in 2011 amid a wave of public revulsion over phone hacking.
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