In pictures: TheJournal.ie’s winners and losers of 2011
Who came out on top, and who was bringing up the rear? Here are our picks for the winners and losers of the year.
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Who came out on top, and who was bringing up the rear? Here are our picks for the winners and losers of the year.
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A 41-year-old man was arrested this morning and is being held in south London on suspicion of conspiring to access voicemails and pervert the course of justice.
Rupert Murdoch’s son has stepped down from the boards of News Group Newspapers Limited and Times Newspapers Limited.
Public figures including Hugh Grant, JK Rowling and Sienna Miller are to appear alongside other alleged phone hacking victims including Madeleine McCann’s father.
Today was the opening day of the Leveson inquiry into press standards. It was told that evidence showed at least 28 News International staff were named in notes belonging to private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.
The News Corporation came under heavy attack as he gave more evidence to MPs today.
Murdoch is due to answer questions about evidence he gave in July which has subsequently been contradicted.
The tabloid paid ex-policeman Derek Webb to track hundreds of people over an eight-year period.
…according to the US wealth management magazine Worth, including the German Chancellor and new ECB chief.
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News International has agreed to pay £2 million pounds to the family of the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, and to donate a further £1 million to charities chosen by the family.
Allegations in the Guardian newspaper have forced Andrew Langhoff to step down.
What is he talking about? Tax returns, of course.
The sum is one of the largest settlements ever considered by a news organisation – and reflects how the News of the World interfered with a police investigation and gave the Dowler family false hope that the schoolgirl was still alive.
Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper publisher will drop the workers between now and July – but won’t say if Irish staff are to go.
Four former News International executives have given testimony to the British Parliament’s media committee today that contradicts the Murdochs’ version of events in relation to the phone hacking scandal.
The former British prime minister’s close link to the media tycoon has been revealed in a magazine interview with Murdoch’s wife.
Journalistic standards across News International’s titles are being reviewed in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal.
The arrest of James Desborough is seen as a significant development in the scandal that has rocked the UK establishment.
Instead, the current COO Chase Carey – Murdoch’s vice-chairman – would take over “if I went under a bus.”
London police have arrested a 61-year-old man in connection with the ongoing investigation into the alleged hacking of phone messages.
Meanwhile former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan is under increasing pressure to return home from the US, in the wake of hacking allegations by Heather Mills.
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The comedian attacked 80-year-old Rupert Murdoch with a shaving-foam pie during a House of Commons committee meeting.
Jonathan May-Bowles, aka ‘Jonnie Marbles’, pleads guilty to attacking Rupert Murdoch, 80, earlier this month.
Sara Payne, whose eight-year-old daughter Sarah was abducted and murdered in 2000, wrote a column for the News of the World’s final edition.
The TV presenter and former editor has denied any involvement in alleged phone hacking.
Doubt has been cast over key evidence the News International chief gave on Tuesday as one MP says he will ask police to review the matter.
Murdoch’s British media empire can no longer meet its Team 2012 contractual obligations after the News of the World was closed.
Wendi Deng’s slapping assault on her husband’s foam pie attacker has turned her into a sensation in her native country.
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A 26-year-old comedian is accused of ‘harassment’ after the media mogul was smeared with shaving foam yesterday.
In today’s Fix: Ireland’s first female Chief Justice is named; News International heads face questioning over alleged phone hacking; and the Rubberbandits take New York…
The former chief executive of News International appears before the UK Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport on the phone-hacking scandal in the News of the World.
A House of Commons committee is asking questions about the phone-hacking affair. Watch it live here.
The Murdochs apologised to the victims of phone hacking before answering questions regarding the size of payments to former NotW employees Glenn Mulcaire and Clive Goodman – and about Max Mosely’s privacy case against the newspaper.
Murdoch has been giving evidence in the phone hacking scandal.