News of the world phone hacking controversy

But media analyst Claire Enders said the scandal was unlikely to affect Murdoch's business on a global level. The story is not making much impact outside the UK. Middleton said that - like an alcoholic recognizing he has a drink problem -- the paper's only hope was to acknowledge its faults and say it's sorry - before rebuilding from scratch.

Share this on:. Experts say heads are likely to roll over the hacking scandal -- but Rupert Murdoch insists he is standing by Rebekah Brooks.

It's a rare thing for a brand to be the focus of such a wave of revulsion --Simon Middleton, brand strategist. Part of complete coverage on. The hacking scandal. Phone hacking: How scandal unfolded.

Damaging allegations over phone hacking are continuing to mount against Rupert Murdoch's media empire. Who is Wendi Deng? It's the slap that's been heard around the world: Wendi Deng Murdoch putting herself between her husband Rupert Murdoch and a protester armed with a shaving cream pie. Hacking scandal gets global audience.

The phone-hacking scandal began two years ago as a lonely newspaper crusade in London, but the story has taken the world by its ear. Opinion: Closing door on Murdoch. The technique was simple. In an era before smartphones made it easier to send lengthy text messages, a typical set of voicemails could include everything from declarations of love to private medical information. Thousands of people were targeted. Journalists listened in to hundreds of messages left by the then home secretary David Blunkett , who was in charge of the police and security services.

And I was responsible for my behaviour. Murdoch is said to have regretted the decision to shut the newspaper. At one point after its closure he informally suggested to BuzzFeed , then a fast-growing online news outlet aimed at millennials, that it could reuse the News of the World brand.

They declined. Piers Morgan has confirmed that, at a Mirror lunch in , he warned Jeremy Paxman about phone-hacking. And the following year, , he also warned the singer Charlotte Church. She recorded an interview with him, part of which was later broadcast by Channel 4, and it included the following significant exchange:.

Just by tapping in a number. In short, by at the latest, Morgan — by his own admission — was not merely aware that phone-hacking by journalists was possible; he knew it was actually happening and that stories were being published as a result.

Because, in that case, he must have believed that it was only his rivals who were breaking the law. In this scenario, Morgan would have believed his own newspaper to be in the clear, but his rivals up to their necks in criminality — giving those rivals a significant competitive advantage in getting big stories. What more reason could he have asked for to expose hacking at this stage?

Not only would it have been a public service, it would also have been extremely good for business. Merely on the evidence of his own words, and without taking any account of the great volume of evidence about Morgan and phone-hacking that has been brought forward by other people — it seems clear that he should be ashamed. He might well take the same line he tried at the Leveson Inquiry — that he never really knew about phone-hacking and had just heard industry rumours.

Piers Morgan was an editor, and the responsibility of editors, when they hear rumours about criminal activity, is to establish whether or not they are true.

Otherwise, they are just covering it up. Byline Times is funded by its subscribers.