News of the World phone hacking affair | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-15

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00:04:03 1 Early investigations, 1990s–2005
00:04:55 1.1 Operation Nigeria
00:10:17 1.2 Operation Motorman
00:14:10 1.3 Operation Glade
00:15:58 2 2005–2006: Royal phone hacking scandal
00:21:30 3 PCC investigations
00:23:43 4 2009–2011: Renewed investigations
00:24:40 4.1 The iGuardian/i July 2009 reports
00:27:59 4.2 Scotland Yard's response
00:34:52 4.3 The iGuardian/i December 2010 report
00:36:41 5 January–June 2011: Admission of liability
00:36:55 5.1 Operation Weeting begins
00:41:40 5.2 Apology and compensation
00:47:37 6 July 2011: new allegations
00:47:49 6.1 Milly Dowler's voicemail
00:52:19 6.2 British soldiers' relatives
00:53:18 6.3 7/7 London attack victims
00:54:33 6.4 Sara Payne
00:57:00 6.5 Other victims
01:01:40 7 Aftermath
01:01:49 7.1 Closure of the iNews of the World/i
01:04:18 7.2 BSkyB takeover bid withdrawn
01:05:15 7.3 New York State contract lost by subsidiary of News Corporation
01:06:17 7.4 Resignations
01:10:37 7.5 Dismissals
01:11:55 7.6 Leaves/suspensions
01:12:35 7.7 Cautions
01:13:23 7.8 Apologies
01:18:11 7.9 Further arrests
01:18:48 7.9.1 Andy Coulson
01:19:58 7.9.2 Neil Wallis
01:21:15 7.9.3 Rebekah Brooks
01:23:14 7.9.4 Stuart Kuttner, Greg Miskiw, James Desborough, Dan Evans and others
01:27:38 7.9.5 Jonathan Rees and Alex Marunchak
01:30:07 7.10 Murdochs and Brooks summonsed to Parliament
01:36:30 7.11 News Corporation's management standards committee
01:37:46 7.12 Death of Sean Hoare
01:38:38 7.13 iDaily Mirror/i allegations
01:43:15 7.14 Harbottle and Lewis
01:49:39 7.15 Criminal charges and convictions
01:57:13 8 Further UK investigations
02:01:09 8.1 Leveson inquiry
02:02:41 8.2 Home Affairs Select Committee
02:06:16 8.3 Mark Lewis
02:07:53 8.4 Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee
02:08:59 8.5 Independent Police Complaints Commission
02:10:45 8.6 Elizabeth Filkin
02:11:14 8.7 Clive Goodman's 2007 letter
02:12:25 9 Ethical concerns, legal concerns and possible implications
02:12:40 9.1 Criticism of News International culture
02:17:13 9.2 Ethical backlash
02:20:14 10 Impact in other countries
02:20:25 10.1 Australia
02:20:34 10.1.1 News Limited announces review
02:21:32 10.1.2 Australian Government announces formal review
02:22:12 10.2 United States
02:25:20 11 Timeline
02:44:06 12 See also



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The News International phone-hacking scandal was a controversy involving the now-defunct News of the World and other British newspapers published by News International, a subsidiary of News Corporation. Employees of the newspaper were accused of engaging in phone hacking, police bribery, and exercising improper influence in the pursuit of stories. Whilst investigations conducted from 2005 to 2007 appeared to show that the paper's phone hacking activities were limited to celebrities, politicians, and members of the British royal family, in July 2011 it was revealed that the phones of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, relatives of deceased British soldiers, and victims of the 7 July 2005 London bombings had also been hacked. The resulting public outcry against News Corporation and its owner Rupert Murdoch led to several high-profile resignations, including that of Murdoch as News Corporation director, Murdoch's son James as executive chairman, Dow Jones chief executive Les Hinton, News International legal manager Tom Crone, and chief executive Rebekah Brooks. The commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), Sir Paul Stephenson, also resigned. Advertiser boycotts led to the closure of the News of the World on 10 July 2011, after 168 years of publication. Public pressure shortly forced News Corporation to cancel its proposed takeover of the British satellite broadcaster BSkyB.
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