page_title: List of investigations, resignations, suspensions, and dismissals in conjunction with the news media phone hacking scandal
section_title: By news media companies
hierarchical_section_title: List of investigations, resignations, suspensions, and dismissals in conjunction with the news media phone hacking scandal / By news media companies
caption_attribution_description: English: James Murdoch in 2008
context_page_description: This List of investigations, resignations, suspensions, and dismissals in conjunction with the news media phone hacking scandal is a chronological listing of investigations, actual and considered, into illegal acquisition of confidential information or cover-up by employees or other agents of news media companies in conjunction with the phone hacking scandal. Investigations listed here concern interception of voicemail, hacking of computers, obtaining confidential information under false pretenses, and payments to officials. Dates in parentheses indicate approximately when each investigation was initiated or considered.
  Prior to 2010 investigations focused on just a few individuals, even though there was evidence of many people being engaged in illegal activity. "The lead investigator in Operation Motorman, a 2006 inquiry...said that his team were told not to interview journalists involved. The investigator...accused authorities of being too 'frightened' to tackle journalists."
context_section_description: News International/Burton Copeland Investigation; (8 August 2005) On the day the Met seized documents from Goodman and Mulcaire and arrested both of them for conspiracy to intercept communications without lawful authority, News of the World editors said they were stunned and vowed to conduct an internal investigation. On 6 March 2007, Les Hinton advised the Commons Culture, Media, and Sport Committee that "a full, rigorous internal inquiry" is ongoing." Asked whether Goodman was the only person who knew about the phone hacking, Hinton replied that he believed Goodman was. In 2009, Colin Myler testified at the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee hearing that the firm of Burton Copeland was engaged "to absolutely oversee the investigation to cooperate with police...a very thorough investigation took place where there was a thorough review of everything from how cash payments were processed." Tom Crone testified that "Burton Copeland were in the office virtually every day...their remit was that they were brought in to go over everything and find out what had gone wrong, to liaise with the police...They were given absolutely free-range to ask whatever they wanted to ask." Andy Coulson testified that "I brought in Burton Copeland... to do an investigation. We opened up the files as much as we could. There was nothing they asked for that they were not given." As of August 2011, News International had not waived privilege with respect to Burton Copeland and their investigation. Linklaters replaced Burton Copeland in representing News International in July 2011. Linklaters sent a letter to the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee in August 2011 stating "Burton Copeland did not conduct an investigation into phone hacking at the News of the World and their role was 'only about helping the police'... [but] Scotland Yard received 'very little material' from News International and Burton Copeland."
  News International Email Review by Jonathan Chapman and Daniel Cloke; Reviewed a limited number of emails which were made available to them" through an electronic folder of emails assembled by News International's IT department." and which were subsequently made available to Harbottle & Lewis for review. Chapman states they were not "tasked with looking for evidence of any other potentially illegal activities" but had they come across evidence "of either voicemail interception or any other criminal activity," they would have reported it to their employer.
  News International Email Review by Harbottle & Lewis; (March 2007) Limited by News International to Clive Goodman's claim of unfair dismissal, limited to emails made available to Harbottle & Lewis by News International, and limited to determining whether others at News International were aware of Clive Goodman's illegal activity or were engaged in similar activity. This inquiry specifically did not include "(i)... email traffic between Mr. Goodman and several other key senior reporters and editorial executives, current and former, at the News of the World... (ii) ...emails from and to Mr. Mulcaire and (iii)...staff interviews and a review of cash payments."
  News Corp Investigation; (18 July 2011) Management and Standards Committee (MSC) Chairman Lord Anthony Grabiner will report to Joel Klein, Executive Vice President and News Corp Board director, who in turn will report to Viet Dinh, a Director and Chairman of News Corp’s Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
  Australia's News Limited (July 2011) "Launched a review of all payments made by the group in the last three years."
  Daily Mirror Investigation; (26 July 2011) "Six-week review...led by Trinity Mirror's group legal director Paul Vickers...to include all of the group's national and regional newspapers, including the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, The People, and the Daily Record."
caption: James Murdoch, Chief Executive Officer for News Corp, Europe and Asia maintained through 2009 that phone hacking within News International was limited to a single "rogue reporter" and his private investigator. This claim was challenged by Murdoch's senior executives.[70]
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