News International
Summary
News International Ltd is a British newspaper publisher owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Until June 2002, it was called News International plc.The company's major titles are published by three subsidiary companies, Times Newspapers Ltd, News Group Newspapers and NI Free Newspapers Limited. These newspapers are written at a large site in Wapping in east London, near Tower Hill, which earned the nickname "Fortress Wapping" after a fierce dispute with the union to which the workforce had previously belonged. The printing of the papers is now undertaken at Broxbourne, Liverpool and Lanarkshire (the largest and fastest print press in the world).Between 1987 and 1995, News International owned, through its subsidiary News (UK) Ltd, Today, the first UK national newspaper to be printed in colour.
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Leveson inquiry: make political lying a criminal offence, says Peter Oborne
Peter Oborne, the Daily Telegraph columnist, has told the Leveson inquiry that "political lying" should be made a criminal offence for both politicians and journalists reporting on Westminster.
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London Olympics 2012 diver Tom Daley to launch iPhone app
British 18-year-old who made the finals in Beijing aims to raise awareness of the sport.
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Wapping finds a buyer now that the fortess has become a village
According to NI's paper, The Times, the east London site is on the verge of being acquired by Berkeley Group, one of Britain's largest house builders.
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No End in Sight to Inquiry Into Murdoch’s Media Empire
The scandal that has shaken Rupert Murdoch’s global media empire is now the focus of three Scotland Yard inquires and more than 100 civil lawsuits.
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Leveson inquiry: Jack Straw used to gossip with Rebekah Brooks
Former justice secretary reveals he regularly arranged to meet the then Sun editor as they made the same train journey.
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How Rebekah Brooks wrote the headlines in today's newspapers
If Rebekah Brooks was angry when speaking to the press yesterday, then her mood may have been improved somewhat by today's newspaper coverage.
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Rebekah Brooks says charges are 'expensive sideshow'
Former News International chief executive's husband, who was also charged, says he is being used as a scapegoat.
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Rebekah Brooks charges take the phone-hacking scandal to a new level
The decision to charge Rebekah Brooks with perverting the course of justice is a landmark moment in a scandal with a seemingly endless catalogue of landmark moments - and a further pointer to the unprecedented nature of an affair stretching back almost six years.
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Rebekah Brooks brands hacking investigation 'expensive sideshow' and 'waste of public money'
Former News international chief executive Rebekah Brooks has branded the investigation into phone-hacking at the News of the World that led to her being charged this morning with perverting the course of justice as "an expensive sideshow, and a waste of public money. ".
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Morning Brief: Rebekah Brooks to be charged in hacking case; Human Rights Law Review details wrongful execution in Texas; Greek party leaders meet in last-ditch effort to form coalition government
The former head of News International, the British division of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. , is to be charged today with obstructive of justice – as in Watergate, it is the cover-up that gets you.
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