News of the World
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The News of the World is a British tabloid newspaper published every Sunday. It is published by News Group Newspapers of News International, itself a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, and can be considered the Sunday sister paper of The Sun. The newspaper concentrates on celebrity-based scoops and populist news. Its fondness for sex scandals gained it the nicknames "News of the Screws" and "Screws of the World". With sales averaging 2,904,566 copies per week in March 2010, the News of the World is the second-largest selling English-language newspaper in the world The editor Andy Coulson resigned on 26 January 2007 over the royal phone tapping scandal.
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Mentorn Media retains Question Time contract
BBC1 current affairs programme will be made by London-based independent producer for another three years.
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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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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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Life is tweet, says John Prescott, as Twitter reaches 10m milestone
Twitter has helped shift the balance of media power from press barons to the people – a true champagne moment.
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Former Murdoch deputy, News International chief exec to be charged in phone hacking coverup
The Guardian | Crown Prosecution Service The former head of News Corp. ’s UK newspapers will face criminal charges for her role in covering up the phone hacking scandal that led to News of the World’s closing. Rebekah… Read more.
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Les Hinton hits back over MPs' phone-hacking report
Ex-News International boss says culture committee 'misread' his evidence and made 'unsupportable leaps in logic'.
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John Whittingdale on phone hacking: 'I like to believe people are generally truthful'
The chair of the parliamentary select committee that grilled Rupert Murdoch is funny, relaxed and an unlikely people's champion. But is he also just a little too credulous?.
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Former News of the World reporter claims journalists 'made up' stories
Sunday tabloid was driven by culture of fear and unethical practices were rife, BBC told.
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Leveson inquiry: Rebekah Brooks tells of web of influence … and the LOLs
Rebekah Brooks's appearance was the Leveson inquiry's big chance to finally get the inside track on the relationship between the former queen of Rupert Murdoch's publishing empire in Britain and three successive prime ministers.
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