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News International phone hacking scandal. Rupert Murdoch in 2007. Employees of the now-defunct newspaper News of the World engaged in phone hacking, police bribery, and exercising improper influence in the pursuit of stories. Investigations conducted from 2005 to 2007 showed that the paper's phone hacking activities were targeted at celebrities ...
The News Corporation scandal involves phone, voicemail, and computer hacking that were allegedly committed over a number of years. The scandal began in the United Kingdom, where the News International phone hacking scandal has to date resulted in the closure of the News of the World newspaper and the resignation of a number of senior members of the Metropolitan Police force.
Scandal sheets were the precursors to tabloid journalism. Around 1770, scandal sheets appeared in London, and in the United States as early as the 1840s. [4] Reverend Henry Bate Dudley was the editor of one of the earliest scandal sheets, The Morning Post, which specialized in printing malicious society gossip, selling positive mentions in its pages, and collecting suppression fees to keep ...
Janet Leslie Cooke (born July 23, 1954) is an American former journalist. She received a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 for an article written for The Washington Post.The story was later discovered to have been fabricated and Cooke returned the prize, the only person to date to do so, [1] after admitting she had fabricated stories.
Confidential. (magazine) Confidential was an American magazine considered a pioneer in scandal, gossip and exposé journalism. Founded by Robert Harrison, it was published quarterly from December 1952 to August 1953 and then bi-monthly until it ceased publication in 1978.
History of American newspapers. The history of American newspapers begins in the early 18th century with the publication of the first colonial newspapers. American newspapers began as modest affairs—a sideline for printers. They became a political force in the campaign for American independence. Following independence the first amendment to U ...
In November last year Jaime Peñafiel, a 92-year-old newspaper columnist who is known for his fealty to Juan Carlos, published Letizia y Yo (Letizia and I). In the book del Burgo, a 54-year-old ...
In 1920, Walter Lippmann and Charles Merz investigated the coverage of the Russian Revolution by The New York Times from 1917 to 1920. Their findings, published as a supplement of The New Republic, concluded that The New York Times ' reporting was biased and inaccurate, adding that the newspaper's news stories were not based on facts but "were determined by the hopes of the men who made up the ...