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Covers:  polish politics, films, news corp, british politics, phone hacking, monopolies, digital domain, drama, media culture, transparency, bank malpractice, soca, phone hacking trials, whistleblowers, news international, corruption of public officials, news of the world closure, jimmy savile, press complaints, daniel morgan inquiry, leveson inquiry, historic child abuse
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Everyone, even Jude Law, should be able to live out their love lives in private

Everyone, even Jude Law, should be able to live out their love lives in private

Independent — He divorced his third wife, Wendi Deng, only last year, with accusations flying around she had been besotted with Tony Blair. These rumours were sourced mainly from News Corp emails and seemed to tell one side of the story. And that's the reality of privacy and celebrity these days: the media barons who buy ink by the container load and pixels by the terabyte, control the story. But Mensch represents more than the self-interest of her payroll: she represents the self-interest of Fleet Street.
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If you tweet it they will come, Peter Jukes - British Journalism Review, Vol. 25, No. 3, 2014

If you tweet it they will come, Peter Jukes - British Journalism Review, Vol. 25, No. 3, 2014

bjr.org.uk — The man who changed the face of court reporting during the journalism trial of the century explains how he did it Mr Justice Saunders: "Don't believe everything you read on Twitter." When it comes to live-tweeting the phone hacking trial, I was the happy beneficiary of three strokes of good fortune: I lucked out getting a pass to the annex; I lucked out getting a phone signal in the press annex; and more than anything, I lucked out with my judge.
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Other people's voicemail: how phone-hacking became the news

Other people's voicemail: how phone-hacking became the news

New Statesman — Hack Attack Nick Davies Chatto & Windus, 448pp, £20 The News Machine: Hacking - the Untold Story James Hanning with Glenn Mulcaire Gibson Square, 288pp, £14.99 "The only truly effective critics of power are the journalists - particularly investigative journalists," said the great postwar historian Tony Judt in a conversation shortly before he died in 2010. A year later, in 2011, Guardian reporter Nick Davies broke the story about the News of the World hacking the phone of the murdered teenager Milly Dowler and his report brought News International, one of the most powerful unelected organisations in Britain, to its knees.
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'Can we hack their voicemail? That's kind of how journalism worked in those days' - extract from ...

'Can we hack their voicemail? That's kind of how journalism worked in those days' - extract from ...

www.pressgazette.co.uk — Peter Jukes covered every day of the eight-month hacking trial in copious detail on Twitter backed by crowdfunded donations. His book, Beyond Contempt, captures the drama of the trial in a way that 140-character Tweets never could and also reveals much that could not be reported at the time because of restrictions. This first extract focuses on former Sunday Mirror and News of the World reporter Dan Evans, who gave evidence against colleagues and admitted phone-hacking whilst at both titles. It also looks at the case against former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks.
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What next for Rebekah Brooks?

What next for Rebekah Brooks?

Australian Broadcasting Corporation News — Author Peter Jukes explores former tabloid queen Rebekah Brooks's future after the News of the World scandal.
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Rupert's Red Top: The Rise and Fall of Rebekah Brooks

Rupert's Red Top: The Rise and Fall of Rebekah Brooks

www.newrepublic.com — In March, midway through her set-piece cross-examination at the phone-hacking trial, as she explained her campaigning style of journalism, Rebekah Brooks said: "When we did those campaigns we had to be above the law ... I mean within the law." It was an uncharacteristic slip, perhaps the only one in three weeks in the witness box at the Old Bailey in London. Although she sometimes looked pale or tired, the former tabloid editor had an answer for every question. In a structured timeline delivered by her counsel, Jonathan Laidlaw QC, the jury was given almost a week-long summary of her career, from secretary to features writer, all the way up to the top of the most powerful publisher in British newspapers.
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Rupert Murdoch's Trouble Has Only Just Begun

Rupert Murdoch's Trouble Has Only Just Begun

Daily Beast — When Rupert Murdoch flew into London as the phone-hacking allegations exploded in 2011, he was asked for his top priority. "This one," he said, gesturing at Rebekah Brooks. He got his wish this week when she was spared by a jury, but Murdoch is expected back in the city to face dozens of new burning priorities, many of which threaten to diminish or even destroy his newspaper empire. It can now be reported that the FBI has copies of at least 80,000 emails taken from the servers at News Corp in New York.
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Why the UK Hacking Scandal Matters

Why the UK Hacking Scandal Matters

Mashable — LONDON, England - The so-called phone hacking scandal is finally at an end. Or at least the trial part of the scandal. On Tuesday, a jury at London's Old Bailey court found Andy Coulson, the former editor of News of the World, guilty of phone hacking. And although Rebekah Brooks, a high-profile News International executive, was acquitted of all charges, it's clear that phone hacking of celebrities, politicians and even crime victims was a common practice for years at Rupert Murdoch's tabloid.
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Philip Pullman interview: the 'religious atheist' - Peter Jukes - Aeon

Philip Pullman interview: the 'religious atheist' - Peter Jukes - Aeon

aeon.co — The most impressive thing about meeting Philip Pullman is how unimposing he is. Renowned as a master of mythologies, casting a cultural shadow that stretches from Hollywood films to intellectual debates about atheism and faith, you'd expect his Oxfordshire house to be some kind of remote, brooding mansion. Instead, I ring on the door of a roomy but low-key suburban household, feet away from the main road in a commuter-belt village. Tall, diffident, if a little wary at first, Pullman shows me to the comfiest sofa by the fire, and makes a pot of his trademark tea (three spoons of Assam to one of Lapsang Souchong).
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Live Tweeting the hacking trial

Live Tweeting the hacking trial

fothom.wordpress.com — Here's a summary of Peter Jukes' Live Tweets from the Hacking Trial. Click on the dates below to see the full trial Live twitter feed for that day. Click here for evidence indexed by charges, defendants, legal counsel, phone hacking victims and witneses. Note: Trial dates not recorded here are court sessions in which the jury was not present and therefore cannot be reported. This is normally due to the fact that counsel are making legal argument and establishing agreed facts. All the defendants deny all the charges and the trial continues.
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Hackgate in 140 characters, Peter Jukes - British Journalism Review, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2014

Hackgate in 140 characters, Peter Jukes - British Journalism Review, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2014

www.bjr.org.uk — They say evolution is just a series of successful accidents, and the way I ended up crowdfunding my live twitter coverage of the hacking trial was a mixture of necessity and chance. Although I wanted to be a journalist in my teens, I have spent most my career as a dramatist for stage, radio and television but, as commissioning editors and directors would complain, they became ever more heavily researched based. I loved going out undercover and flying in air ambulances, and reality was always more interesting to me than fiction.
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Hacking Trial and Background

Hacking Trial and Background

flipboard.com — By peterjukes | A magazine devoted to the phone hacking scandal, and connections between media monopolies, modern culture and politics
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Kate Middleton's Phone Was Hacked, Court Hears

Kate Middleton's Phone Was Hacked, Court Hears

Daily Beast — Kate Middleton and Prince Harry had their phones hacked by Rupert Murdoch's biggest selling newspaper, a court in London heard on Thursday. It is the first time the Murdoch media empire has been accused of illegally accessing the phone of a member of the royal family: previous allegations have centered on the hacking of phones used by royal aides. The now-shuttered Sunday tabloid, the News of the World, is accused of accessing Middleton's voicemails to gain embarrassing personal details about her and Prince William. The court heard that a series of private messages that were intended to be shared only by the two young lovers have recently been unearthed as part of the police investigation.
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8 Lessons From the Murdoch Phone Hacking Trial

8 Lessons From the Murdoch Phone Hacking Trial

Daily Beast — The first month of the phone hacking trial at the Old Bailey in Central London has heard an extraordinary account of alleged malpractice, duplicity and illegality at the heart of Rupert Murdoch's biggest selling newspaper, the now defunct News of the World tabloid. The prosecution case against Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and six others, all of whom deny the charges, resumes on Thursday. Here is everything we have learnt so far. The Devil is in the Metadata In British trials, there are usually a number of admissions or 'agreed facts', uncontested by either side.
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Murdoch's Papers Fight the Guardian (and Free Speech)

Murdoch's Papers Fight the Guardian (and Free Speech)

www.newrepublic.com — While it might be a mite too early to assess the historic and political impact of Edward Snowden's leaks of top secret NSA documents, the first casualty is already clear: journalism. The arrest for nine hours last week of David Miranda while in transit through London's Heathrow airport is just one obvious example. Miranda was held under the Schedule 7 of the British Terrorism Act 2000 for nine hours with no legal representation, and his computers and personal effects searched and confiscated. Miranda was allegedly acting as a courier for his partner Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian columnist who has been the pointman for most of Snowden's leaks.
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Obama's Campaign Manager Sells Out for Austerity

Obama's Campaign Manager Sells Out for Austerity

www.newrepublic.com — The news that Jim Messina, who masterminded President Obama's re-election last year, is to advise Britain's conservative Prime Minister David Cameron in the run-up to the 2015 general election, has taken commentators on both sides of the Atlantic by surprise. "WTF?" exclaimed Michael Tomasky, labelling Messina's move as "insanity." Meanwhile Labour supporters seem more jealous and disappointed than disgusted that Obama's campaign guru would go to work for a party that celebrates the austerity politics Obama has battled at home. It shouldn't have come as such a shock.
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Revealed: secrets from SOCA report on private investigators

Revealed: secrets from SOCA report on private investigators

www.exaronews.com — Full details can today be revealed of an intelligence report compiled by the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency into private investigators. SOCA censored key passages when it released a copy of its confidential report on corrupt investigators, triggering intense speculation about what was removed. Exaro today publishes a full copy of the 2008 report, entitled, 'Private Investigators: The Rogue Element of the Private Investigation Industry and Others Unlawfully Trading in Personal Data'. It was codenamed, 'Project Riverside', and based on intelligence from five police operations. Exaro's unredacted version identifies two blue-chip companies as victims of private detectives who 'blagged' sensitive personal data from them.
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Unredacted: SOCA's confidential report on private detectives

Unredacted: SOCA's confidential report on private detectives

www.exaronews.com — A spokesman for British Telecom, which has since been rebranded BT, acknowledged that it had been successfully targeted by blaggers. Mark Hughes, chief executive of BT Security, a unit in the group, told Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry into newspaper practices that the telecoms giant was a frequent victim of what he called 'social engineering'. He described this as attempts by fraudsters to manipulate staff of an organisation such as BT into disclosing customers' personal information. As of February 2012, BT identified 19 cases of social engineering over the previous six years that were "sufficiently serious to have been dealt with by BT Security investigations."
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'No Cyber Sex Please, We're British'

'No Cyber Sex Please, We're British'

www.newrepublic.com — "No Sex Please, We're British" was a comedy that ran for years in London's West End, a sex romp in a tradition of what was called the 'Whitehall Farce.' This week's attack on internet porn by prime minister David Cameron could be billed as a kind of revival: "No Cyber Sex Please, We're British." It certainly has farcical overtones. Trumpeting Monday's announcement most loudly was the Daily Mail , which hailed the installation of "family friendly filters" on new broadband connections as a victory in its campaign to "Block Online Porn." Cameron was happy to give the powerful mid-market conservative newspaper credit.
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The One-Stop Whistleblower Shop

The One-Stop Whistleblower Shop

www.newrepublic.com — In the furor following the leak last week of top secret National Security Agency documents, tough questions about national security and personal privacy often got drowned out by the cacophony of messenger-shooting. Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old Booz Allen employee who handed over the data was a hero, martyr, villain, traitor or perhaps a paranoid child of techno-libertarianism. His main interlocutor, the former Salon columnist Glenn Greenwald, was a vainglorious exaggerator, or one of the bravest journalists since Woodward and Bernstein. One messenger, however, seems to have escaped the rash of character assassination and hero worship: The relatively small British-based news organisation that has now provoked two of the biggest data dumps on U.S.
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Charles Saatchi: From Saatchi & Saatchi to Allegedly Choking Nigella Lawson

Charles Saatchi: From Saatchi & Saatchi to Allegedly Choking Nigella Lawson

Daily Beast — It makes Mad Men's depiction of admen look tame. The backstory of Charles Saatchi, who was cautioned by police Monday night for allegedly repeatedly grabbing the throat of his wife, celebrity TV chef Nigella Lawson, during dinner at an exclusive London restaurant, is far more extraordinary than Don Draper's-and he remains even more enigmatic and elusive. Born in Baghdad to Iraqi Jews who fled to London in 1947, Charles and his brother Maurice built up the world's largest advertising company, with over 600 offices, before they were 40 years old.
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What News Corp's Hacking Scandal Has to Do with James Rosen's Phone Records

What News Corp's Hacking Scandal Has to Do with James Rosen's Phone Records

www.newrepublic.com — It seems to have gone nowhere. After the phone hacking scandal broke two years ago, British politics was in tumult. The world's oldest English-language newspaper, the News of the World, was peremptorily shut down. News Corp., the world's second biggest media conglomerate, was in meltdown. Senior executives either resigned (like Dow publisher Les Hinton) or were arrested (like CEO Rebekah Brooks). The resignations were quickly followed by the defenestrations of Britain's most senior police officers, who had wined and dined with those same executives rather than investigating them. The Murdoch dynastic succession was also shattered.
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Sex Scandal Engulfs 10 Downing Street as Feral Press Bites Back

Sex Scandal Engulfs 10 Downing Street as Feral Press Bites Back

Daily Beast — Allegations of a secret, now-concluded "affair" that reportedly left Prime Minister David Cameron "stunned" and threatened to derail the government's agenda were published by the Mail on Sunday. "This revelation is dynamite. None of us could believe it when we first heard it. Then we just thought, 'What a complete mess,'" a source told the Mail. "Such disclosure could 'blow out of the water' any major political set pieces planned by No. 10" according to the newspaper. Citing "legal reasons," the paper describes the affair's participants only as "middle-aged figures" whose relationship has now concluded.
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How the British Media Became the Tool of the Brutal London Killers

How the British Media Became the Tool of the Brutal London Killers

Newsweek — How the British press became the tool of brutal killers.
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