Timeline: Hacking scandal hits News Corp

[OKIsItJustMe]

Source: Reuters

Timeline: Hacking scandal hits News Corp

Mon Jul 18, 2011 1:06pm EDT

(Reuters) - Here are the main events in the phone-hacking scandal leading to News Corp's Chairman Rupert Murdoch withdrawing his bid for British broadcaster BSkyB and closing the 168-year-old News of the World tabloid.

2000 - Rebekah Wade is appointed editor of Britain's best-selling Sunday tabloid, News of the World. Aged 32 and the youngest national newspaper editor in the country, she begins a campaign to name and shame suspected pedophiles, leading to some alleged offenders being terrorized by angry mobs. She also campaigns for public access to the Sex Offenders' Register, which eventually comes into law as "Sarah's Law."

2003 - Wade becomes editor of tabloid the Sun, sister paper to the News of the World and Britain's biggest selling daily. Andy Coulson, her deputy editor since 2000, becomes editor of the Sunday paper. Wade tells a parliamentary committee her paper paid police for information. News International later says this is not company practice.

November 2005 - The News of the World publishes a story on a knee injury suffered by Prince William. Royal court officials complain about voicemail messages being intercepted. The complaints spark a police inquiry.

January 2007 - News of the World royal affairs editor Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire admit conspiring to intercept communications, Mulcaire also pleads guilty to five other charges of intercepting voicemail messages. Goodman is jailed for four months, Mulcaire for six months.

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[Tarheel_Dem]

1. This is really getting good. Handcuffs for the whole outfit. (nt)

[Kingofalldems]

2. Internet Fox news/Murdoch lovers in total panic mode

Desperately trying to change the subject

:shrug:

[Aerows]

3. Hell, even Brooks is in panic mode

She or her husband ditched a laptop, a cell phone and some papers in a bag in a trash bin. Of course it was promptly found and turned into the police, because it wasn't far from their house. They are in complete panic.

[Kingofalldems]

4. I just saw that

Discarding evidence could be a crime in itself. They will sing.

[Aerows]

5. You know somebody will

They can't keep everyone quiet at this point.