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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_International_phone_hacking_scandal 00:04:03 1 Early investigations, 1990s–2005 00:04:55 1.1 Operation Nigeria 00:10:17 1.2 Operation Motorman 00:14:10 1.3 Operation Glade 00:15:58 2 2005–2006: Royal phone hacking scandal 00:21:30 3 PCC investigations 00:23:43 4 2009–2011: Renewed investigations 00:24:40 4.1 The iGuardian/i July 2009 reports 00:27:59 4.2 Scotland Yard's response 00:34:52 4.3 The iGuardian/i December 2010 report 00:36:41 5 January–June 2011: Admission of liability 00:36:55 5.1 Operation Weeting begins 00:41:40 5.2 Apology and compensation 00:47:37 6 July 2011: new allegations 00:47:49 6.1 Milly Dowler's voicemail 00:52:19 6.2 British soldiers' relatives 00:53:18 6.3 7/7 London attack victims 00:54:33 6.4 Sara Payne 00:57:00 6.5 Other victims 01:01:40 7 Aftermath 01:01:49 7.1 Closure of the iNews of the World/i 01:04:18 7.2 BSkyB takeover bid withdrawn 01:05:15 7.3 New York State contract lost by subsidiary of News Corporation 01:06:17 7.4 Resignations 01:10:37 7.5 Dismissals 01:11:55 7.6 Leaves/suspensions 01:12:35 7.7 Cautions 01:13:23 7.8 Apologies 01:18:11 7.9 Further arrests 01:18:48 7.9.1 Andy Coulson 01:19:58 7.9.2 Neil Wallis 01:21:15 7.9.3 Rebekah Brooks 01:23:14 7.9.4 Stuart Kuttner, Greg Miskiw, James Desborough, Dan Evans and others 01:27:38 7.9.5 Jonathan Rees and Alex Marunchak 01:30:07 7.10 Murdochs and Brooks summonsed to Parliament 01:36:30 7.11 News Corporation's management standards committee 01:37:46 7.12 Death of Sean Hoare 01:38:38 7.13 iDaily Mirror/i allegations 01:43:15 7.14 Harbottle and Lewis 01:49:39 7.15 Criminal charges and convictions 01:57:13 8 Further UK investigations 02:01:09 8.1 Leveson inquiry 02:02:41 8.2 Home Affairs Select Committee 02:06:16 8.3 Mark Lewis 02:07:53 8.4 Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee 02:08:59 8.5 Independent Police Complaints Commission 02:10:45 8.6 Elizabeth Filkin 02:11:14 8.7 Clive Goodman's 2007 letter 02:12:25 9 Ethical concerns, legal concerns and possible implications 02:12:40 9.1 Criticism of News International culture 02:17:13 9.2 Ethical backlash 02:20:14 10 Impact in other countries 02:20:25 10.1 Australia 02:20:34 10.1.1 News Limited announces review 02:21:32 10.1.2 Australian Government announces formal review 02:22:12 10.2 United States 02:25:20 11 Timeline 02:44:06 12 See also Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: - increases imagination and understanding - improves your listening skills - improves your own spoken accent - learn while on the move - reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio: https://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91 Other Wikipedia audio articles at: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts Upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts Speaking Rate: 0.7142973407711178 Voice name: en-US-Wavenet-B "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." - Socrates SUMMARY ======= The News International phone-hacking scandal was a controversy involving the now-defunct News of the World and other British newspapers published by News International, a subsidiary of News Corporation. Employees of the newspaper were accused of engaging in phone hacking, police bribery, and exercising improper influence in the pursuit of stories. Whilst investigations conducted from 2005 to 2007 appeared to show that the paper's phone hacking activities were limited to celebrities, politicians, and members of the British royal family, in July 2011 it was revealed that the phones of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, relatives of deceased British soldiers, and victims of the 7 July 2005 London bombings had also been hacked. The resulting public outcry against News Corporation and its owner Rupert Murdoch led to several high-profile resignations, including that of Murdoch as News Corporation director, Murdoch's son James as executive chairman, Dow Jones chief executive Les Hinton, News International legal manager Tom Crone, and chief executive Rebekah Brooks. The commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), Sir Paul Stephenson, also resigned. Advertiser boycotts led to the closure of the News of the World on 10 July 2011, after 168 years of publication. Public pressure shortly forced News Corporation to cancel its proposed takeover of the British satellite broadcaster BSkyB. The prime minister ... |