News of the World

The deepening scandal surrounding the London tabloid News of the World is being covered very differently by the media outlets of News Corp. — owner of the paper — and their chief rivals. The home page of the New York Times on Friday morning...

Staffers at the scandal-hit News of the World emotionally departed their London newsroom for the last time Saturday night, proudly holding up the final edition of the best-selling British Sunday tabloid. Scores of the newspaper's employees left their...

LONDON, July 11 (Reuters) - Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper reported on Monday that News of the World journalists had offered to pay a New York police officer to retrieve the private phone records of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Citing an...

LONDON -- When Rupert Murdoch, his media empire under fire over a phone-hacking scandal, swept into his London headquarters on Sunday from the United States, the message was clear. Murdoch, sporting a white panama-style hat, sat in the front passenger...

Bo Dietl--a retired NYPD Detective who's now a private investigator--wasn't surprised when PIX 11 News came calling about an explosive report in London's Daily Mirror on Monday. The story claimed that reporters from the rival "News of the World"...

In the Fox40 newsroom we pay a lot of attention to the ethics of journalism. And the truth is: no one around here had ever heard of phone hacking, or how to do it. As the story of the tabloid tactics at News of the World has unfolded, we started worrying...

The only sort of power a news organization can wield safely is the power to persuade. Every other sort — no matter how high-minded or expedient the reason for taking it up — is a kind of slow poison that twists the souls of the journalists...

On weekday mornings, I'll post the most controversial, shocking and (of course) ridiculous stories for your reading pleasure. That way, when you walk into work, you'll be the master of witty conversation. Articles  • Touchy, touchy: 'Agitated'...

During the economic meltdown of 2008, I was appalled by the emotional, rollercoaster, histrionic, fact-lacking "coverage" from such cable-TV business analysts as Jim Cramer (CNBC) and Ali Velshi (CNN). I thought TV coverage during that crucial time in...

LONDON (AP) — The apologies keep coming from Rupert Murdoch, who has taken out a second newspaper ad promising that his News Corp. will make amends for the phone hacking scandal shaking his global media empire. The ad in several British Sunday...

Rupert Murdoch is in trouble and a whole lot of folks are delighted. They are practically drooling at the mouth that the downfall of Fox News could be around the corner. Members of Congress are calling for an investigation into allegations that the...

Love or hate us, we members of the Fourth Estate hold what we do as dear and sacred. We try to hold ourselves to a certain standard, one that prizes ethics and restraint above sensationalism and tawdry tactics, one that attempts to effect positive...