Sentences with phrase «news international scandal»
David Beetham, The News International scandal is just the tip of the iceberg of unelected oligarchies and corporate power in Britain's democracy, British Politics and Policy at LSE, 29 July 2011.
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(Doug MacMillan, head of Walmart International, had to make an early exit when news of the bribery scandal in Mexico urgently demanded his presence.)
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Brooks said the debate over her position as CEO of News International was now too much of a distraction for parent company News Corp. and she would concentrate on refuting allegations in the scandal.
«This is a victory for people up and down this country who have been appalled by the revelations of the phone hacking scandal and the failure of News International to take responsibility,» Labour leader Ed Miliband said.
That may have been a blessing, with Bryant instead enjoying a high profile stint on the culture select committee which saw him at the forefront of the battle with News International during the phone hacking scandal.
Pressure on the Murdochs over the phone - hacking scandal is unlikely to abate after forcing the resignation of News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks and the closure of the News of the World tabloid earlier this year.
At its meeting today (14) the Public and Commercial Services union's national executive committee agreed the following statement about the ongoing phone hacking scandal engulfing News International:
John Whittingdale, chairman of a parliamentary committee, has scheduled a hearing next Tuesday on the scandal, and summoned Mr. Murdoch; his son James, chairman of his British subsidiary, News International; and Rebekah Brooks, the subsidiary's chief executive, to be the principal witnesses.
In July 2011, following the revelation that the News of the World had paid private investigators to hack into the phones of Milly Dowler, as well as the families of murder victims and deceased servicemen, Miliband called for News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks to resign, urged David Cameron to establish a public, judge - led inquiry into the scandal, and announced that he would force a Commons vote on whether to block the News International bid for a controlling stake in BSkyB.
The fact he actually took a job at News International after leaving the force was indicative of the entire scandal.
She confirmed media reports that he had sent her a consoling message after she was forced to resign from her job as chief executive of News International at the height of the phone - hacking scandal last year.
James Murdoch resigned as executive chairman of News International this afternoon, as the phone - hacking scandal claimed its most senior scalp yet.
News International could face a seven - figure bill after deciding to settle with victims in its phone hacking scandal.
In July 2011 it was reported that Mark Stephens had been one of a group of high - profile lawyers who may have been the victim of «News International phone hacking scandal».
[20] Klein took over the investigation, with fellow director Viet D. Dinh, from News International UK Chief Executive, Rebekah Brooks, whose own involvement in the phone hacking scandal made her unable to continue as an impartial investigator.
In the week of 22 August 2011, Wireless Generation, [154] a subsidiary of News Corporation, lost a no - bid contract with New York State to build an information system, for tracking student performance as a consequence of the News International phone hacking scandal.
He has not stepped down as chairman as News International, however, where there will still be pressure from shareholders for him to take a step back to limit the reputational damage from the phone - hacking scandal.
Rupert Murdoch has met News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks to discuss the deepening scandal over phone hacking at News International.
Brooks, the former Sun editor and News International chief executive, was left «deeply angry and upset» after Cameron «deserted» her in the wake of the phone - hacking scandal, the book claims.
But a single mention of Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, who resigned during the phone hacking scandal and has subsequently returned to Rupert Murdoch's organisation to be chief executive of News UK, did stimulate a very interesting response.
However, I am given to understand from a source close to the matter that the committee suspended its investigation «out of respect for criminal proceedings» against other News International employees who were arrested in the aftermath of the hacking scandal.
The scandal has already resulted in the shuttering of the Murdoch - owned tabloid News of the World and prevented the company's British subsidiary News International from purchasing a larger share of BSkyB.
Mockridge last year was dispatched to replace Rebekah Brooks, who was forced to resign over News International's hacking and bribery scandal at the company's now - closed News of the World and faces a criminal trial next year.
Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks has dismissed her criminal charges over the phone - hacking scandal as an «expensive sideshow».
Miliband's stand against News International during the phone - hacking scandal was a high - point in his leadership.
Even more ridiculous is the spectacle of Conservative MPs and Conservative - leaning think - tankers trying to use the riots to back up the case for elected police commissioners — just like they did with the scandal over the Met's links to News International — without realising that the Met is precisely the one police force which is already very close to the elected commissioner model.
In July 2011 during the News International hacking scandal, Farrelly, a member of the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, which had been pursuing the scandal since 2007, took evidence from Rupert Murdoch, his son James and former NI chief executive and News of the World and Sun editor Rebekah Brooks.
Her most significant moment came during the media committee's inquiry into the phone - hacking scandal, which boosted the reputation of select committee and saw News International employees accused to lying to parliament.
Exclusive: Channel 4 News has learned that members of the committee set up to investigate the phone hacking scandal shied away from forcing News International chief executive and former Sun editor Rebekah Brooks to attend a meeting with them.
MPs are to meet later to decide whether to summon News International chief Rebekah Brooks to appear before them over the phone - hacking scandal.
Flying into London to take personal charge of the phone - hacking scandal, the billionaire flaunted his confidence in his News International chief executive.
On 18 July 2011, it was announced that Elizabeth Filkin would lead an inquiry related to the News International phone hacking scandal which would «recommend changes to links between the police and the media, including how to extend transparency.»
The News International phone - hacking scandal is a controversy involving the now defunct News of the World and other British newspapers published by News Some hackers wreak havoc online, but others are working to create a better internet.
Since the scandal of Cambridge Analytica became international news, teams of expensive lawyers and public relationship professionals haven't stopped the World's Least Charismatic CEO from digging himself a hole big enough to fit, say, a 700 - acre waterfront estate in.