British Media

How The Daily Mail Conquered England

newyorker.com | Posted 05.26.2012

The Mail is the most powerful newspaper in Great Britain. A middle-market tabloid, with a daily readership of four and a half million, it reaches four...

Murdoch Makes A Big Announcement

AP | RAPHAEL SATTER | Posted 02.20.2012

LONDON -- The successor to Rupert Murdoch's scandal-tarnished News of the World newspaper will start publication in a week's time, a senior News Corp....

The Leveson Inquiry: The Story So Far

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 04.11.2012

LONDON (AP) — British police say they have arrested eight people in connection with alleged bribes paid by the country's media to police and other p...

BBC 'Faces of the Year' List Angers Thousands

The Independent | Tom Peck | Posted 02.28.2012

The BBC found itself at the centre of another Twitter-stoked sexism row yesterday after the female section of its "Faces of the Year" list included Sw...

A Lesson In Tabloid Sleaze

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 02.01.2012

LONDON — Hacking into celebrity phones was just the tip of the iceberg. Britain's media ethics inquiry, set up in response to illegal eavesdrop...

Alastair Campbell At Leveson Inquiry Blasts British Press

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 01.30.2012

LONDON — A small number of journalists have disgraced Britain's press, Tony Blair's former communications chief told a media ethics inquiry, as ...

Tabloid Insiders Share Scandalous Details Of Life At Murdoch Papers

AP | RAPHAEL G. SATTER | Posted 09.19.2011

LONDON — With their former boss under arrest, tabloid reporters are beginning to reveal secrets of what it was like to work in Rebekah Brooks' n...

News Corp 'Deliberately Thwarted' Investigation Into Phone Hacking

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 09.19.2011

News Corp "deliberately" tried to impede the first investigation into the phone hacking scandal, according to a House of Commons committee report. ...

The Rivals Pounce

guardian.co.uk | John Plunkett | Posted 09.14.2011

The owner of the Daily Mail is understood to be planning a new mass-market Sunday tabloid to cash in on the closure of the News of the World. Daily...

Closure Of Paper Brings No Relief To Murdoch As Pressure Mounts On All Sides

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 09.10.2011

The scandal surrounding Rupert Murdoch's British media empire has not lessened, even after the paper at the center of the controversy was closed for g...

WATCH: UK Comedian Tears Into Former News Of The World Editor

Posted 09.08.2011

Comedian Steve Coogan tore into a former editor of the News of the World on Friday, in a rant that boosted the BBC's ratings and drew wide attention. ...

Will Britain's Media Get A Regulator To Be Scared Of?

AP | GREGORY KATZ | Posted 09.08.2011

LONDON — The media throughout the world like to portray themselves as the defender of the public good, a steadfast bulwark against government ex...

UK Media Feels The Heat After Phone-Hack Scandal

AP | RAPHAEL G. SATTER | Posted 09.07.2011

LONDON — As Britain's most powerful Sunday newspaper crashes and burns, newsrooms across London are feeling the heat. Media watchers and former...

British Newspapers Splash Rupert Murdoch's Media Scandal

Posted 09.06.2011

As allegations of phone hacking against Rupert Murdoch-owned British tabloid News of the World mounted -- resulting in the paper's shocking closure --...

Phone-Hacking UK Tabloid To Close

Reuters | Posted 09.06.2011

By Kate Holton (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation will close its tabloid News of the World after this Sunday's edition, as a result ...

Huffington Post UK Launches (VIDEO)

Posted 09.05.2011

Our very own Arianna Huffington visited BBC News this morning to discuss the newly-created HuffPost UK. Joining HuffPost Canada, HuffPost UK is Huf...

Britain's Most Powerful News Show

guardian.co.uk | Posted 08.24.2011

It is credited with being the most influential programme on British radio. The Today Programme on Radio 4, the breakfast listening of choice for opini...

Guardian Making 'Significant' Job Cuts, Editor Says

guardian.co.uk | Josh Halliday | Posted 08.22.2011

The Guardian will make "significant" job cuts over the next two years in the transition to a "digital-first" strategy, the newspaper's editor-in-chief...

It's a Royal Free-for-All!

Charlie Carillo | Posted 05.25.2011

Charlie Carillo

"Royal expert" is a term that covers quite a bit of turf. It's anybody with a British accent, the way anybody in New York with a vowel at the end of his name is an expert on organized crime. Or a criminal.

Russian 'Parasailing' Donkey To Enjoy Good Life After UK Sale

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

MOSCOW — The parasailing donkey will never fly again and can look ahead to a life of luxury. The female donkey Anapka arrived in Moscow on Wedn...

Why Foxy Knoxy Gets No Respect

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

Michael Wolff

Has the US media found itself a new sense of propriety and moral center, or is it just out of it? Too depressed about its future and uncertain of its function to follow even the scent of blood and sex?