Dr Evan Harris, former Director of Hacked Off and now a legal analyst to the successful claimants against Mirror Group Newspapers over phone hacking and other unlawful information gathering, deconstructs former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan’s statement on the damning judgement against the firm last week.
Journalism
Following the landmark judgment against the Mirror Group in the High Court, Byline Times is reprinting Paddy French's June 2015 Press Gang article about Piers Morgan and unlawful information gathering
Scotland Yard and News UK are continuing to investigate serious allegations about the conduct of Dan Wootton following this newspaper's special investigation into the journalist and presenter
As Scotland Yard probes the journalist Dan Wootton over allegations of blackmail and serial sexual catfishing after a three-year special investigation by Byline Times, this newspaper can now reveal
how his payments to the partner
of a top royal aide forced the
Duke and Duchess of Sussex to run
from the UK
In 2020, Simon Case was tasked to investigate payments from Dan Wootton and The Sun to the partner of a royal press officer, allegedly for information about Prince Harry and Meghan. He found there was no evidence of wrongdoing. But Byline Times can shed further light
Detailed but anonymous testimony from insiders at The Sun sat at the heart of cash-for-leaks allegations involving a royal official and the newspaper’s former top editor Dan Wootton. Now, Byline Times can publish the details for the first time
Journalist Nick Davies talks to Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber in Prospect magazine's 'Media Confidential’ podcast about the new revelations from the settlement by News Group Newspapers
The media company has now paid to settle a claim that alleges the involvement in, or at least the knowledge of, illegal activities by senior executives
Former BBC producer and reporter Patrick Howse explores why the cuts announced to the corporation's flagship news programme are another damning, but unsurprising, blow to its reputation