News International phone hacking scandal 2007. "The "News of the World" legal manager Tom Crone attended virtually every meeting of my legal team and was given full access to the Crown Prosecution Service's evidence files." according to Clive Goodman's letter. The effect of the phone hacking scandal originating with the "News of the World" also raised wider questions about the ethics employed by companies under Murdoch's ownership, as well as the effects the scandal will have on the ethics employed specifically by print journalists and to some extent the wider world of journalism. Murdoch had previously been criticised for building a media empire that lacked
2009–2011 News of the World phone hacking scandal investigations people to warn them that they might have been victims of phone hacking. The Metropolitan Police announced on 26 January 2011, that it would begin a new and fresh investigation into the phone hacking affair, following the receipt of "significant new information" regarding the conduct of "News of the World" employees. Operation Weeting would take place alongside the previously announced review of phone hacking evidence by the Crown Prosecution Service. In December 2009, a parliamentary question was tabled about the possible tapping of minister Tessa Jowell's phone. Tom Watson, the Labour MP for West Bromwich East, played a key role