British police have found evidence that private investigators working for newspapers hacked into the email account of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown while he was finance minister, The Independent newspaper reported on Monday.
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Daniel Tovrov
Dec 29, 2011
Publicist Scotty Dugan died while en route to the funeral of slain music executive and film producer John Atterberry on Wednesday of as-yet-undetermined causes, TheWrap has confirmed. He was 52.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 23, 2011
State media in both countries did not mention the fraudulent flag.
Palash Ghosh
Dec 23, 2011
A paradigm shift regarding U.S. energy policy on oil has to occur. No, it won’t occur given the current make-up of the U.S. Congress, but eventually, for energy independence reasons, a paradigm shift is mandatory.
Joseph Lazzaro
Dec 22, 2011
Al-Jazeera's good year just got a whole lot better.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 21, 2011
The Ethiopian government considers ONLF a terrorist group.
Palash Ghosh
Dec 21, 2011
Former Miss Venezuela Eva Ekvall, who died of breast cancer at a very young age of 28 Saturday, proved in her short span of life how a woman could put up a brave fight against the affliction.
Drishya Nair
Dec 21, 2011
At least 43 journalists were killed worldwide in direct relation to their work this year according to the year-end survey on journalists killed in the line of duty by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) .
Bhaskar Prasad
Dec 21, 2011
As sales of tablets surge, the fortunes of newspaper publishers may soon begin to turn.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 19, 2011
Nothing sharpened Christopher Hitchens' mind like cancer.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 18, 2011
Morgan will face questions via video link Tuesday before the Leveson Inquiry about the News of the World hacking scandal.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 18, 2011
Did AOL's Patch, a network of hyperlocal news websites, lose more than $100 million this year?
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 17, 2011
The first woman to head NYT and a pioneer of digital media, Robinson's abrupt departure as head of The Times Co. has left analysts and insiders baffled, with many speculating that plummeting stocks pressured the CEO, the first woman to head NYT, to quit and others wondering who will replace Robinson after her unexplained exit.
Melanie Jones
Dec 16, 2011
Janet Robinson will step down as chief executive of the New York Times Co. at the end of the month, as the company continues to struggle with advertising declines and a years-long slump in its share price.
Eric Linton
Dec 15, 2011
JumpTime, a Los-Angeles based technology company, has hired media veteran Elizabeth Osder as SVP of Strategy & Business Development.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 14, 2011
Los Angeles Times editor Russ Stanton will step down this month and be replaced by the managing editor for news, the newspaper said on Tuesday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 14, 2011
Actor Tom Sizemore's personal woes with drug addiction have kept the media busy, and now they'll be available in book form in his own words.
Cristina Merrill
Dec 14, 2011
Bart Heller made murder-suicide confession on Facebook Saturday that he shot and killed ex-girlfriend, Erin Jehl and her friend Ryann Tipton, both 19-years-old, along with himself after a love triangle went wrong.
Nadine DeNinno
Dec 13, 2011
The stronger the villain, the more the hero has to win in the end. That was the thinking process of Jerry Robinson, a legend of the Golden Age of DC Comics, when he created the Joker, the greatest Batman villain of all time. I interviewed Robinson in 2008: here are the comics legend's thoughts on Batman, Heath Ledger and the future of comics.
Melanie Jones
Dec 08, 2011
Crystal Cox, a self-proclaimed investigative blogger, has been ordered to pay $2.5 million for defamation.
Cavan Sieczkowski
Dec 08, 2011
The company will partner with New York-based ProPublica, the Chicago Reporter, Philadelphia-based WHYY Radio and Los Angeles-based KPCC Radio.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 06, 2011