The coverage of Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry into phone hacking by the British press, released on Thursday, have focused on its findings of pervasive misdeeds, especially at Rupert Murdoch's now-defunct News of the World, and its recommendation that a powerful new government watchdog is necessary to prevent future abuses. Lost
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Recent changes at the New York Daily News, now run by former Rupert Murdoch man and ex–News of the World editor Colin Myler, have included high-profile exits and hirings, as well as some strategic (more British) shifts. But since the Fleet Street boss took over at the start of 2012,
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The New York Daily News has hired a replacement for Scott Cohen, its Digital Editor who left last week. Capital New York reports that Colin Myler has brought a fellow Brit aboard: Ted Young, formerly the editor of the Daily Mail’s website,...Show More Summary
Among the many damning quotes featured in the British panel’s report on Rupert Murdoch and News International, there was the revelation that Colin Myler, the current New York Daily News Editor-in-Chief, was charged with misleading Parliament during his testimony. The allegations apparently didn’t bother Mort Zuckerman. Show More Summary
Les Hinton, Tom Crone and Colin Myler all misled Parliament, DCMS Ctte rule. — Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) May 1, 2012 Most explosive finding of MPs re hacking: Rupert Murdoch not a “fit person” to run a major international company. — Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) May 1, 2012 Real political divisions coming out. Tory MP Philip Davies [...]
MPs hold back from naming names. But are they being legally prudent - or protecting Cameron?
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FORMER News of the World editor Colin Myler and ex-News International lawyer Tom Crone...Show More Summary
In Britain, being "called to the bar" isn't nearly as fun as it sounds. A long-awaited Parliamentary report on the phone-hacking scandal that has engulfed Rupert Murdoch’s British media empire is scheduled for release Tuesday morning (London time), and has already begun to leak. The Guardian and ITV report that
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Rupert Murdoch, during another round of testimony before Parliament, apologized for the phone hacking scandal in one of the best ways to apologize that we’ve ever come across. Murdoch, according to The New York Times, said that he “was...Show More Summary
Rupert Murdoch testified today that "one or two very strong characters" working at his now-closed News of the World tabloid tried to keep the widespread nature of the phone-hacking scandal not only from the public, but from him. Murdoch said he was "misinformed and shielded" from the realities at the
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In this week's New York, Steve Fishman writes about Colin Myler, formerly an editor in Rupert Murdoch's tabloid empire and now the top editor at the rival New York Daily News. After a stint at Murdoch's New York Post under current boss Col Allan, Myler became the final editor of ... More »
Colin Myler, the New York Daily News’ Editor-in-Chief and former News of The World editor, is coming under fire for allegedly intimidating British investigators. The Guardian reports that while Myler was editor of News of The World,Show More Summary
James Murdoch has gone on the attack against Colin Myler, currently editor of the New York Daily News. In a letter to Parliament released yesterday he accused Myler, the former editor of News of the World, of concealing the extent of illegal phone hacking at the British tabloid.Myler was editor ... More »
The news that Kevin Convey was out as editor of the New York Daily News after less than 24 months, in favor of Colin Myler, late of the (late) News of the World, reminded us how precarious life has been for Daily News editors since Zuckerman bought the paper in 1993. It also had a delicious subtext: Myler, who challenged...
New revelations in the News Of The World phone-hacking scandal have emerged over the past day. A 2008 email from the paper’s then editor Colin Myler to James Murdoch in which Myler alerted Murdoch of alleged rife phone hacking practices,...Show More Summary
CNN host Piers Morgan knows a thing or two about running a daily newspaper, having run apair of tabloids in the U.K. He also knows a thing or two the new editor of the New York Daily News, Colin Myler.
“I replaced [Myler] at the Daily Mirror,” Morgan recalled over lunch Friday morning. Show More Summary
Real estate developer and media mogul Mort Zuckerman has picked Colin Myler to be the new top editor for his New York tabloid, the Daily News. That's a surprising choice on at least a couple of accounts. One is that Myler's last job was at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World,which was shut down while he [...]
Former News of the World editor Colin Myler - the paper's last edtior, in charge during the fallout after the phone-hacking scandal - is to become editor-in-chief at the New York Daily News, where his key rival will be Murdoch's...
New York Post | Guardian “It’s going to be fun … there is a touch of irony about it,” said Colin Myler about competing with News Corp.’s New York Post six months after losing his job as editor of… Read more
Obviously Kevin Convey doesn’t wear the right kind of shoes. World came Wednesday afternoon that Convey, a former Boston Herald editor, was being replaced as editor of the New York Daily News (via Poynter). The new boss: Colin Myler, who was editor of Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World when it was shut down amid [...]
Emma Bazilian, Adweek
Colin Myler, who presided over the British tabloid when it was shut down amid phone hacking allegations, replaces Kevin Convey at the paper. read more