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Geoff Webster
Geoff Webster (born Geoffrey B. Webster; 1959) is the deputy editor of '' The Sun'' newspaper in the UK (currently suspended due to criminal charges brought under Operation Elveden). Move to the ''Sun'' newspaper In 2003 the deputy editor of the ''News of the World'', Rebekah Brooks, was appointed editor of the ''Sun'' newspaper. Shortly after arriving Brooks moved Webster from his job as associate editor/head of pictures at the News of the World, appointing him associate editor at the Sun, effectively making him "third in command" on the paper. Promotion Webster was promoted to joint deputy editor of the ''Sun'', along with Simon Cosyns, when David Dinsmore replaced Brooks as editor in 2009. Criminal charges Webster was arrested and charged with conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office as part of Operation Elveden. One of the charges relates to an alleged payment of £6,500 to a Ministry of Defence official, with a further £1,500 allegedly going to another p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Dudman
Graham Dudman (born 2 October 1963) is the current Managing Editor of '' The Sun'' newspaper. On 28 January 2012, the BBC said it understood Dudman had been arrested in relation to the News International phone hacking scandal, by detectives investigating payments made to police by journalists. In October 2014, Dudman's trial on four charges of conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office began, along with that of five other senior staff and journalists at '' The Sun'' newspaper. The trial related to illegal payments allegedly made to public officials, with prosecutors saying Dudman and the co-accused conspired to pay officials including police, prison officers and soldiers from 2002–11. Specifically, Dudman and his co-defendants faced accusations of buying confidential information about the Royal Family, celebrities and prison inmates. They all denied the charges. On 17 April 2015, the Crown Prosecution Service The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is the principal p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Male Journalists
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People Associated With The News International Phone Hacking Scandal
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Living People
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1959 Births
Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of Earth's Moon, and was also the first spacecraft to be placed in heliocentric orbit. * January 3 ** The three southernmost atolls of the Maldive archipelago ( Addu Atoll, Huvadhu Atoll and Fuvahmulah island) declare independence. ** Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state. * January 4 ** In Cuba, rebel troops led by Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos enter the city of Havana. ** Léopoldville riots: At least 49 people are killed during clashes between the police and participants of a meeting of the ABAKO Party in Léopoldville in the Belgian Congo. * January 6 ** Fidel Castro arrives in Havana. ** The International Maritime Organization is inaugurated. * January 7 – The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominic Mohan
Dominic Mohan (born 26 May 1969) is a British journalist, broadcaster, businessman/ entrepreneur, author and former editor of '' The Sun'' newspaper in London. He is now Founder/CEO of his own media consultancy Dominic Mohan Media, specialising in communications, public relations, crisis management and content creation. Mohan was born in Bristol, but his family moved to Cambridgeshire when he was 10 years old. He attended the Neale-Wade Community College in March, before graduating from Southampton University in English. While studying for his degree he wrote for and then edited ''Wessex News'' (now ''Wessex Scene''), the Southampton University student newspaper, and won a scholarship to study English and Journalism at Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA. He joined ''The Sun'' in 1996, working on the "Bizarre" Column and editing it between 1998 and 2003. He then became Assistant Editor and columnist before being made Associate Editor (Features) in 2004. Mohan was appointed dep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Independent
''The Independent'' is a British online newspaper. It was established in 1986 as a national morning printed paper. Nicknamed the ''Indy'', it began as a broadsheet and changed to tabloid format in 2003. The last printed edition was published on Saturday 26 March 2016, leaving only the online edition. The newspaper was controlled by Tony O'Reilly's Irish Independent News & Media from 1997 until it was sold to the Russian oligarch and former KGB Officer Alexander Lebedev in 2010. In 2017, Sultan Muhammad Abuljadayel bought a 30% stake in it. The daily edition was named National Newspaper of the Year at the 2004 British Press Awards. The website and mobile app had a combined monthly reach of 19,826,000 in 2021. History 1986 to 1990 Launched in 1986, the first issue of ''The Independent'' was published on 7 October in broadsheet format.Dennis Griffiths (ed.) ''The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1422–1992'', London & Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992, p. 330 It was produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadline Hollywood
''Deadline Hollywood'', commonly known as ''Deadline'' and also referred to as ''Deadline.com'', is an online news site founded as the news blog ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' by Nikki Finke in 2006. The site is updated several times a day, with entertainment industry news as its focus. It has been a brand of Penske Media Corporation since 2009. History ''Deadline'' was founded by Nikki Finke, who began writing an '' LA Weekly'' column series called ''Deadline Hollywood'' in June 2002. She began the ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' (DHD) blog in March 2006 as an online version of her column. She officially launched it as an entertainment trade website in 2006. The site became one of Hollywood's most followed websites by 2009. In 2009, Finke sold ''Deadline'' to Penske Media Corporation (then Mail.com Media) for a low-seven-figure sum. Finke was also given a five-year-plus employment contract reported by the ''Los Angeles Times'' as being worth "millions of dollars", as well as part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Bailey
The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, commonly referred to as the Old Bailey after the street on which it stands, is a criminal court building in central London, one of several that house the Crown Court of England and Wales. The street outside follows the route of the ancient wall around the City of London, which was part of the fortification's '' bailey'', hence the metonymic name. The Old Bailey has been housed in a succession of court buildings on the street since the sixteenth century, when it was attached to the medieval Newgate gaol. The current main building block was completed in 1902, designed by Edward William Mountford; its architecture is recognised and protected as a Grade II* listed building. An extension South Block was constructed in 1972, over the former site of Newgate gaol which was demolished in 1904. The Crown Court sitting in the Old Bailey hears major criminal cases from within Greater London. In exceptional cases, trials may be referred t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dear Deidre
''Dear Deidre'' was the British newspaper '' The Sun's'' long running agony aunt column written by Deidre Sanders.Archie Blan"The agony and the ecstasy: Why 'Dear Deidre' Sanders is still solving problems, 30 years on" ''The Independent'', 4 October 2009 ''Dear Deidre'' is also a phone-in section on the long-running British daytime TV programme '' This Morning'', where the section has viewers calling live on the show asking for help from Deidre Sanders. June Deidre Sanders (born 9 June 1945), a graduate of Sheffield University, was responsible for the feature which bears her name since November 1980 until her retirement at the end of 2020. On 27 September 2022, Sanders announced during an interview with ''This Morning'' that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer Breast cancer is cancer that develops from breast tissue. Signs of breast cancer may include a lump in the breast, a change in breast shape, dimpling of the skin, milk rejection, fluid coming from the nipple, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Greenslade
Roy Greenslade (born 31 December 1946) is a British author and freelance journalist, and a former professor of journalism. He worked in the UK newspaper industry from the 1960s onwards. As a media commentator, he wrote a daily blog from 2006 to 2018 for ''The Guardian'' and a column for London's ''Evening Standard'' from 2006 to 2016. Under a pseudonym, Greenslade also wrote for the Sinn Féin newspaper ''An Phoblacht'' during the late 1980s whilst also working on Fleet Street. In 2021, it was reported in ''The Times'' newspaper, citing an article by Greenslade in the '' British Journalism Review'', that he supported the bombing campaign of the Provisional IRA. Following this revelation, Greenslade resigned as Honorary Visiting Professor at City, University of London. Early life and career Greenslade's father was an insurance clerk, and his mother was a book-keeper. The family lived initially with his mother's parents in Dulwich before moving to a council house in South Ockendo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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