UK investigation calls for press watchdog after hacking scandal
By Michael Holden and Kate Holton in London | China Daily | Updated: 2012-11-30 02:55
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A protester wearing a mask depicting Rupert Murdoch, News Corporation chief, as he holds a mock Leveson Report outside the Queen Elizabeth II conference center in London on Thursday. British newspapers faced a day of reckoning with the publication of a major report of an inquiry set up after the phone-hacking scandal. Justin Tallis / Agence France-Presse |
A far-reaching inquiry into British newspapers called for a new independent watchdog enshrined in law to regulate the press, to prevent a repeat of the excesses that led to a phone hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid.
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