Vodafone's 'unforgivable' hacking of journalist's phone must be investigated, says union

Vodafone has admitted an employee accessed a Fairfax journalist’s phone data in 2011 after she revealed a serious data breach by the companyAustralia’s Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance has called on the privacy commissioner to investigate the circumstances of the “unforgivable” hacking of a journalist’s phone data.On Saturday the Australian published leaked emails that detailed how a day after Fairfax journalist Natalie O’Brien revealed a serious data breach by Vodafone in 2011, there were discussions at Vodafone about unauthorised access to her call charge records and text messages. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2015-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An Italian investigative journalist claims to have discovered the identity of pseudonymous author Elena Ferrante to the anger and frustration of the literary community. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan acquires journalist's memoir of coercive abuse

Pan Macmillan has acquired a memoir of coercive abuse by Helen Walmsley-Johnson, a Guardian commentator and author of The Invisible Woman (Icon Books). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sunday Times journalist Hornak signs two with Little, Brown

Little, Brown has acquired two books by journalist Francesca Hornak for a "significant" five-figure sum. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Coronet buys journalist's story of a 'no spend year'

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[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Story of Turkish journalist's arrest to Biteback

Biteback Publishing is to release We Are Arrested: A Journalist’s Notes from a Turkish Prison by journalist Can Dündar. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jack Fuller, Prizewinning Chicago Tribune Journalist, Dies at 69

Jack Fuller won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing at The Chicago Tribune and later became Tribune Publishing’s president. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2016-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Military investigates two Camp Pendleton Marines for apparently Orlando-related post

A social media post that seemingly references Sunday’s mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub has led to an investigation of two active-duty Camp Pendleton Marines. The Camp Pendleton-based 1st Marine Expeditionary Force said Thursday that it is looking into a photo posted in a Facebook group... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Three Phone Calls a Father Receives After His Daughter’s Been Shot

This article was first published by the Trace, a nonprofit news organization that covers gun violence in America. You can sign up for its newsletter here, or follow its reporting on Facebook or Twitter. Continue reading at Slate

[ Slate | 2016-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Some Very Ugly Fish Star in This Bizarre Ad About Investigative Journalism

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[ AdWeek | 2016-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Zed Books' Facebook page removal 'result of hacking'

Zed Books’ Facebook page was removed after it became the victim of hacking, the publisher now believes. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Shakespeare 'digital library wallpaper' from British Library and Vodafone

Vodafone and the British Library have partnered to make some of the earliest and rarest editions of Shakespeare’s plays available to download from specially-designed wallpaper featuring virtual library bookshelves. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Prowse moves to Lake Union Publishing from HOZ

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[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Journalist Barr’s début novel to Bloomsbury

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[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tax evasion investigation to Profile

Profile Books has signed Moneyland: Where the Rich Go to Escape Democracy, journalist Oliver Bullough’s investigation into a global system of tax evasion. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BBC investigation finds 8,000 library jobs lost in six years

Widespread library closures across the UK have resulted in the loss of almost 8,000 jobs in the last six years, according to a report by the BBC. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former Gawker editors on the Hogan trial aftermath: 'It's about what journalists can cover'

Is it a blog? A magazine? A conversation? A tasteless drunken boor at a party? Perhaps all of this and more over 14 years of innovative web journalismAfter the verdict awarding former pro wrestler Hulk Hogan $140m in punitive damages following Gawker’s publication of a clip showing him engaged... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2016-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Investigations co-presenter pens Parliament probe for Hodder

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[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers pushed to loss as value of publishing rights falls and £50m is set aside to deal with continuing cost of hacking scandalThe publisher of the Sun has recorded a loss of more than £250m after making a huge write-down and paying out further costs associated... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2016-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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4th Estate to publish journalist's account of township murder

HarperCollins imprint 4th Estate is to publish the account of journalist Justine van der Leun's investigation into the 1993 murder of an American woman titled We Are Not Such Things. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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