Friday, April 6, 2012

UK - Sky News, a 24-hour news channel in the U.K., twice authorized its reporters to hack into emails of suspected criminals but said the actions were "editorially justified" and in "the public interest."

The disclosure adds to the intensified scrutinty of British reporting tactics. Sky News is a unit of British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC, which itself is 39.1%-owned by News Corp., whose U.K. newspapers have been at the center of a storm over reporting methods. (more)