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Brooks becomes editor of tabloid The Sun
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The News of the World publishes a story on a knee injury suffered by Prince William
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Detectives arrest the News of the World's royal editor Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire over allegations that they hacked into the mobile phones of members of the royal household.
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royal affairs editor Clive Goodman is jailed for four months. Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire is given a six-month prison term. Goodman and Mulcaire admitted conspiring to intercept communications
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Andy Coulson becomes the Conservative Party's director of communications under leader David Cameron.
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James Murdoch is made chief executive of News Corporation's European and Asian operations.
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James Murdoch agrees to pay Gordon Taylor £700,000 to settle a phone hacking claim.
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: Rebekah Brooks becomes CEO of News International.
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It emerges that News of the World reporters, with the knowledge of senior staff, illegally accessed messages from the mobile phones
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, Rebekah Brooks leaves The Sun to become the chief executive of News International.
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Lord Leveson begins his inquiry