Journalistic Ethics: James Murdoch appears at Leveson Inquiry - by Sam Marsden

James Murdoch is being grilled in London today about his stewardship of News International during the years when the phone-hacking scandal was growing.

The media boss is being asked asked about his time in charge of his father's UK national newspapers when he gives evidence to the Leveson Inquiry into press standards. He is likely to face fresh questions about when he learned that phone-hacking was not restricted to a single “rogue reporter”.

Two News of the World executives claim they warned him in June 2008 that the practice of illegally intercepting voicemail messages extended beyond the paper's former royal editor Clive Goodman, who was jailed in January 2007..

Mr Murdoch, 39, admitted last month that he shares the blame for not uncovering hacking sooner but denied turning a “blind eye” to alleged wrongdoing.

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