Leveson Report

• British newspapers agree to new regulator

  Britain's newspapers agreed to create an independent press regulator as recommended by the Leveson report, but refused to commit to its controversial proposal for statutory backing.

• UK inquiry says politicians got too close to the media

  Britain needs a new independent media regulator to eliminate a subculture of unethical behavior that infected segments of the country's press, a senior judge said on Thursday at the end of a yearlong inquiry into newspaper wrongdoing.

• UK phone hacking scandal: Leveson report to be released today amid censorship fears

  Prime Minister David Cameron failed to offer any clues on Wednesday on whether he will support new more stringent regulation of Britain's press following the conclusion of a yearlong inquiry into the country's unruly tabloids.

• Phone-hacking 'perfectly acceptable': Ex-NOTW journalist

  A former News of the World journalist Tuesday told Britain's phone-hacking inquiry the practice was "perfectly acceptable", while a reporter who helped reveal the scandal accused some media of bullying. On a day when the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics switched its focus from alleged victims of hacking to journalists, the probe heard tabloid jour...