At News International there was a large hacking scandal whereby the police had got Levenson involved. The Leveson inquiry was public and was involved in the British press’s culture, practices, and ethics. The Leveson report was released in November 2012, which examined the culture and ethics of the press and presented proposals for a new body to replace the existing Press Complaints Commission.

The Leveson inquiry, led by judge Sir Brian Leveson, started in 2011. This was after it was found that journalists at Rupert Murdoch’s now unusable News of the World tabloid hacked the phone of a murdered school girl Milly Dowler.