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Police estimate that 5,500 people were 'likely' or 'potential' victims of News of the World phone hacking. This figure may rise as new evidence comes to light. Due to the incomplete, inconclusive and sometimes incoherent nature of the evidence, we will never know exactly how many people were hacked by the News of the World. Phone hacking was one of a range of methods of gathering personal information, and was often one of the less directly intrusive. Others included blagging, pinging, paying informants and tailing. 69% of the 591 victims of phone hacking analysed for this report were not public figures. Many of these non-public victims were closely connected to a public figure – their partner or ex-partner, a work colleague, a friend, a parent, a son or daughter, or sibling. Less than a third of the primary targets came from the world of entertainment or music. The rest were from sport, politics, journalism, the police, the Royal Household, the law, and the military, amongst others. In just under one in ten cases the people targeted had been caught up in a personal tragedy – for example a relative had died or been murdered, a drug trial had gone wrong, or they had been injured in a terrorist attack. It is notable that four consecutive Home Secretaries from 1997 to 2007 are reported to have been hacked, as well as many senior officers from the Metropolitan police. The information gained through hacking was sometimes recorded, sometimes transcribed, sometimes destroyed. It is not known if any of the information gained has been kept. Though we do not know, in many cases, what information was gathered or kept, we know the destructive impact phone hacking had on some of the victims thanks to testimony given at the Leveson Inquiry and during the phone hacking trial in 2014. This report focuses on the actions and consequences of one newspaper, the News of the World. Mirror Group Newspapers has since admitted liability for phone hacking and many more people are now taking legal action.

This paper examines the setting up and managing of 'Election Unspun', an experimental news content analysis project, and its main findings. In the end, the project collected every tweet from more than 3,000 political actors and influencers, analysed the national newspapers' coverage and websites of ITV News, Sky News and Channel 4 News and the UK versions of the Huffington Post and Buzzfeed Politics during the 2015 general election campaign in the UK. It concludes that, despite the plethora of media platforms available, 2015 was a top down, stage-managed campaign. From the statements, tweets and party political material published by the parties, the party leaders, and the candidates it was clear that both the Conservatives and Labour were eager to talk about the economy, and the press largely followed their lead.