MPs prepare to question James Murdoch over phone hacking

LONDON, Nov 10 (BBC): This round-up of Thursday's main media news reports on new questions facing James Murdoch today. News International chairman James Murdoch will face MPs' questions later after apparent discrepancies in phone-hacking evidence he gave this summer, reports BBC News. It says the culture, media and sport committee is likely to press him on what he knew of the illegal practice at NI's News of the World. Meanwhile, the NoW's ex-chief reporter, Neville Thurlbeck, has claimed the paper did not act on information he gave it about hacking. The Guardian adds that Neville Thurlbeck has rejected a request by Metropolitan police officers to help in their phone-hacking investigation. Roy Greenslade says: "It is known that the police took key documents from Thurlbeck's home... Among them is said to be a copy of a 2009 memo which Thurlbeck says he sent to the paper's former editor, Colin Myler, and its legal manager, Tom Crone, in which he made serious allegations about a News of the World executive's involvement in hacking."