Memo: NY Post lawyers tell staffers ‘to preserve and maintain documents’ related to phone-hacking

[Newsjock]

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/romenesko/141170/new-york-post-lawyers-tells-staffers-to-preserve-and-maintain-documents-related-to-phone-hacking

NOTICE OF OBLIGATION TO PRESERVE DOCUMENTS

Dear New York Post Colleagues,

As you have undoubtedly seen, there have been press accounts of inquiries into whether employees or agents of News Corporation or its subsidiaries have (a) accessed telephone and/or other personal data of third-parties without authorization, and/or (b) made unlawful payments to government officials in order to obtain information. As you also know, these stem from the actions at The News of the World in London, as well as unsourced, unsubstantiated reports in one London tabloid.

Starting today, all employees must preserve and maintain all documents and information that are related in any way to the above mentioned issues.

Please know we are sending this notice not because any recipient has done anything improper or unlawful. However, given what has taken place in London, we believe that taking this step will help to underscore how seriously we are taking this matter.

[aquart]

1. Never mind the Post. What about Fox?