Cameron announces tough press probe

The independent inquiry into phone hacking will have the power to summon newspaper proprietors, journalists, police and politicians to give evidence under oath and in public, British Prime Minister David Cameron said today.

Mr Cameron named Lord Justice Leveson as the chair of the inquiry, which will look into the ethics and culture of the British media as well as the specific claims about phone hacking at the News of the World, the shortcomings of the initial police inquiry, and allegations of illicit payments to police by the press.