THE LATEST DEVELOPMENT: A blogger published what he said were more than 1,000 recorded transactions between journalists and a private investigator who was convicted of trading in illegally obtained information.
THE STATED REASON: In a blog post, Paul Staines said he wanted to expose the "industrial scale criminality" perpetrated by Britain's press.
THE SIGNIFIANCE: This poses another potential embarrassment for the U.K.'s scandal-tarred media.
