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By James Doleman

August 1, 2014 | 2 min read

Leading British investigative journalist Nick Davies gave an impassioned plea for a more ethical press at the launch of his book, Hack attack, in London last night.

Davies, who is widely credited with breaking the phone-hacking story in a series of articles in the Guardian newspaper, spoke to an invited audience which included actor Steve Coogan and convicted phone-hacker Dan Evans.

Speaking to the audience, he thanked former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan for branding him "ghastly" on Twitter, saying: "I think I have arrived."

Davies ended his speech by attacking a "media mogul" who, he said, had "endlessly accumulated money and power" and who emplyoyed editors "who can't see what was wrong with exposing people's privacy... and ruining them."

However, while Davies acknowledged the impact uncovering the scandal had, he concluded: "For a while, we snatched a handful of power away from one man. We did nothing to change the power of the elite."

Hack attack, which has already been called the most "panoramic" view of the phone-hacking scandal yet written, is available in bookshops and online from today.

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