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She worried the tabloid — what she considered a "tawdry rag" — would drag down the generations-old Murdoch media company. Copyright 2011 National Public Radio. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.

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Britain's prime minister called Monday for an emergency session of Parliament to discuss the phone-hacking and bribery scandal at the now-defunct News Of The World, as authorities said they may open a wider investigation of the tabloid's owner, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.Prime Minister Davi

British broadcaster Sky News is reporting that former News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brooks has been arrested.According to the Associated Press, British police arrested a 43-year-old woman Sunday in the investigation of phone hacking charges by the defunct tabloid, News of the Wo

The former editor of the News of the World tabloid stepped down Friday as CEO of Rupert Murdoch's British media company, amid a scandal over hacked cellphones that has prompted investigations on both sides of the Atlantic.Rebekah Brooks was editor of the News between 2000 and 2003

"Thank You and Goodbye" was the headline of Britain's biggest selling newspaper Sunday, The News of the World. After 168 years, amid an escalating scandal of phone hacking, the paper published its last issue.With the last edition of the tabloid in hand, Rupert Murdoch descended on the U.K.