[Updated at 12:00 p.m.] The scandal-hit British tabloid News of the World will shut down after Sunday's issue, its owner, News International, told CNN Thursday.
All revenue for Sunday's final edition of the scandal-hit tabloid the News of the World will go to good causes, News Corp. executive James Murdoch said Thursday in announcing the closure of the 168-year-old newspaper.
Journalists at News of the World, a tabloid that is the world's top-selling English-language newspaper, have been accused of hacking into the mobile phone account of missing British teenager Milly Dowler, intercepting messages in search of news.
They then allegedly deleted messages to keep her mailbox from filling up, giving her family and friends false hope that the schoolgirl - later found murdered - was still alive.
Police also are investigating suggestions the paper - known for its exposes of celebrities and politicians - may have targeted the relatives of other high profile crime victims, including at least one of those killed in the 2005 London bombings.
The news comes after the officer leading the investigation said they have identified nearly 4,000 potential victims of illegal eavesdropping by a private investigator working for the tabloid.
The illegal eavesdropping by Britain's scandal-hit News of the World tabloid "sullied" the newspaper and "has no place in our company," News International chairman James Murdoch said Thursday.
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Next stop...Faux News!
Rupert Murdock owner of Fox news liberal?????
S C U M doesn't fall too far from the S C U M B A G!
Rupert Murdoch owns this newpaper as well as Fox News Corp...........pretty sure Fox News would take offense to being called liberal
Fox news is a right wing propaganda machine,just as MSNBC has turned into the anti-Fox liberal propaganda network
only an idiot would watch any of the 24 hour cable news networks
you can just get online and get the news without hearing the talking heads babbling away
Despite the fact that they knew they were lying,cheating eavesdroppng, Fox News takes the cash and runs.
This story has nothing to do with Fox news. The 2 are completely independent of each other. Hope you enjoy your haterade.
When any organization is profit or investor driven then this is what happens. 168 year old newspaper gone, jobs gone, and there will be a rippling effect. Reputation, gone.
How long to Rupert Murdoch own this piece of news media?
A whole lot of soft shoe tap dancing here. Who is actually responsible, who is doing it, and who authorized these persons to jeopardize the jobs and the company? Was it just reporters, which ones? Did the editors OK these acts, who are they.
nah nah nah, nah...nah nah nah, nah...hey hey hey...good, BYE!
Your all mice the world is run by hedge fund owners you need 250 million in capitol to even own a piece of a decent company were sheep in a heard
I am impressed with the decisive and sweeping decision to shut the paper down. Refreshing.
1) media mafia's surveillance of the peons on behalf of global financial terrorists is no scandal but the norm.
2) the mafia want you slaves to know that they not only own you but also control what you hear and know what you say.
you didn't expose their practice. they want you to know what they are capable of doing and willing to do, to keep you in your place through intimidation.
No more Fox Fake News? The whole trailer park is outraged!
Once again, this story is NOT about Fox News. You liberals are sooooo brainwashed. Just a bunch of lil lemmings accepting everything the liberal media tells ya.
I see you all are taking your cues from the commander-in-chief, calling names and making people who don't agree with you your enemy. Sad to see that grown-ups cannot agree to disagree. Sad to see that Americans cannot come together and get over ourselves to try to bring this country back to greatness. So much easier to sit in your nice comfy chairs at home and blast someone else for your problems. The left blames the right, the right blame the left, poor blame the rich, rich blame the poor. Just stop it already. Every heard the phrase "together we stand, divided we fall"? Well, guess where we are headed......
When you compare your opening sentence with the rest of your post...it becomes painfully obvious how much of a hypocrite you are. Good work.
madoshi–there was nothing hypocritical about this post.....
Money drives the news and what is relevant. Rupert has lots and tried to run things so it made him more and more profits and supported his causes. Yet another reason not to watch Fox News...even with my tin foil hat on.