News Of The World (NWOT) Shuts down over phone hacking scandal

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It was announced on 7 July 2011 that, after 168 years in print, the newspaper will print its final edition on 10 July 2011 following revelations of the ongoing phone hacking scandal, with the loss of 200 jobs. The paper has announced that all profits from the final edition - 74 pence out of the £1 cover price - will go to "good causes", and advertising space will be given to charities; the remaining 26 pence for each copy goes to retaillers selling the paper and to wholesalers.
Downing Street said it had no role in the decision. James Murdoch has claimed that the company is fully co-operating with ongoing police investigations.

The 10 July 2011 edition of the News of the World carried its final headline, "Thank You and Goodbye", superimposed on top of a collage of past front pages. The back cover featured quotes from George Orwell in 1946, and a recent quote from a NotW reader, Jeanne Hobson. The final edition also included a 48-page pullout documenting the history of the paper. On 9 July 2011, after production of the final edition wrapped, editor Colin Myler led the staff out of the building, where he held a press conference thanking the staff and its readers, concluding, "In the best tradition, we are going to the pub." In the paper's final editorial, the unsigned statement says that "Phones were hacked, and for that this newspaper is truly sorry... there is no justification for this appalling wrongdoing.

There is speculation that News International will launch a Sunday edition of The Sun to replace the News of the World.

News of the World phone hacking: July 7, as it happened - Telegraph

Rupert Murdoch built a news empire around the world which often exulted in a prevarication of the truth, or worse, as news filters in of the shutting down of Britain’s oldest paper, News of the World (NOTW) tabloid, invaded people’s privacy and committed some of the gravest rights violations.

Perhaps some postgrad student will one day study how a country’s nosediving economy is related to its internal obsessions with sex, crime — and royalty. No offence to the love sparks generated by the William-Kate wedding, although the feel-good atmosphere must surely have added a neat sum to Britain’s depleting exchequer.

Hacking into the voice mails of a murder victim, as NOTW did some years ago, revealed over the last few days by The Guardian newspaper, has generated yet another primary emotion, this time around
abhorrence, revulsion and disgust. Britain is riveted by the revelations, especially because there’s a direct link to the Cameron government.

More papers will be sold, more money will be spent on the navel-gazing that is already underway. When so many of your other major policies have failed, such as those around Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, the bad news is bound to fall off page 1. That’s when journalists, only driven by the profit motive, will push the envelope that verges on verbal and visual pornography.

Charged by the media – The Express Tribune

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