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The News of the World was a weekly national " red top" tabloid newspaper published every Sunday in the United Kingdom from 1843 to 2011. It was at one time the world's highest-selling English-language newspaper, and at closure still had one of the highest English-language circulations. [4] It was originally established as a broadsheet by John Browne Bell, who identified crime, sensation and vice as the themes that would sell most copies. [5] The Bells sold to Henry Lascelles Carr in 1891; in 1969, it was bought from the Carrs by Rupert Murdoch's media firm News Limited. Reorganised into News International, a subsidiary of News Corporation, the newspaper was transformed into a tabloid in 1984 and became the Sunday sister paper of The Sun. The good things the News of the World does, however, have been sullied by behaviour that was wrong. Indeed, if recent allegations are true, it was inhuman and has no place in our Company. Over on Alan Rusbridger's live Q&A my colleague Roy Greenslade has pitched in with a couple of informative replies.
a b Taylor, DJ (8 July 2011). "Opinion". The Independent (Commentatorsed.). UK. For 168 years, New of the World was as English as roast beef. No one was going to buy this paper any more. No one was going to advertise in it. They destroyed this paper. One of his private objectives when he became leader was at some point to challenge the debased media culture in Britain. Suddenly his objective becomes public and he will not be torn apart by The Sun this morning or the News of the World on Sunday. It is impossible to overestimate the degree to which, until this week, Murdoch's newspapers were stifling the voice of another scared party leader. He accused Cameron of not showing leadership on this issue. Cameron was "two steps behind public opinion", he said. There were emotional scenes at the newspaper's headquarters in Wapping earlier as editor Colin Myer led his journalists out for the final time to rapturous applause and cheering.The Screws has been screwed. Indeed, it screwed itself. But now, to continue the analogy, it's time to nail the truth. Asked to comment on whether David Cameron's perceived relationship with the Murdoch empire had damaged the Tory leader, Johnson said: The feeling in the City is that the News Corp deal will go ahead, but if Jeremy Hunt does bow to pressure and suspend the bid then investors will have to wait longer to cash in their shares. Many hedge funds have bought into BSkyB since the bid was launched in June 2010, and until recently were expecting a healthy profit - and soon. Sky News reported that NI chief executive Rebekah Brooks was in tears as she told staff the title is to close.
ChrisBryantMP Just decided I'm not doing my weekly shop in tesco this evening following their decision to continue advertising with #NOTW Almost all of the companies still advertising in the Screws are mobile phone networks. Alanis Morissette would call that "ironic". Under the leadership of editor Colin Myler, we have all worked hard to pull this paper from the shadow of its dark past. So it was nothing short of tragic to walk into the office on Saturday, knowing that this issue will be the last.As a FTSE 100 company, BSkyB shares can be found in virtually all pension funds in the UK. The question for UK pension providers is whether the takeover of BSkyB by NewsCorp is in the best long-term interests of their millions of members. Holders of BSkyB shares are expected to have a vote on the takeover proposal in the next few months.
Simon Hughes, the Liberal Democrat deputy leader, has said he will ask Ofcom to exercise its right to assess whether the directors of News Corp were "fit and proper" to take full control of BSkyB. The methods used must be in proportion to the seriousness of story and its public interest, using the minimum possible intrusion. The MoD already has an infrastructure for pastoral care of relatives of dead soldiers, and will use this to provide support for any family that might have been affected. Can this be the same Mellor who, as the ambitious mid-ranking home office minister he was in 1990, steered through its commons committee stage, the Broadcasting Bill which exempted Rupert's Luxembourg-based satellite from constraints placed on UK rivals? It can be and it was.
Mobile phone company O2 has also pulled its advertising from the News of the World. A spokeswoman said:
As a result, the News of the World and News International wrongly maintained that these issues were confined to one reporter. We now have voluntarily given evidence to the police that I believe will prove that this was untrue and those who acted wrongly will have to face the consequences. Murdoch said in a statement: "Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad and this was not fully understood or adequately pursued." Here's the full story on Sainsbury's decision to pull advertising from the News of the World, which Jason Deans calls "potentially [the] most commercially damaging" news News International will have been given today. What I'm interested in is not closing down newspapers, I'm interested in those who were responsible being brought to justice and those who have responsibility for the running of that newspaper taking their responsibility and I don't think those two things have happened today."Viewed from the US, the British media can look like a tiny, vicious snakepit, to which Myler is returning with no immediate plans. He is leaving the Daily News of his own volition; his children and grandchildren are in the UK, and he and his wife miss them terribly. Colin Myler will edit final edition and all the News of the World revenue will go to good causes, James Murdoch says in his statement. How does he feel about the fact that his career obituary will probably be about Leveson? “I hope it isn’t. I think the first line of the obituary might be the last ever editor of the News of the World.” The News of the World is in the business of holding others to account. But it failed when it came to itself.
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