News Corp. executive Rebekah Brooks resigns amid phone-hacking scandal

Source: MSNBC

LONDON — Rebekah Brooks resigned as chief executive of News Corp.'s British newspaper unit on Friday, yielding to political and investor pressure over a phone hacking scandal undermining Rupert Murdoch's media empire on both sides of the Atlantic.

The 43-year-old Brooks, a former editor of the scandal-hit News of the World newspaper and of the flagship tabloid the Sun, was a close confidante of Murdoch, and has been under intense pressure to step down from her role since the phone-hacking scandal began last week.

She served as the first female editor of the News of the World newspaper between 2000 and 2003, the time of the most explosive allegation to hit Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. empire, and she has been in charge of News International's four British newspapers since 2007.

Brooks has been the target of intense anger over the past week as she kept her job while hundreds of News of the World employees were let go when the newspaper shut its doors.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43765046/ns/world_news-europe/

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News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch, seen here with Rebekah Brooks in London on July 10, traveled to London last week to deal with the crisis engulfing his company.

He's got a date in Vegas coming up.

:spray:

Thanks for the morning chuckle!

:rofl:

Source: BBC News

link now added and yes - BBC changed their own headline too.

Rebekah Broooks, chief executive of News International, has resigned, the company has confirmed.

Her departure follows days of growing pressure for her to step down as the phone hacking crisis grew. News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch had been resisting the calls to remove her.

Ms Brooks was editor of the News of the World when murder victim Milly Dowler's phone was hacked.

She had agreed to attend Tuesday's hearing of the Commons media committee

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14166162

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Sky News link here thanks to Tx4obama http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Rebekah-Brooks-News-International-Chief-Executive-Resigns-Following-Phone-Hacking-Scandal/Article/201107316030910?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_16030910_Rebekah_Brooks:_News_International_Chief_Executive_Resigns_Following_Phone_Hacking_Scandal

Full statement on this link : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14166004

and now Beck is history :)

Guess we know who's pulling the strings there, eh?

Homeboy said she's gotta go and Murdoch dropped her like a bad habit.

along with Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes :)

There has yet to be any mention of her being charged with any offences at present

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2011/jul/15/phone-hacking-live-coverage

10.03am: Here's the statement Brooks emailed to staff:

As chief executive of the company, I feel a deep sense of responsibility for the people we have hurt and I want to reiterate how sorry I am for what we now know to have taken place.

I have believed that the right and responsible action has been to lead us through the heat of the crisis. However my desire to remain on the bridge has made me a focal point of the debate.

This is now detracting attention from all our honest endeavours to fix the problems of the past.

Therefore I have given Rupert and James Murdoch my resignation. While it has been a subject of discussion, this time my resignation has been accepted.

Rupert's wisdom, kindness and incisive advice has guided me throughout my career and James is an inspirational leader who has shown me great loyalty and friendship.

I would like to thank them both for their support.

9.58am: News International have just confirmed that Rebekah Brooks has resigned.

Wonder why a lawyer didn't read her resignation before it was made public.
Seems strange.

To her, Murdoch was wise and kind, despite all the "screwing" he was dishing out to the rest of the world.

According to the Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8639163/Phone-Hacking-Rupert-Murdochs-daugher-in-furious-attack-on-Rebekah-Brooks.html

It had been said that Brooks had been the go-between for Elizabeth, James and Rupert. So once one of them thought she'd screwed up, her time must have been limited.

"right and responsible action"???
"honest endeavours"???

That witch and her wise and inspiring buddies the Murdochs don't know the meaning of ANY of those words!

They are going to learn though, when all their victims sue their sorry asses into the poor house.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Rebekah-Brooks-News-International-Chief-Executive-Resigns-Following-Phone-Hacking-Scandal/Article/201107316030910?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_16030910_Rebekah_Brooks:_News_International_Chief_Executive_Resigns_Following_Phone_Hacking_Scandal

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/07/15/breaking-rebekah-brooks-r_n_899570.html?1310720408

It's currently the TOP front page headline at Huffington Post UK: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/

I'd already tried that when I saw the Beeb banner but blanked. You've must've found it a minute or so later. And the AP link you added too.

:hi:

Some jail time, or tell the truth? what do you think?

and see if she's charged with anything ? There seems to be a disparity between the way the law works between here in the UK and the US.

After all if she is jailed, it will only be for a very short while and in a luxury jail. Then she will be out and probably regain another remote job in Murdoch's business empire somewhere.

a gesture that would be highly rewarded. However wouldn't her getting a criminal record prevent her from ever entering the US?

If she is set for life - money-wise, she has the rest of the world to gallivant about - so why would she bother with United States?

around to take the fall, as real as this fall is, when they there are hordes of men that need to go down also. When and where is that happening and was she put in place just for this possibility?

10.23am: Here's News Corporation's statement on the appointment of Tom Mockridge as Rebekah Brooks's replacement:

News Corporation today announced the appointment of Tom Mockridge to the role of Chief Executive Officer of News International.

Mr Mockridge will assume responsibility for his new role with immediate effect following the resignation of Rebekah Brooks.

Mr Mockridge joins News International from Sky Italia where he has been Chief Executive Officer since launch in 2003. He was also Chief Executive European Television of News Corporation, overseeing News Corporation's television operations in Europe, outside of the UK.

Laura Cioli, Chief Operating Officer, and Domenico Labianca, Chief Finance Officer, will assume Mr Mockridge's responsibilities on an interim basis, reporting to James Murdoch, Deputy Chief Operating Officer and Chairman and CEO, International, News Corporation.

Prior to joining Sky Italia, Mr Mockridge was Chief Executive of the publicly-listed New Zealand company, Independent Newspapers, and Chairman of Sky New Zealand.

He previously held various roles at Star Group Limited and spent three years as Chief Executive Officer of Foxtel, News Corporation's Australian pay TV joint venture.

Mr Mockridge joined News Corporation in January 1991, working for Ken Cowley, Chairman and Chief Executive of the Australian newspaper company News Limited.

Before that, he was a spokesperson in the Australian government. He started his career as a newspaper journalist in New Zealand.

Mr Mockridge is also a non-executive director of BSkyB and a member of the Supervisory Board of Sky Deutschland.

James Murdoch, Deputy Chief Operating Officer and Chairman and CEO, International, News Corporation, said: 'Tom is an outstanding executive with unrivalled experience across our journalism and television businesses.

He has proven himself to be a very effective operator in his time at Sky Italia.

Under his leadership, Sky has grown to become one of the world's most successful pay TV businesses, reaching close to 5 million homes and launching channels like TG24 which has set a new standard for independent journalism in Italy.

I believe that Tom is the best person to move the company forward to a brighter future.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2011/jul/15/phone-hacking-live-coverage

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/07/15/uk.phonehacking.scandal/index.html?hpt=hp_t1


p.s. Goodnight ;)

civil suit.

Unless and until someone connects a smoking gun to Poppy Murdoch or Baby Murdoch, they will not go to jail. However, civil liability is a different matter, and I hope someone they haven't settled with yet sues them into oblivion--and also finds a way to hang personal liabilty on them, too, not only corporate liability.

he will be held responsible in the USA :)

was a UK registered company. If share owners are the issue then watch this space for associated issues like Chevron and the subsequent owners of Union Carbide to name but two.

I guess they meant his FoxNews station here in the USA.
Because they said that since Murdoch is a US citizen and he has a TV station here in the USA that he is going to be looked at closely to see if he has broken US law.

Something like that :)

is that whilst Fox et al might be staying quiet on the subject over your side the exact opposite is happening here with regard to both Sky News and the daily equivalent of the NOWT - The Sun. :shrug:

right now the AP, CNN, and Huffington Post are running with the story of Brooks resignation.

The only folks that haven't been even talking about the Murdoch 'scandal' all week has been FoxNews TV.

Regarding the scandal CNN and MSNBC and Current TV (Keith Olbermann) have been talking about it a lot.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304521304576446261304709284.html?mod=wsj_share_twitter

Heh, was that before or after your favourite executive had to resign, Rupe?

:rofl:

From Twitter - http://twitter.com/BreakingNews

BreakingNews
James Murdoch, chief exec of News Corp in Europe, says 'We will apologise to the nation (UK) for what has happened' http://bit.ly/r0DJKa

"News Corporation is to take out national press adverts this weekend to apologise for what it described as "the wrongdoings at the News of the World"."

now added by BBC to their original link : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14166162

comes from a single source - The Daily Mirror aka The Moron here in the UK. Whether or not they will be able to back up the claim is a matter of some conjecture.

See here :

The 9/11 allegation surfaced in the Daily Mirror which claimed on Monday that an unnamed former New York cop, now a private investigator, was contacted in 2001 by News of the World journalists who said they would pay him to retrieve the private phone records of dead victims. They were particularly interested in British-born victims.

The strength of the Mirror story is uncertain. It is attributed not to the private investigator himself but to a 'source', again unnamed.

The source was quoted by the Mirror as saying: "His presumption was that they wanted the information so they could hack into the relevant voicemails, just like it has been shown they have done in the UK. The PI said he had to turn the job down. He knew how insensitive such research would be, and how bad it would look."

Read more: http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/81721,news-comment,news-politics,rebekah-brooks-quits-as-fbi-launches-911-probe#ixzz1SAVU1P1a

Call me cynical, but I would not be surprised if this thing plays out completely differently in the US than in Britain. There is a challenge on now--UK has led the way. But I bet we will see incredible tactics of suppression in the US, no matter how bad the offenses here. They will try to contain it to Europe and use every means possible to prevent the same unraveling of information here.

Can anybody tell me why my thoughts might be off base. Do we believe that any kind of real investigation will happen in America? Does anybody reading this have confidence that something CAN be done to expose them? We all know they've done the same and more here, but we have a non-functional judicial system. I'm not up on exactly how it compares to Britain. But ours is nonfunctional.

Tell me there's any reason to hope that productive investigations could happen in America.:shrug:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Act


Murdoch is fucked if they go all the way with this, from this side of the water.

This is one of the angles the FBI is investigating, as one of Murdoch's companies was bribing politicians and officials; that will come back to bite him in the ass as both a U.S citizen and owner of the U.S. chartered parent company.

"I didn't know" won't cut it.

So we DO have some laws against bribery of foreign officials. I see from your link they were signed by Carter and then later amended in 1998. From the Wiki link (foreign corrupt practices):

:wow: Lockheedgate and Bananagate

"...in the mid-1970s, over 400 U.S. companies admitted making questionable or illegal payments in excess of $300 million to foreign government officials, politicians, and political parties.

The abuses ran the gamut from bribery of high foreign officials to secure some type of favorable action by a foreign government to so-called facilitating payments that were made to ensure that government functionaries discharged certain ministerial or clerical duties. One major example was the Lockheed bribery scandals, in which officials of aerospace company Lockheed paid foreign officials to favor their company's products.<2> Another was the Bananagate scandal in which Chiquita Brands had bribed the President of Honduras to lower taxes. Congress enacted the FCPA to bring a halt to the bribery of foreign officials and to restore public confidence in the integrity of the American business system.

The Act was signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on December 19, 1977, and amended in 1998 by the International Anti-Bribery Act of 1998 which was designed to implement the anti-bribery conventions of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.

OK so now I understand...we have the laws ---but do they have any teeth? :popcorn: THANKS

Considering they are the voice of the left in England, either you have no idea or you just misspoke,
Im willing tto give you the benefit of the doubt.

Its the nickname Private Eye gave them long ago. The satirical magazine Private Eye goes back to 1961 :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Eye

They've had names for most of our papers for years now. The Guardian is the Grauniad because of the record of awful spelling errors their proof readers never spotted and the Telegraph is the Torygraph which you'll also see used here on DU from time to time. :)

I said The Moron : not a moron. I guess you're English.

:hi:

btw - I've always regarded Mirror readers as being pretty thick anyway. That's nothing political : just a statement of fact. Maybe check today's home page : http://www.mirror.co.uk/ They don't come much more exciting than that. :sarcasm:

I guess you're NOT English.

Hope that people don't get taken in by such a cynical ploy as that
and realise that no, it wasn't "a few bad apples" but was more like
"a multi-generation pestilential blight across the entire mega-orchard".

"I'm sorry my idiot lackey ( who I have had absolutely no knowledge of ) got caught."

Followed by a flow of crocodile tears and business-as-usual.

I did search to see if a thread had been posted

:hi:

Hope the weather is behaving itself where you are.

:hi:

Good Morning DU!

Rupert's problems reminds me of this great old song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0HqbScHZH0

Karma is a b***h sometimes.

says the saudi prince.

been combined with a much later post ?

News International chief executive Rebe... <1 Reply> Rebekah Brooks has r... Jul-15-11 09:00 AM

Time stamp above is GMT

I was up with you this morning but thought maybe I was dreaming

Never mind.

:hi:

I imagine the shredder is getting used quite a bit.

Office is closed now and it was part of a communal building too. What they didn't have time to do, in some shape of form, was change the name of NOWT to NOWT Holdings whatever and then re-register NOWT under a different company number. It is /was a UK company. Doing would at least have protected the name. Now its in receivership would've prevented anyone else buying the name from the receiver. NOWT circulation was not to be sniffed at.

btw and just in passing : under our laws here the offence of deleting a text which has been hacked is against the SENDER of the text - not the recipient. The deletion is theft : intent to permanently deprive under our 1968 Theft Act.

Unbeknownst to the upright benign innocent people running the rags.

Glad I cut it and went gray...as in graywarrior.

I hope she gets what's coming to her and I hope it's evil.

And don't let Roger Ailes get away from this one. His hands are covered in shit.

...evil.