News International — which owns the 168-year-old tabloid — announced it would be axed, adding that the alleged practices were "inhuman" and had "no place in our Company".
Chairman James Murdoch revealed the news to shocked staff at the papers' offices in London this afternoon
Private investigators hired by journalists working at the paper were hacking into the phones of countless people, including celebrities, politicians, murder victims, fallen British soldiers and their families, and missing persons, just to get their messages and record conversations for story leads. In at least one case they deleted voicemail messages to make room for more, giving the family of a missing 13 year-old girl false hope that she was alive and retreiving her messages. Two journalists went to jail when the news came out in 2006, but it was apparently much more widespread than it was first thought. It was despicable, and many people were outraged that Rupert Murdoch, the head of parent organization News International, wasn’t firing the editor of NOTW right away. (Reports have her trying to resign twice and getting turned down.) It looks like Murdoch had other plans though as it was just announced that Sunday’s edition of the paper will be its last.
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