By Nat Ives on AdAge, July 15 – Days after shutting down its 168-year-old News of the World and abandoning its $12 billion attempt to buy the rest of satellite giant British Sky Broadcasting, News Corp. has absorbed another consequence of its phone hacking scandal by accepting the resignation of Rebekah Brooks, CEO of its British newspapers division.
Ms. Brooks was editor at News of the World during much of the phone hacking that has enraged Britain, but has said she knew nothing about any of it. News Corp. chairman-CEO Rupert Murdoch had stood by her even as he walked away from the paper, its 200 employees and, most recently, the BSkyB deal.