Phone-Hacking Allegations Rattle News Corp. Tabloid

July 6, 2011 at 12:00 am PT

News Corp.’s tabloid reporting scandal swelled anew Tuesday, as allegations about the possible hacking of a dead teenager’s phone unleashed public outrage and placed the company’s top U.K. newspaper executive in the hot seat.

News Corp. has been under pressure for several years amid investigations into the use of a private detective by its News of the World tabloid to break into the mobile-phone voice mail of celebrities and political leaders.

Public rebuke of the company reached a new level this week with the allegation that, in 2002, the paper used the same tactic to access the voice mail of an abducted 13-year-old girl who, it turned out, had been murdered.

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Tagged with: Cassell Bryan-Low, hacking, News Corp., Paul Sonne, The Wall Street Journal

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