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Rebekah Brooks, who edited News of the World during some of the most egregious phone hacking episodes, is stepping down as head of News Corp. after a week of escalating calls for her departure. Replacing her is Tom Mockridge, CEO of Sky Italia since 2003.
2000: Rebekah Briooks becomes editor of News of the World. Just 32 years old, she is the youngest ever national newspaper editor. (Was known as Rebekah Wade until her marriage in 2009). $40 30 25 20 15 10

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News Corp revenue

year to June 30, 2010
Operating prot/loss

7.0B
Total

$1.3B Filmed entertainment

$7.6B
1.5B

$2.3B Cable network programming

$32.778B
$3.32B

$575M Other

$151M Integrated Marketing Services

$88M Book Publishing

1.2B 1.3B 3.8B

$88M Direct broadcasting Satellite TV

6.1B
$220M

4.2B

$530M Newspaper, information services

$22.22 $18.23 $14.59 $18.29 $16.51

Television

$19.73

News Corp. share price

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

$16.42 $9.47

$16.44

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2011

January 2003: Brooks moves to become editor of the Sun. March 2003: Appears before the Commons Committee on Culture, Media and Sport; says that News of the World had previously made payments to police o cers.

2005: A story appears in News of the World detailing condential information sourced from voicemails about knee injuries su ered by Prince William, sparking a police inquiry.

August 2006: News of the World reporter Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire arrested for hacking into voicemails of royal o cials. They are later convicted and spend time in jail.

January 2007: News of the World editor Andy Coulson resigns after the convictions. Becomes PM David Cameron's communications director.

We are sorry for the serious wrongdoing that occurred. We are deeply sorry for the hurt su ered by the individuals a ected. We regret not acting faster to sort things out. I realize that simply apologizing is not enough.
text to run in newspaper advertisments over the weekend, signed by Rupert Murdoch, right.
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June 2009: Brooks February 2010: The Commitbecomes CEO of tee on Culture, Media and News International. Sports says it is inconceivable that managers at the July 2009: The paper did not know about the Guardian alleges practice. that News of the World reporters, January 2011: The Metropoliwith the knowltan Police open a new investiedge of senior gation into allegations of sta , illegally phone hacking. Coulson accessed resigns as Cameron's commumessages from nications chief. the mobile phones April: News of the World chief of celebrities and reporter Neville Thurlbeck and politicians while former senior editor Ian Coulson was Edmondson are arrested on editor from 2003 suspicion of conspiring to to 2007. intercept mobile phone Brooks responds: messages. They are released The Guardian on bail. News of the World coverage, we admits it had role in phone believe, has hacking. substanMay: The paper agrees to pay tially and actress Sienna Miller likely $165,000 and $32,000 to delibersoccer commentator Andy ately Gray in separate hacking misled cases. the British July 4: Claims emerge that the public. mobile phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler was hacked by the News of the World after she went missing in 2002. Brooks says she is appalled and shocked.

July 6: Allegations emerge that families of people who died in the 2005 London bombings and of fallen soldiers may also have been victims. July 7: James Murdoch announces that the News of the World will close after one nal edition. July 8: Brooks says she will not resign and says that she had "visibility" of worse criminal revelations to come. Coulson is arrested on suspicion of phone hacking and corruption; former royal editor, Goodman is arrested over allegations of corruption. July 9: Brooks writes to the home a airs select committee I want to be absolutely clear that as editor of News of the World I had no knowledge whatsoever of phone hacking in the case of Milly Dowler and her family, or in any other cases during my tenure. July 10: The nal edition of the News of the World signs o with the front-page headline: Thank you and goodbye, and stating Quite simply we lost our way. News Corporation, the parent company of News International, withdraws its BSkyB takeover bid. July 14: Brooks agrees to answer questions next week from a U.K. parliamentary committee investigating the phone hacking and police bribery scandal. July 15: Brooks resigns.

SUSAN BATSFORD, GRAPHICS EDITOR, TWITTER @SBATS1; INFOGRAPHIC BY TARA MARTIN/QMI AGENCY