News of the World Tabloid Journalist Found Dead
Breaking News Monday, July 18th, 2011
News of the World
Sean Hoare, a former News of the World tabloid journalist was found dead in his home. Hoare was involved as a whistleblower in a phone-hacking scandal with News Corporation.
Mike Hoyt, executive editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, speaks about the News Corporation’s phone-hacking incident and the how newspapers influence society. He speaks to Deirdre Bolton of Bloomberg Television’s “InsideTrack.”
A former reporter at News Corporation (NWSA)’s now-dead News of the World tabloid, he was the first to allege its editor encouraged phone hacking by the staff. He was found dead, as reported by the Guardian newspaper, without saying where they got the information.
Sean Hoare’s body was found this morning at his home in Watford, England, when police were called to his house, the Guardian mentions. The death is not considered to be suspicious, the newspaper added, citing a police report which did not name Hoare.
Hoare worked as an entertainment reporter at the News of the World with Coulson, who resigned as David Cameron who was the U.K. Prime Minister’s press secretary earlier this year due to the scandal.
Hoare first suspected that Coulson encouraged reporters to hack into mobile phones during an interview last year with the New York Times. He had also worked with Coulson at News Corporation’s Sun tabloid before he was dismissed because of drug and alcohol problems, the Guardian reported.
Officials for police in Hertfordshire could not be reached for their comments and the Metropolitan Police Service in London said it was not aware of the case.
David Sonn, an attorney for Hoare, said he didn’t know about it, and if the report is true, it is “a terrible tragedy.”
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Posted by David Reel
on Jul 18 2011. Filed under Breaking News.
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