http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/news_of_the_world/index.html?8qa

In July 2011,News of the Word, an 168-year-old UK paper owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, was accused of engaging in phone hacking and police bribery. The investigations of UK police conducted that many celebrities, politicians and even members of the British Royal Family was hacked from 2005 to 2007.  Moreover, the New of the World not only targeted the upper class; murder victim as well as relatives of fallen soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan was targeted as well. To ease the furor, the new paper were quickly closed by News Corporation. However, the phone hacking scandal already harmed the reputation of News Corporation.