According to the news, following the shutdown of tabloid News of the World - one of World?s famous newspapers face scandals, Rebekah Brooks resigned over chief executive of News International on Friday morning, July 15 after 11 days of bursting out political pressure over the phone-hacking scandal with the acceptance by both Rupert Murdoch and James Murdoch.
The 43-year-old Rebekah Brooks announced her staff at a meeting at International?s Wapping headquarters just early Friday morning that she is leaving her role as News Interntional CEO. Earlier, politicians, shareholders and public demanded for her resignation. "As chief executive of the company, I feel a deep sense of responsibility for the people we have hurt and I want to reiterate how sorry I am for what we now know to have taken place." Brooks said in a statement.
Rebekah Brooks has surrendered to pressure and resigned as the chief executive of News International because of the News of the World phone hacking scandals
She had offered her resignation before, but it had been refused by Rupert and James Murdoch
The 43-year-old woman was chief executive of News International, previously served as a British journalist, former newspaper editor of the News of the World, and the first female editor of The Sun
She teamed up with the News of the World in 1989 as a secretary before working as the first female editor of The Sun magazine and eventually becoming the paper's deputy editor
Moreover, Brooks was the centre of public attention from the day when the information was released that those were the victims of phone-hackers included the murdered teenager Milly Dowler, families of July 7 London bombing victims and kin of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, Rupert Murdoch, the founder of?News International?agreed with her and refused to ask her to take responsibility for the illegal practices and resign. James Murdoch, son of Rupert Murdoch, announced that News International will run advertisements in major British newspapers this weekend "to apologize to the nation for what has happened". Rebekah Brooks has surrendered to pressure by a?resignation?letter because of the News of the World phone hacking scandals.
Prime Minister David Cameron has got well on with Brooks. They have homes near each other in Oxfordshire and have gone horse riding together
Rebekah Brooks also had a close relationship with Tony and Cherie Blair
Prime Minister Gordon Brown with Elisabeth Murdoch, Baroness Amos and Rebekah Brooks in March 2008
Piers Morgan, Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson??
Rebekah Brooks engaged to actor Ross Kemp in 1996, and married in June 2002 in Las Vegas. After that, on November 3, 2005, she was arrested because of an alleged assault on her husband and later released without charge
She then decided to have a wedding with the author and race horse trainer Charlie Brooks in 2009
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Rebekah Brooks resigns over CEO of News International because of phone hacking scandal
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