{"id":41774,"date":"2011-07-18T17:10:22","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T21:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=41774"},"modified":"2011-07-19T11:11:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T15:11:41","slug":"news-of-the-world-whistleblower-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/politics\/news-of-the-world-whistleblower-found-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"News of the World Whistleblower Found Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UK Guardian reports that\u00a0Sean Hoare, a former reporter for News Corp’s Sun<\/em> and News of the World<\/em> was found dead in his home today. Hoare was the first reporter to expose the systemic use of phone hacking while under then-editor Andrew Coulson. The cause of death has not been announced.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was Hoare’s revelations to the New York Times that first brought the News of the World phone hacking scandal to light late last year. The story\u00a0remained low on the news media’s event horizon until the hacking into the cell phone voicemail\u00a0of murder victim Millie Dowler hit the front page. The revelation\u00a0resurrected\u00a0Hoare’s story, uncovering the\u00a0industrial-level hacking that took place on a massive scale against private citizens, noted celebrities, heads of government, and members of the Royal Family by News of the World.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The phone hacking scandal has continued to\u00a0grow more legs since last weekend. Beginning with Friday’s resignation of Wall Street Journal’s editor-in-chief and former News of the World editor Les Hinton,\u00a0the\u00a0scandal has\u00a0expanded to include Sunday’s arrest\u00a0of News International chief Rebekah Brooks and the same day\u00a0resignation of Scotland Yard’s Chief Paul Stephenson. Stephenson’s resignation was followed by\u00a0today’s resignation of Scotland Yard’s top\u00a0officer in charge of terrorism investigations, John Yates.<\/p>\n

For more on the Sean Hoare’s death, here is coverage by the UK Guardian,<\/a> and an op-ed by one of Hoare’s\u00a0colleagues<\/a>, Guardian columnist Nick Davies, who writes:<\/p>\n

In the saga of the phone-hacking scandal, he (Hoare)\u00a0distinguished himself by being the first former NoW journalist to come out on the record, telling the New York Times last year that his former friend and editor, Andy Coulson, had actively encouraged him to hack into voicemail.<\/p>\n

That took courage. But he had a particularly powerful motive for speaking. He knew how destructive the News of the World could be, not just for the targets of its expos\u00e9s, but also for the ordinary journalists who worked there, who got caught up in its remorseless drive for headlines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The UK Guardian reports that\u00a0Sean Hoare, a former reporter for News Corp’s Sun and News of the World was found dead in his home today. Hoare was the first reporter to expose the systemic use of phone hacking while under then-editor Andrew Coulson. The cause of death has not been announced.\u00a0 It was Hoare’s revelations … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[762],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}