Newsweek.com features an extensive account by the editor in chief of The Guardian that provides some insight into how it persisted on the News of the World phone-hacking case.

Alan Rusbridger coherently identifies the series of events, some of his newsroom's setbacks and challenges, and the ultimate turning points that gave rise to the public awareness of the journalistic scandal.

Among other things he reveals how The New York Times helped his newsroom pursue the story and how those efforts encouraged others to report on it.

Meanwhile, The New York Times today chronicles the handling of the scandal and the efforts by parent company News Corp. to deal with it.
 
 
Howard Kurtz, the former Washington Post media critic recently installed at Newsweek and The Daily Beast, offers his views of the context of the News of the World hacking scandal that has collapsed the venerable tabloid and collided with the fortunes of the media empire of Rupert Murdoch.

Kurtz views the scandal as emblematic of an age in which some media push the envelope of ethical acceptability for the sake of public popularity. He doesn't entirely blame media.

"In the end, the public’s indifference to how salacious stories are procured creates this lucrative market," he writes.
 
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