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.
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.
