Rebekah Brooks, the former boss of News Corp.'s British newspaper arm, was found not guilty on Tuesday by a London court of being part of an illegal conspiracy at a Rupert Murdoch tabloid to hack into phones and make illegal payments. Though Brooks was acquitted by the jury of all charges, Andy Coulson, Prime Minister's David Cameron's former media chief and ex-editor of one of Murdoch's British titles, was found guilty of being part of the phone-hacking conspiracy. Both were former editors of Murdoch's News of the World, the 168-year-old tabloid the media mogul closed in July 2011 amid a public outcry over revelations that journalists had hacked into the voicemails on the mobile phone of a murdered schoolgirl. The 46-year-old Brooks was cleared of being part of a conspiracy to hack into phones to find exclusive stories, of authorising illegal payments to public officials and of trying to hinder the police investigation.
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