Rebekah Brooks is the former editor of News of the World and former chief executive of News International. She resigned from her job on Friday, July 15, 2011 in the wake of the phone hacking scandal in the United Kingdom. Brooks was the editor at the time of some of the most serious allegations were made against the newspaper.
See the photos of Rebekah Brooks leading up to her resignation in this slideshow.
Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of News International, sits on Centre Court for the semi-final match between Novak Djokovic of Serbia and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London July 1, 2011. REUTERSThe 10 questions the Murdoch's and Rebekah Brooks need to be askedREUTERSRebekah Brooks, chief executive of News International, is seen watching play on Centre Court at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London in this July 1, 2011 file photograph. British lawmakers will hold an emergency debate over a phone-hacking scandal at a top-selling newspaper that has prompted calls for the resignation of a well-connected Rupert Murdoch executive and provoked a public outcry that could damage the paper's sales, July 6, 2011. In 2003, Rebekah Brooks, then editor of The Sun, told a parliamentary committee that her paper paid police for information. News International later said this was not company practice.REUTERSChief Executive of News International, Rebekah Brooks, listens to speeches during the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, northern England in this October 6, 2009, file photo. News International Chairman James Murdoch said on Thursday he regretted the phone-hacking scandal that has led to the closure of the News of the World tabloid and defended his chief executive Brooks, a former editor of the paper. REUTERSNews Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch leaves his flat with Rebekah Brooks, Chief Executive of News International, in central London July 10, 2011. Britain's biggest selling weekly newspaper hit the streets for the last time on Sunday, victim of a phone hacking scandal that has sent tremors through the British political establishment and may cost media baron Rupert Murdoch a lucrative broadcasting deal. REUTERSNotW Phone Hacking Scandal: Where to Watch This Afternoon's MP's Questions REUTERSBritain's opposition Conservative Party's Leader of the House of Lords, Thomas Strathclyde (R), talks with Chief Executive of News International, Rebekah Wade, during the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, northern England, October 6, 2009. Britain's opposition Conservatives pledged on Tuesday to save 7 billion pounds ($11 billion) a year by cutting bureaucracy, freezing public sector pay and trimming benefits to close a gaping budget deficit. REUTERSRebekah BrooksReutersRebekah Brooks, Chief Executive of News International, and News International Chairman James Murdoch, leave the Stafford Hotel in central London July 10, 2011. Media baron Rupert Murdoch flew into London on Sunday to tackle a phone-hacking scandal that has sent tremors through the British political establishment and may cost him a multi-billion dollar broadcasting deal. REUTERS
