A journalistic era ended in London yesterday with the final issue of the best-selling Sunday tabloid The News of the World.
The closing of the 168-year-old newspaper, which was the world’s largest weekly with 7.5 million readers, came in response to allegations the paper’s journalists paid police for information and hacked into the voicemails of a young murder victim and the grieving families of dead soldiers.
“Quite simply, we lost our way,” the paper said in a full-page editorial yesterday, apologizing to readers.
The News of the World, like The Post, is owned by News Corp.
Having chronicled celebrities, sex scandals and murders since the Victorian era, News of the World had also been a champion of populist causes.