News Corp. founder Rupert Murdoch
(Paul Hackett/Reuters)
The Guardian:
Sean Hoare, the former News of the World showbiz reporter who was the first named journalist to allege Andy Coulson was aware of phone hacking by his staff, has been found dead, the Guardian has learned.
According to the Guardian, police are not treating Hoare's death as suspicious:
"The death is currently being treated as unexplained, but not thought to be suspicious. Police investigations into this incident are ongoing."
Whatever happened, this sure adds a new twist to this lede from the New York Times:
“Bury your mistakes,” Rupert Murdoch is fond of saying.
Even if Hoare's death is completely unrelated to the News Corp. scandal, it seems likely that a lot of valuable information is going to be buried along with him.