One of the few sources who went on the record in the Times article, former News of the World journalist Sean Hoare, said Coulson, then his boss at the tabloid, "actively encouraged me" to hack into the voice mails of public figures to get stories for the News of the World.
The Times, which has been regarded as the U.K.'s newspaper of record for most of its 221-year history, is published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of News International, itself wholly-owned by billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. (nyse: NWS - news - people ).
The Times, which has been regarded as the U.K.'s newspaper of record for most of its 221-year history, is published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of News International, itself wholly-owned by billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.. It will roll off the presses of the New York Post, another Murdoch-owned gazette.