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Rebekah Brooks to return as News Corp chief - report Rebekah Brooks to return as News Corp UK chief - report
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News Corp says it is in talks with Rebekah Brooks after reports she will return as chief of its UK division. News Corp has said it is in talks with Rebekah Brooks after reports she will return as chief of its UK division.
Former News of the World editor Mrs Brooks quit as chief executive four years ago amid the hacking scandal. She was later cleared at trial. The former News of the World editor quit as UK chief executive four years ago amid the phone-hacking scandal. She was later cleared following a trial.
Her re-appointment could be confirmed next month, the Financial Times said.Her re-appointment could be confirmed next month, the Financial Times said.
Meanwhile, the Crown Prosecution Service said it was considering a file for possible corporate prosecution over phone-hacking at the News of the World. Campaign group Hacked Off said it was a sign of an "unreformed, unrepentant press", but a former Times executive editor said hacking was in the past.
The file relates to evidence gathered as part of Operation Weeting, which investigated illegal voicemail interceptions at the tabloid, which was closed in 2011. Mrs Brooks edited both the Sun and the NoW in a long career at Rupert Murdoch's company.
The CPS said: "We have received a full file of evidence for consideration of corporate liability charges relating to the Operation Weeting phone-hacking investigation." She resigned as UK chief executive in July 2011 in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal at the NoW, which eventually closed the paper.
On the Financial Times report, a News Corp spokeswoman said: "When we have any announcements to make we will let you know." Royals, celebrities and victims of crime were among those whose phones were hacked by journalists at the Sunday newspaper.
Mrs Brooks said after being acquitted of all charges following a 138-day trial that she felt "vindicated". Mrs Brooks had denied any involvement and was cleared of charges relating to phone hacking last year. Andy Coulson, another former NoW editor, was jailed after being convicted of conspiracy to hack phones.
Andy Coulson, another former News of the World editor, was jailed after being convicted of conspiracy to intercept voicemails on mobile phones. 'PR challenge'
Dr Evan Harris, joint executive director of Hacked Off, said Mrs Brooks's re-appointment would show News Corp was a "dynastic, mafia-type corporation", with no regard for the feelings of the victims of phone hacking.
"There's a gall to just carry on appointing someone who - yes she's entitled to her verdict of not guilty - but she achieved that with a defence of incompetence; she didn't know what was happening, and yet she's coming back. It's astonishing."
But Roger Alton, executive editor of the Times until June, said Mrs Brooks had been an effective chief executive who was held in high esteem by the company.
"The phone-hacking scandal is in the past. The verdicts have been delivered, the punishments have happened. She is an extremely effective, talented person, most likeable, extremely good with people," he said.
The move would be a "PR challenge" for Mr Murdoch, but "he values loyalty - she is very loyal, and he's been very loyal to her", he added.
The FT's media correspondent Henry Mance said a return could be perceived as a "slight triumph" for Mrs Brooks, but some former colleagues might not welcome it.
"One senior journalist said she was nothing short of a nightmare, as an editor, that she would send 25 angry emails every morning saying the coverage isn't good enough," he said.
Before the phone-hacking scandal, Mrs Brooks gave Rupert Murdoch a "bridge to the British political scene", he said.
"It may well be that that is what he expects to happen again," he said.
A News Corp spokeswoman said of the FT report: "When we have any announcements to make we will let you know."
'File of evidence'
The FT also reported that David Dinsmore, the current Sun editor, is to take a senior operational role at News UK and will work alongside Mrs Brooks.
The leading candidate to replace him is Tony Gallagher, deputy editor of the Daily Mail and a former editor of the Daily Telegraph, the FT said.
Meanwhile, UK prosecutors said they were considering a file for possible corporate prosecution over phone hacking at the News of the World.
The file relates to evidence gathered as part of Operation Weeting, which investigated illegal voicemail interceptions at the Sunday tabloid, which was closed in 2011.
The Crown Prosecution Service said: "We have received a full file of evidence for consideration of corporate liability charges relating to the Operation Weeting phone-hacking investigation."