Rebekah Brooks

Rebekah Brooks
Born
Rebekah Mary Wade[1][2]

(1968-05-27) 27 May 1968 (age 56)
Warrington, Lancashire, England[3][4]
Occupation(s)CEO, News UK
Journalist, newspaper editor,[4] media executive
Notable credit(s)The Post, The Sun, News of the World[4]
Spouses
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(m. 2002; div. 2009)​
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Children1

Rebekah Mary Brooks (née Wade; born 27 May 1968)[5] is a British media executive and former journalist and newspaper editor. She has been chief executive officer of News UK since 2015. She was previously CEO of News International from 2009 to 2011 and was the youngest editor of a British national newspaper at News of the World,[6] from 2000 to 2003, and the first female editor of The Sun,[7] from 2003 to 2009. Brooks married actor Ross Kemp in 2002. They divorced in 2009 and she married former racehorse trainer and author Charlie Brooks.

Brooks was a prominent figure in the News International phone hacking scandal, having been the editor of News of the World from 2000 to 2003 when one of the stories which involved illegal phone hacking was published by the newspaper. Following a criminal trial in 2014 she was found not guilty of conspiracy to hack voicemails, two counts of conspiracy to pay public officials and two counts of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice by a jury at the Old Bailey.[8]

In September 2015, Brooks was confirmed as CEO of News UK, the renamed News International, re-establishing a working relationship with Rupert Murdoch, founder and chairman of News Corp, and founder and executive chairman of American conservative cable news channel Fox News.

  1. ^ "Search 'person REBEKAH MARY BROOKS'". Comdevelopment. Retrieved 11 May 2012.
  2. ^ Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005.; at ancestry.com.
  3. ^ "Sir Paul Stephenson resigns hours after Rebecca Brooks is arrested". Liverpoolecho.co.uk. 18 July 2011. Retrieved 6 July 2013.
  4. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference autogenerated1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Profile: Rebekah Brooks". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
  6. ^ "The Media Guardian 100: 53. Rebekah Wade". The Guardian. London. 8 July 2002. Retrieved 12 October 2007.
  7. ^ Sandle, Paul (23 June 2009). "UPDATE 2-UK Sun editor Wade to be News International CEO". Reuters.
  8. ^ "Hacking trial: Coulson guilty, Brooks cleared of charges". BBC News. 24 June 2014.