News Corp mulls senior US post for former editor Rebekah Brooks

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Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is considering a return to the payroll for Rebekah Brooks, the former editor of the Sun and the News of the World, with a senior job in New York.

Cleared of phone hacking charges earlier this year, Brooks has spent much of this week in the US and was in the Sixth Avenue offices of the media group in Manhattan on Thursday.

Murdoch, who has made clear his continued admiration for the former chief executive of his UK newspaper division, is understood to be personally behind her potential new appointment.

The timing of Brooks’s return would provoke controversy given the forthcoming criminal trials of former Sun journalists. They are known to be furious at the difference in their treatment compared to that of senior executives such as Brooks.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/oct/23/rebekah-brooks-news-corp-rupert-murdoch-new-york-job

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Of course - protected her was always his top priority - he said so, publicly

It was all so different six days ago. In one of the defining moments of the 12-day crisis engulfing Brooks, Murdoch signalled his full support. He had flown into London to take charge of the crisis and in a public display of unity emerged from dinner in Mayfair to a phalanx of awaiting press. Asked what his top priority was, he gestured towards Brooks and, smiling, he said "this one".

"Crass wasn't the word for it. They had just made 200 people redundant and here they were dining in Mayfair as if nothing had happened," said one journalist who lost his job at the News of the World.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/jul/15/rebekah-brooks-news-international

[hobbit709]

2. It's the payoff.