But my disgust turned to outrage when the news editor told me they wouldn't be running the story.
There is of course an uncomfortable feedback loop from the latest disclosures of alleged hacking to the prime minister - in that the deputy editor of the News of the World in 2002 was Andy Coulson, who became editor of the News of the World in 2003, and who also served as Mr Cameron's communications director until he resigned in January.
Earlier this month the News of the World suspended its news editor, Ian Edmondson, over allegations of phone hacking in 2005-6, thought to involve the actress Sienna Miller.
Three days ago, Rebekah Brooks, the controversial former News of the World editor at the center of the phone hacking scandal, was still enjoying the support of News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch.
He "seldom" speaks to the News of the World editor, and perhaps once or twice a month to the Sun editor.
The committee also said former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks must "accept responsibility" for presiding over a culture at the News of the World that led to journalists impersonating members of Milly Dowler's family and hacking the teenager's phone.
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The former News of the World editor finished on Monday, having handed in his resignation 11 days ago.
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And I got a good lesson in hyperlocal journalism when I entered the Dunn County News as the editor nearly 20 years ago.
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Editors speaking include James Harding of The Times, Alan Rusbridger of the Guardian, Chris Blackhurst of the Independent, and the former News of the World editor Colin Myler.
The former News of the World editor is accused, along with ex-NoW royal correspondent Clive Goodman, 55, from Surrey, of requesting and authorising payments to public officials in exchange for information, including a royal phone directory known as the Green Book.
The court set the trial date for Sept. 9, 2013, during a hearing Wednesday attended by former News of the World editor Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News Corp.
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It therefore suggested that News International's official position at the time, to the effect that hacking was confined to the activities of one reporter, Clive Goodman - the former News of the World royal editor, jailed for hacking in 2007 - may not have been true.
On July 14th, the same fate befell Neil Wallis, who had been the deputy editor first of the Sun and later of the News of the World, where he rose to become executive editor.
Mr. Murdoch received the email chain in June 2008 from News of the World editor Colin Myler containing comments from the paper's lawyers about a lawsuit U.K. soccer union boss Gordon Taylor had brought against the tabloid for hacking.
Sean Lester started working as a journalist with the North Down Herald and later became news editor on the Freeman's Journal in Dublin.
The hearing was the first time Mr Coulson, who was News of the World editor from 2003 to 2007, has been questioned about people's mobile phone voicemail being hacked into.
Prosecutors this month announced charges against six people, including Rebekah Brooks, a former News of the World and Sun editor who later became chief executive of News International, the British newspaper publishing arm of Murdoch's News Corp.
Earlier in the day, Cameron defended his decision to appoint former News of the World editor Andy Coulson as director of communications for the Conservative Party and then in Downing Street, saying he was the best person for the job.
Mr Coulson was editor of the News of the World in 2007 when its royal editor, Clive Goodman, was jailed for conspiracy to access phone messages.
Mr Coulson resigned as editor of the News of the World in 2007 when its royal editor, Clive Goodman, was jailed for conspiracy to access phone messages.
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The News of the World's royal editor, Clive Goodman, was jailed for conspiracy to access phone messages in 2007, but the paper insists it was an isolated case.
"Germans have a really close and positive relationship with southern Ireland, and this rides on the coat-tails of that, " said the acting editor of the English online news site, The Local.
The News of the World's royal editor, Clive Goodman, was jailed for conspiracy to access phone messages in 2007, along with private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, but the paper insists it was an isolated case.
Mr. Myler served as editor of the New York Post before returning to the U.K. to run the News of the World in 2007, when former editor Andy Coulson stepped down as a result of the phone hacking scandal.
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He also appointed Gabriella Stern, the senior editor for global news coverage at Dow Jones Newswires, as its managing editor.
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The BBC then appointed veteran journalist Colin McIntyre, its former UN correspondent and chief publicity officer, as the first editor of a news and information service which was broadcast using the same method.
"We see this as an opportunity to show a larger group the quality of what we are doing and, in that sense, enlarge our presence, " said Al Hunt, the executive editor of Bloomberg News, which is sending 150 people to the conventions, three times its 2008 contingent.
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The Washington Post's news editor, Douglas Jehl, admitted that a conscious decision had been made to ignore the story.
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