Former News International chief executive and News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks has been offered a new job – on her local community newspaper.
Ms Brooks, who was questioned by police for 12 hours yesterday over possible involvement in phone-hacking and police corruption, has been invited to volunteer to join the team of the Chipping Norton News.
The former newspaper boss, who quit her post with Rupert Murdoch-owned company last Friday, lives near the Oxfordshire town, whose local MP is Prime Minister David Cameron.
The offer to join the News, a paid-for monthly publication run by around 20 local volunteers, was made by editorial team member Keith Ruddle in a letter in today’s Guardian.
Said Keith: “If Rebekah joins the News, she will see it is about real communication of news and views for the community and by the community.
“No hacking, no blagging – only honest amateur sleuthing, as polite and as balanced as possible – we on the editorial team don’t want bricks through our windows.”
The News describes itself on its website as “a non-profit-making newspaper run by a volunteer team aiming to encourage a sense of community by publishing regular news and acting as a forum for discussion.”
“We aim to be impartial, interesting and accessible to all reflecting a broad range of local opinion and views. New team members always welcome!”
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Sounds like Rebekah would be an ideal fit for an amateur community paper.
As a ‘secretary turned magazine feature writer’, with no proper journalistic training behind her, she would no doubt feel at home among a bunch of busybodies on an ego trip.
Go for it, Rebekah! It means you never need to work for something as tiresome and demanding as an NCTJ diploma – or a 100wpm certificate in shorthand.
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Methinks she might be sewing mailbags somewhere else for a living.
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a simple case of over-promotion perhaps? it happens in the hacking trade!!!
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Personally, I wouldn’t even allow her into the building to clean the toilets. What she has managed to achieve in her short, but far too long, career, is staggering.
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