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Article posted: 11/22/2012 4:17 PM

Judgment day: UK media faces moment of truth

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Rebekah Brooks, former chief of News Corp.'s British operations, leaves the Old Bailey court in London. Two former confidants of Britain's prime minister, former tabloid editors Andy Coulson and Brooks, were charged Nov. 20 with conspiring to pay public officials in exchange for stories and information.

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It's judgment day for Britain's press. After nearly 18 months of damaging revelations about widespread media misconduct, the senior judge tapped to investigate the ethics and practices of some of the English-speaking world's most powerful newspapers will deliver his verdict next Thursday.