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    Final moments at News of the World revealed

    Yahoo! News can reveal these images and videos capturing the last moments in the News of the World newsroom as the last edition of the paper went to print.

    The paper’s shutdown was announced last Thursday after the Sunday tabloid paper was embroiled in the UK’s biggest ever phone-hacking scandal.

    Having come under fire following the hacking of high-profile targets such as Sienna Miller and the alleged phone-hacking of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, senior executive of News International James Murdoch announced that the paper was to stop its circulation.

    The first photo was taken as the current News of the World editor Colin Myler finished telling staff that the shutdown of the 168-year-old paper wasn't their fault.
    Photo: Brian Whelan, Yahoo!Photo: Brian Whelan, Yahoo!
    In this second still, News of the World staff scan a draft of the very last edition of Britain’s best-selling newspaper.
    Photo: Brian Whelan, Yahoo!Photo: Brian Whelan, Yahoo!

    In the above video taken by Brian Whelan, News of the World staff and staff from The Times, The Sun and Sunday Times gather in the foyer of the News International building to ‘bang out’ the editor.


    'Banging out' is when staff bang their desks or keyboard in an old-school Fleet Street tradition when fellow colleagues leave their job.

    In this final video, an empty office is seen two hours after staff left forever and the newsroom was being locked down.

     

    78 comments

    • A Yahoo! User  •  10 months ago
      I knocked one off over this. Best I ever had.
      • echo 10 months ago
        oh lorem,stop being so offensive,look at the wider picture,people have lost their jobs
      • General 10 months ago
        quality
      • A Yahoo! User 10 months ago
        i've knocked 24 out
    • Ronald  •  10 months ago
      Final moments of NOTW.....not interested. Final moments of Rupert Murdock.....looking foward to that. The start of removing a corrupt media.
      • Leo 10 months ago
        AGREED!!!
      • The Ripper 10 months ago
        Yes indeed!!!
      • chris 10 months ago
        The Sun and The Times next....., though I have to admit to buying the Times, I was fooled into thinking it was a proper paper as it had words in it that Sun and NOTW readers wouldnt understand and it didnt do the celebrity guff. I will buy the Guardian now as a thankyou for their public spirited 'outing' of Murdoch
    • Barry  •  10 months ago
      I'm looking forward to Murdoch drawing his last breath and the same for his corrupt empire. That's the only time we'll be relieved. Till then, 99.99999% of this country aren't content that , this old, sack of sh1t is still roaming the planet , screwing others to make himself richer. Shame the UK government can't eliminate him and his empire with one touch of a button.
    • David  •  10 months ago
      Similiar to when I left my last posistion, exept I was escorted out of the building by a security guard carrying a bin liner.

      NOTW was gutter press and I will be very happy when the currant bun ( SUN) goes belly up. Definate need of a serious rag for people who can read words of more than two syllables. If the media is the fourth Estate then it is infested with rot.
    • Jack Flashman  •  10 months ago
      Are we supposed to be sorry about this?

      If Brooks had done the decent thing then
      these people may have kept their jobs,
      but there are plenty of other people out
      there being made unemployed through
      no fault of their own. I'll reserve my
      sympathy for them.
      • LeonE 10 months ago
        You've structured that like a poem. I was very disappointed when I read it and realised that it didn't rhyme.
      • LeonE 10 months ago
        You've structured that like a poem. I was very disappointed when I read it and realised that it didn't rhyme.
    • olemog  •  10 months ago
      Having never read the paper not bothered...I lost me job a few times and you just go out and find another one....
    • mikeM  •  10 months ago
      OMG...... I,m going to have to buy toilet paper from now on
    • Jasmine B  •  10 months ago
      The paper, I will not call it a news paper has throughout my lifetime of over a half a century continued to use sleazy means, exagerations and total fabrications in order to sell issues.

      Their disgraceful campaign to name and shame alleged paedophiles in 2000 following the abduction and murder of Sarah Payne. The paper's decision led to angry mobs terrorising those they suspected of being child sex offenders, which included several cases of mistaken identity, including one instance where a paediatrician had her house vandalised because their readership are to stupid to know the difference between a paedophile and a paediatrician. The campaign was labelled "grossly irresponsible" journalism by the then Chief Constable of Gloucestershire, Tony Butler.

      In a September 2010 interview broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 news programme The World at One, former News of the World features editor Paul McMullan made an admission relating to police corruption. He told of having used material obtained by a colleague's bribery of a police officer as the basis of a series of articles published over several years on Jennifer Elliott, the daughter of the actor Denholm Elliott. He stated, 'The going rate for that kind of thing might have been two to five hundred pounds and that would have been authorised, and he [i.e. the police officer] would have been paid... and he would have been on the lookout for another story...' The articles described Ms Elliott's destitute situation and stated that she had worked as a prostitute. Jennifer Elliott killed herself in 2003. In Mr McMullan's opinion the News of the World - specifically, his own articles - contributed significantly to her suicide. In 2011, the paper knowingly used private investigators to gain stories from corrupt police officers.

      There are numerous cases where they have been sued for their lies but as only the rich can afford to do this the dozens if not hundreds or maybe thousands of ordinary peoples lives they have ruined will never be known.

      Good riddance to bad rubbish.
      • Lupin Pooter 10 months ago
        Moral outrage indeedd And yet throughout News Interational they seem less than properly concened with the persona safety of private individuals INCLUDING victims of sex abuse and paedophiles...

        Consider this example - I can name a man who regularly boasts of friendship (always name-dropping) with a high profile Sunday Times journalist, the ST of course being yet another News International title.

        The man in question is a dangerous nutcase who among other things BOASTS of having once entered a primary school with the intention of killing the headmaster, applauded the Anna Lindh murder, and boasts of his part in publishing a book that tries to undermine the Police's part in dealing with the Dunblane Tragedy... - A book funded by the pro-gun lobby!

        More recently he has sought to undermine the campaign by a Downs Syndrome woman to seek justice for the sexual abuse she suffered as a child. His tactics included abusing her supporters on Facebook, claiming (and apparently being able to) access medical records, driving records, bank account details etc...

        There is NO possibility of this crank being able to access these things without help; but from where?

        Well, his boasts of 'connections' within the media primarily seem to focus on one Daniel Foggo - Of the 'S.T.' Whether his claims are true or not is another matter; but sheer co-incidence that he is able to access the medical records of an ordinary woman from Northern Ireland? I suspect NOT

        What we've heard so far is just the very point of the tip of this iceberg as far as News Int. are concerned!
      • Lupin Pooter 10 months ago
        Moral outrage indeedd And yet throughout News Interational they seem less than properly concened with the persona safety of private individuals INCLUDING victims of sex abuse and paedophiles...

        Consider this example - I can name a man who regularly boasts of friendship (always name-dropping) with a high profile Sunday Times journalist, the ST of course being yet another News International title.

        The man in question is a dangerous nutcase who among other things BOASTS of having once entered a primary school with the intention of killing the headmaster, applauded the Anna Lindh murder, and boasts of his part in publishing a book that tries to undermine the Police's part in dealing with the Dunblane Tragedy... - A book funded by the pro-gun lobby!

        More recently he has sought to undermine the campaign by a Downs Syndrome woman to seek justice for the sexual abuse she suffered as a child. His tactics included abusing her supporters on Facebook, claiming (and apparently being able to) access medical records, driving records, bank account details etc...

        There is NO possibility of this crank being able to access these things without help; but from where?

        Well, his boasts of 'connections' within the media primarily seem to focus on one Daniel Foggo - Of the 'S.T.' Whether his claims are true or not is another matter; but sheer co-incidence that he is able to access the medical records of an ordinary woman from Northern Ireland? I suspect NOT

        What we've heard so far is just the very point of the tip of this iceberg as far as News Int. are concerned!
    • Simon  •  10 months ago
      Those people will all be back at work next week, they will just open the same paper, with the same staff, but just a different name, its the age old classic when a business goes under, just start trading in another name. No sympathy whatsoever, they deserve everything they get, the public need to have a word with themselves too, how many people have said the same but still went a bought the last edition?????, I know I most definately did NOT, it should have been boycotted and not sold a single last edition, maybe thats a bit ambitious but I bet there are a few million people who said they deserve it but still bought the paper!!!
    • A Yahoo! User  •  10 months ago
      Are we supposed to feel sorry for these people they are as bad as the rest of them
    • Politician Stole My Money  •  10 months ago
      Good riddance to this horrid pornograhic rubbish -should have been confined to the cesspool of history years ago
    • C  •  10 months ago
      Who cares. All Murdoch's publications should be axed and the staff sacked. With more disgraceful revelations emerging that man and the Rebecka woman should both be locked up.
      How many more innocent people are going to be embarrassed or hurt by their underhand antics.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  10 months ago
      Meh.

      They chose to work for a muckraking rag, I've @#$% sight more sympathy for, say, public sector workers losing their jobs, people who do some good in this world.
    • Ronald  •  10 months ago
      Who would want to bang Brooks anyway.
      • astonite40 10 months ago
        the murdoch clan ??????????
      • Jimbo 10 months ago
        Me, you want to see the state of the one i,m banging.
      • Bloke down the pub 10 months ago
        Only if she swallows!
    • Mary  •  10 months ago
      Why should we want to look at this - I sped through to get to the comment box. Why give them even more publicity. What they have done is crude, immoral and totally disgusting. I never bought the NOTW and now I know why the paper was not for me - it is the greedy public who want all the sleaze that encourage this sort of thing.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  10 months ago
      I wanna see the last moments of rebekha-ha brookes/wade and murdoch
    • Murray  •  10 months ago
      I worked in newspapers for 35 years, as a printer, I have never had any respect for journalists they think they are above the law. It's nice to see some of them getting their come-uppance.
      Journalists were NEVER banged out in my day only genuine printers.
    • Susan Morris  •  10 months ago
      who cares they dont care what they have done why should we care about them
    • Geoff  •  10 months ago
      research your own industry,apprentices were banged out when they became journeymen. not
      typical N.U J. useless scabbing scum. out of work like the printers who lost their jobs and
      some their lives, when this bunch of scum and their predesessors had their heads up
      Murdochs arse. Remember Wapping.
    • Nyan Nyan Nyan  •  10 months ago
      As a recent graduate in journalism I can't feel for these people at all. (Well..maybe some of them),but this newspaper was a disgrace. They gave all journalists a bad name and a stereotypical view of them in a negative manner. I'm glad this paper got what it deserved. Jeez,I only watched the news yesterday and saw the headline of the NOTW last paper saying ''the greatest newspaper in the world''. Pu-lease,don't flatter yourselves you arrogant bunch of 'newswriters'. Pathetic. I only feel for some of the people who did their jobs honestly in there. Everything in news work should be Public Interest. Really though?I don't think they kept to that term. I'm not interested in seeing if a celebrity got a new hairdo because they were drunk the previous night and got it burnt by accident or some b.@#$% like that. Good riddance.
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