{"id":73940,"date":"2024-06-16T01:38:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T01:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/16\/washington-post-publisher-and-incoming-editor-are-said-to-have-used-stolen-records-in-britain\/"},"modified":"2024-06-16T01:38:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T01:38:14","slug":"washington-post-publisher-and-incoming-editor-are-said-to-have-used-stolen-records-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/16\/washington-post-publisher-and-incoming-editor-are-said-to-have-used-stolen-records-in-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Publisher and Incoming Editor Are Said to Have Used Stolen Records in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The publisher and incoming editor of The Washington Post used fraudulently obtained phone and company records in newspaper articles as journalists in London, according to a former colleague, the published account of a private investigator and an analysis of newspaper archives.<\/p>\n

Will Lewis, The Post\u2019s publisher, assigned one of the articles in 2004 as business editor of The Sunday Times. Another was written by Robert Winnett, whom Mr. Lewis recently announced<\/a> as The Post\u2019s next executive editor.<\/p>\n

The use of deception, hacking and fraud is at the heart of a long-running British newspaper scandal, one that toppled a major tabloid in 2010 and led to years of lawsuits by celebrities who said that reporters improperly obtained their personal documents and voice mail messages.<\/p>\n

Mr. Lewis has maintained that his only involvement in the controversy was helping to root out problematic behavior after the fact, while working for Rupert Murdoch\u2019s News Corporation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n