Reporters shocked by announcement

THE announcement that the News of the World will close after this weekend was greeted with shock and amazement by journalists at News International.

A senior News of the World journalist told Sky News that many reporters are in tears and that Colin Myler, the News of the World’s Editor, is “furious”. There is mass anger in news room directed at Rebekah Brooks and she was verbally abused.

Brooks was reported to have told staff at a tearful meeting that “The Guardian newspaper were out to get us, and they got us”.