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16 July 2013updated 22 Oct 2020 3:55pm

The Sunday Times and David Hunt: we still need big media

Exposing big wrongs is expensive.

By Dominic Ponsford

News Corp has gone to great lengths to draw a line under the News of the World phone-hacking scandal.

News International is no more, rebranded as News UK. There are hardly any top executives from 2011 still in place at News UK. The News of the World itself has gone. And most recently we have the decision to leave Wapping – the scene of riots in 1986 and nefarious journalistic practices more recently – and move The Sun, Times and Sunday Times into a brand-new glass-clad office in London Bridge.

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