It’s the Advertisers Wot Done It
'News of the World' to end its 168-year run without any ads at all
News of the World, Rupert Murdoch’s scandal-plagued British tabloid, will print its last issue this Sunday—and it will not be running any advertising.
In the statement in which he announced the decision to shutter the paper, James Murdoch, News Corp. deputy COO and News International chairman, said that News of the World "will run no commercial advertisements this weekend . . . any advertising space in this last edition will be donated to causes and charities that wish to expose their good works to our millions of readers.”
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