Tuesday, 26 July 2011

British Journalist Sells Book on Hacking Scandal

The hacking scandal in Britain has caught the attention of the publishing industry.

Nick Davies, a journalist who has covered the story extensively for The Guardian, sold a book about the scandal at News International to Faber & Faber, an affiliate of Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the United States, and to Chatto & Windus, part of Random House in Britain.

The book, titled “Hack Attack,” is scheduled for release in fall 2012, according to his publisher, which called the book “an authoritative account and commentary” on the scandal.

In 2009, Mr. Davies’s reporting revealed that the phone hacking at The News of the World was much more widespread than the initial police investigation suggested.


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