Amid widespread backlash to revelations of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_International_phone_hacking_scandal" id="mwAaU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="News International phone hacking scandal">phone hacking</a>, British weekly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabloid_(newspaper_format)" id="mwAaY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tabloid (newspaper format)">tabloid</a> <i id="mwAac"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_of_the_World" id="mwAag" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="News of the World">News of the World</a></i> publishes its final issue and shuts down after nearly 168 years in print.<sup about="#mwt94" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-18"}}' id="cite_ref-18" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./July_10#cite_note-18" id="mwAak" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 18;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAao">[18]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-18"><cite about="#mwt91" class="citation news cs1" id="CITEREFRichard_Allen_Greene2011">Richard Allen Greene (10 July 2011). <a class="external text" href="http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/07/10/uk.phonehacking/" id="mwB_I" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Murdoch flies in as scandal closes News of the World"</a>. CNN.</cite><span about="#mwt91" class="Z3988" id="mwB_M" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.atitle=Murdoch+flies+in+as+scandal+closes+News+of+the+World&amp;rft.date=2011-07-10&amp;rft.au=Richard+Allen+Greene&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fedition.cnn.com%2F2011%2FWORLD%2Feurope%2F07%2F10%2Fuk.phonehacking%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJuly+10"></span></span>