NY Daily News editor Colin Myler under scrutiny over NoW allegations

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/apr/23/colin-myler-news-of-the-world-scrutiny

By Ed Pilkington and Dominic Rushe in New York
guardian.co.uk
23 April 2012

Colin Myler's editorship of the New York Daily News, one of the most 
prominent newspapers in America, has come under renewed scrutiny 
following allegations that he attempted to intimidate members of the UK 
parliament investigating phone hacking at the News of the World at the 
time he led the now-defunct tabloid.

Media monitoring groups and experts in journalistic ethics in America 
have described the allegations raised against Myler as "horrifying" and 
"abhorrent". New York magazine has also published a 5,000-word profile 
of Myler in its current issue, putting a spotlight on to Myler within 
the US media that he has assiduously tried to avoid – until now with 
relative success.

Myler was the final editor of the News of the World from 2007 until it 
closed last July. In January he was appointed editor-in-chief of the New 
York Daily News, a job that puts him on the high table of American 
journalists.

Media monitors in the US have reacted to claims that Myler attempted to 
bully British MPs investigating the News of the World as anathema to 
journalistic standards in the US. Eric Boehlert, senior fellow of the 
progressive watchdog Media Matters, said that the allegation "would put 
any American newspaper editor in a very uncomfortable position. Anything 
like it would be seen as completely horrifying and beyond the realm of 
responsible journalism".

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