News Corp’s British Tabloid Papers Clean Up Their Act

New York Times: Since the 2011 phone-hacking scandal involving the Murdoch-owned News of the World exposed the extent of some tabloids’ reliance on so-called dark arts — illegally listening to voice mail messages, bribing police officers and hiring private investigators for illegal information-gathering and surveillance — the papers have had to clean up their approach. Now, sensational exposés are few and far between. “The days of the Wild West,” with articles about randy footballers or straying MPs with their trousers down, are over.