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Rebekah Mary Brooks (née Wade; born 27 May 1968) is an English journalist and former newspaper editor. She was chief executive officer of News International from 2009 to 2011, having previously served as the youngest editor of a British national newspaper at ''News of the World'' from 2000 to 2003, and the first female editor of ''The Sun'' from 2003 to 2009. Brooks married actor Ross Kemp in 2002. They divorced in 2009 and she married former racehorse trainer and author Charlie Brooks. Brooks was a prominent figure in the News International phone hacking scandal, having been the editor of the ''News of the World'' when illegal phone hacking was carried out by the newspaper. Following a criminal trial in 2014 she was cleared of all charges by a jury at the Old Bailey, which accepted her defence of incompetence: that she had no knowledge of the illegal acts carried out by the newspaper she edited. ==Early life== Brooks was born in Warrington, Lancashire (now in Cheshire), to a father variously described as a tugboat deckhand and gardener. She grew up in Daresbury, to the south of Warrington, and when she was 14 decided she wanted to be a journalist. She attended Appleton Hall High School – a state comprehensive school that had previously been a grammar school – in Appleton, Warrington. A childhood friend, Louise Weir, described her as "more emotionally intelligent than academic", charming and always able to get what she wanted out of people. In Brooks's entry in ''Who's Who'' she stated that she had studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, but did not claim to have a degree, and did not later answer questions about this; in a 2003 ''Spectator'' article, Stephen Glover suggested that, since she was working at the age of 20 for the ''News of the World'', "we can safely assume that she did not study at the Sorbonne in any meaningful way". In 2010, Brooks was awarded an honorary Fellowship from the University of the Arts, London, for her contribution to journalism. She attended the London College of Communication, now part of the university, as a student. The commentator Henry Porter claims little is known of Brooks personally.〔 Tim Minogue, who was one of her first co-editors before becoming a journalist at ''Private Eye'' magazine, recalled a "likeable, skinny, hollow-eyed girl who was very ambitious". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rebekah Brooks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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