Guardian's Amelia Hill Won't Be Prosecuted Over Phone Hacking Reporting

UK prosecutors investigating a phone-hacking scandal at a Rupert Murdoch tabloid have decided not to charge a journalist from the Guardian newspaper for illegally obtaining information from the police to break the story. The hacking scandal has revealed collusion between Britain's press, politicians and police, with many critics citing those close ties as the reason the illegal practices went undetected for so long. The Guardian's Amelia Hill, who helped reveal details of alleged widespread criminality at Murdoch's News of the World title, had been questioned by police over whether she received confidential information from a detective. Police had also previously attempted to force the Guardian to reveal its sources on the phone-hacking scandal, sparking a furious row about press freedom in Britain. Alison Levitt, principal legal adviser to the Director of Public Prosecutions, said there was enough evidence to prove that a police officer passed information to Hill which resulted in articles detailing who had been arrested in the hacking scandal.