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13/07/2011

The political editor of the now defunct British paper the News of the World.

Extraordinary personal stories from around the world.

Today, we speak to David Wooding who was political editor of the paper at the centre of the UK phone hacking crisis - the News of the World.

He talks about his career as a tabloid journalist, the pressure to come up with exclusive stories and what it was like to find himself on the receiving end of press attention.

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Thu 14 Jul 201110:05GMT
BBC World Service Online

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