Here are some key facts about Brooks:
Brooks, 43, became the focus of widespread anger over the phone-hacking scandal at News International.
Born Rebekah Wade in May 1968, she was educated at a grammar school in the northwest England county of Cheshire. She joined the News of the World at the age of 20 as a feature writer and rose to become deputy editor.
In 1998 she transferred to sister tabloid The Sun, a daily, spending two years as deputy editor there before returning to the News of the World as editor in 2000, where she ran a controversial campaign to name and shame child sex offenders.
-- It was under her editorship that an investigator working for the News of the World hacked into the voicemail of missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler, later found murdered. Brooks says she did not know about the hacking.
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