Will Lewis, previously the general manager of Rupert Murdoch’s U.K. company during a period that has since come under heightened legal scrutiny, is now publisher of *The Washington Post.*

A New Twist in the U.K. Phone-Hacking Scandal

Was Will Lewis—now publisher of The Washington Post—complicit in covering up the crimes that brought down an infamous British tabloid?

By Nick Davies

For years while I was investigating the phone-hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch’s London tabloid News of the World, I reckoned Will Lewis was not a criminal.

Long before he was knighted by Boris Johnson, promoted by Murdoch to run The Wall Street Journal, and then poached by Jeff Bezos to become publisher of The Washington Post, Lewis was general manager of Murdoch’s U.K. company.