The UK phone-hacking scandal, that involves Rupert Murdoch's tabloid News of the World, is blowing up relentlessly. Revelations come out continuously and the news media is trying to follow them with breaking news updates.

Two are the main news of the day.
Firstly, the announcement by James Murdoch of the upcoming closure of the News of the World, compromised in its credibility and abandoned by advertisers, after 168 years.
The paper published the statement on its website.
Poynter's Rick Edmonds reflected on why shutting down the newspaper was a good business decision here and Guardian's Roy Greenslade collected what newspapers said about the closure here.

Second big news is the arrest of Andy Coulson, former NoW editor and later Downing Street's director of communication. Political implications are huge.
The Telegraph published a severe critic here.

The scandal has called into question the role of the Press Complaint Commission and generally the self-regulation system of the press, as the Guardian reported on.

The scandal is gradually widening: the Guardian reported in its live update coverage that Police have raided the Daily Star offices.
Significant developments took place - and are taking place - in the Police investigations. The Guardian reported that the Police "is investigating evidence that a News International executive may have deleted millions of emails from an internal archive, in an apparent attempt to obstruct Scotland Yard's inquiry into the phone-hacking scandal".

Another issue that the scandal will affect is the buyout of BskyB, which shares have been falling all day. The Telegraph wrote about it and Journalism.co.uk reported on culture secretary Jeremy Hunt who has been considering the impact of the News of the World closure could have on the BskyB bid.

Journalism.co.uk realized also a timeline of the scandal from the very early beginner in 2003 till now. You can see it here.

Wider reflections on the scandal and its aftermaths can be found on the Economist or on the BBC News site, which in this article analysed also the past "Fleet Street's dark era". The Independent examined the crisis of the Murdoch's empire. PBS's MediaShift reflected on the thin bounder between privacy and the public need to know.

The news spread also internationally.
The US Daily Beast wrote a "who's who" guide within the scandal.
French Le Monde reported on NoW here and Spanish El Pais wrote a round-up of the articles dealing with the matter.
Italian Il Post published a very comprehensive article about the whole scandal, from its origins.
Guardian's Roy Greenslade reported on what US newspapers said about it. Poynter published a round-up on the front pages in the UK and Canada featuring News of the World closing.

Sources: News of the World, Poynter (1), (2), Guardian (1), (2), (3), (4), (5) MediaShift, Journalism.co.uk (1), (2), Telegraph (1), (2), Economist, BBC News, The Independent, the Daily Beast, Le Monde, El Pais, Il Post