News Corp. Tells Judge of U.K. Tabloid’s Prison-Guard Bribe

News Corp. for the first time publicly detailed bribery by a journalist at its now-defunct News of the World, telling a court that a former editor agreed to pay a prison guard to get a story about a child killer.

Matt Nixson, a features editor for five years at the paper, told a reporter in a March 7, 2009, e-mail to pay 750 pounds ($1,150) to the guard for details about a man who murdered two girls. Nixson then said to “chuck her some more money later,” since she wanted 1,000 pounds, News Corp. said in court papers filed Dec. 13 in London and made public yesterday.