Rebekah Brooks Returns to Lead Murdoch's News Corp.

Rebekah Brooks will return to her role as chief executive officer of News Corp.’s U.K. subsidiary, four years after resigning from Rupert Murdoch’s company in the wake of a phone-hacking scandal.

Brooks will replace Mike Darcey, who is leaving as CEO after three years in the job, News Corp. said in a statement. She will have added responsibilities for the acquisition and development of digital properties, the publisher said.

Brooks has been working with Storyful, a startup owned by News Corp. that helps newsrooms find and vet video content from across the Web.

Brooks — a former editor of the now defunct News of the World tabloid — was acquitted by a jury last year of all charges related to phone hacking, bribery and perverting the course of justice after scandal erupted amid the discovery that reporters hacked the phone of murdered 13-year-old Milly Dowler.

Murdoch closed the paper in 2011 to quell public outrage and Brooks was subsequently arrested. Murdoch supported Brooks throughout the legal process and failed in his attempts to stop her from resigning from the company in July 2011.

On Wednesday, News Corp. also named David Dinsmore as chief operating officer at News UK, and Tony Gallagher as editor-in- chief of The Sun, Britain’s largest-selling daily newspaper.