The deputy editor of the Sun, Geoff Webster, is to be charged with allegedly authorising payments to public officials for information, the Crown Prosecution Service has said.
He is to be charged with two counts of misconduct in a public office, relating to two payments totalling £8,000.
The charges are part of the Met's Operation Elveden, a probe into illegal payments to public officials.
Mr Webster will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 26 March.
The official in the first charge cannot be identified for legal reasons, and the second - who has not been named - is understood to have been either a member of the armed forces or a Ministry of Defence employee.
'Unknown official'Alison Levitt QC, principal legal advisor to the director of public prosecutions, said in a statement that Mr Webster was being charged with "two offences of conspiring to commit misconduct in public office, contrary to section 1(1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977".
She added: "The first offence relates to allegations that Mr Webster, between July 2010 and August 2011, authorised payments totalling £6,500 for information supplied by a public official to one of his journalists.
"The second offence relates to an allegation that in November 2010, Mr Webster authorised a payment of £1,500 for information provided by an unknown public official."
About 60 people have been arrested as part of the Metropolitan Police's Elveden inquiry, which is being run alongside two other police investigations.
Operation Weeting is an inquiry into alleged phone hacking, while Operation Tuleta is an investigation into computer hacking and other privacy breaches.
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