The News Of The World closed in July 2011 following allegations that its journalists had been involved in unlawful gathering of information.
Mariyam Kamil, for NGN, said: “The defendant is here today, through me, to offer its apologies to Mr Jefferies for the distress caused to him by the invasion of his privacy by individuals working for or on behalf of the News Of The World.
“The defendant acknowledges that such activity should never have taken place and that it had no right to intrude into Mr Jefferies’s private life in this way.”
