LONDON –  News Corp.'s UK newspaper unit has agreed to pay about £3 million ($4.7 million) over recent allegations that its News of the World tabloid hacked the phone of a murdered teenage girl in 2002, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing a source.

The media giant's News International unit has agreed to pay roughly £2 million to the Dowler family and about £1 million to a charity, a person familiar with the matter said.

Unlike dozens of other alleged phone hacking victims, the Dowler family has not filed a lawsuit against the company.

The payments stem from allegations that in 2002 News of the World hacked the voicemails of missing 13-year-old Milly Dowler, who it turned out had been murdered.

The revelation this summer that Dowler had been a target of phone hacking triggered widespread public outrage and escalated the scandal, which led to the July closure of the tabloid and the resignation of two senior News Corp. executives. It also derailed a multibillion-dollar acquisition the company had planned to make.

A News International spokesman declined to comment.

In July, News Corp. Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch met with and apologized to the Dowler family. He has also called the phone hacking scandal generally a "major black eye" for the company.

News Corp. is the parent company of The Wall Street Journal, Fox News and NewsCore.