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1. The Audit

   Rupert Murdoch and the Corporate Culture of News Corp.

   July 27, 2011 10:22 AM

   Rupert Murdoch's board of directors was in the spotlight a bit yesterday, with stories in The Daily Beast and The Wall Street Journal looking at how bogus its claims of independence are. The Journal gets some sharp critics... Continue reading

2. The Audit

   Audit Notes: The Debt Ceiling Blame, Murdoch’s Meddling, Thou Shalt Not Autoplay Videos

   July 26, 2011 06:45 PM

   Frustrated with the debt-ceiling coverage, which is far too even-handed, I wrote this last night on Twitter: it's very simple: if one party would pay our bills, while the other won't (without) meeting its demands, then the latter is... Continue reading

3. The Audit

   The NYT Paywall Is Out of the Gate Fast

   July 22, 2011 08:14 PM

   The Wall Street Journal has long had a successful online paywall. The Financial Times has one, too. We can confidently say now that The New York Times will be the third major newspaper success. The Times Company as a whole... Continue reading

4. The Audit

   CNN, Piers Morgan, and the Hacking Scandal

   July 22, 2011 02:00 AM

   It would be rather ironic if Fox News enemy CNN turns out to have a hacking-scandal-by-association problem on its hands, brought on by News Corp.'s woes and CNN’s decision to hire a former British tabloid editor to anchor an hour... Continue reading

5. The Audit

   Audit Notes: Ex-Execs Flip, Rupert’s Management, Daily Show

   July 21, 2011 10:30 PM

   The big Murdoch hacking scandal news today is that two former News of the World executives contradicted James Murdoch's testimony before Parliament on whether they had showed him a critical email before he signed off on the huge Gordon... Continue reading

6. The Audit

   The Murdoch Pushback: Attacking the Press

   July 20, 2011 07:25 PM

   There have been a number of efforts lately—obnoxious efforts—to say News Corporation's hacking scandal is some kind of "piling on" by opponents with a “commercial or political agenda.” The implication, not least from Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal editorial page... Continue reading

7. The Audit

   Audit Notes: The Murdochs at Parliament, In the Journal, and Via Fox News

   July 20, 2011 12:50 AM

   How sweet would it have been if The Guardian's Nick Davies had been on the committee questioning Rupert and James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks today (although Tom Watson was pretty great)? Alas, we'll have to settle for a... Continue reading

8. The Audit

   Murdoch’s Journal, Joe Nocera, and Fox-ification

   July 18, 2011 08:41 PM

   We've long been critical of the changes Rupert Murdoch has wrought at The Wall Street Journal. But Joe Nocera of The New York Times went too far on Saturday, writing that my former paper has been "Fox-ified" and turned... Continue reading

9. The Audit

   Audit Notes: Les Hinton, Translating Murdoch Jr., UK Tabloid Culture

   July 8, 2011 04:53 PM

   The Guardian writes today that the "Phone hacking spotlight falls on former News International boss Les Hinton." As well it should—particularly here in the U.S. Hinton is who Rupert Murdoch installed as CEO of Dow Jones, which publishes The... Continue reading

10. The Audit

    Another Guardian Scoop: Destruction of Evidence at News Corp.

    July 8, 2011 01:35 PM

    One benefit of being nearly alone on a story for years: When everybody suddenly wakes up to it, you've still got the advantage of years of reporting. You know the sources and the lay of the land, and everyone else... Continue reading

11. The Audit

    The Audit TV: Murdoch Hacking Scandal

    July 8, 2011 11:37 AM

    The News of the World hacking scandal is like the Super Bowl of media criticism or something. I talked to the CBC about News of the World and News Corporation last night. I can't embed it, but you can watch... Continue reading

12. The Audit

    A Young Rupert Murdoch in Britain, Via the BBC Archives

    July 7, 2011 05:49 PM

    The BBC's Adam Curtis has a fascinating blog called The Medium and the Message where he digs into the network's unparalleled archives and posts old clips that piece together a bit of history—often on a subject in the news.... Continue reading

13. The Audit

    Also Exposed by The Guardian: Murdoch’s Grip on U.K.’s Elites

    July 7, 2011 03:57 PM

    A lot of powerful people in the UK have suddenly found their spines in the last few days. That's perhaps the most remarkable impact The Guardian's Milly Dowler scoop has had. As Editor Alan Rusbridger put it, "The... Continue reading

14. The Audit

    Audit Notes: News Corporation Hacking Scandal Edition

    July 7, 2011 12:42 AM

    The Guardian's Nick Davies, the person most responsible for unearthing Rupert Murdoch's News of the World scandal, has another must-read today, reporting on what Rebekah Brooks knew and when she knew it. He reports Scotland Yard met with Brooks... Continue reading

15. The Audit

    News of the World and U.S. Media Culture

    July 6, 2011 08:17 PM

    I was asked an interesting question earlier today by a BBC producer who wanted to know about the American angle to the hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World. Could this type of thing happen in the American... Continue reading

16. The Audit

    1955: When Chase Was Too Small to Bail

    July 6, 2011 10:55 AM

    American Banker has a fun flashback that helps show how out of whack our financial system has gotten in the last half century. Here's the paper's lede from January 1955 when Chase merged with the Bank of Manhattan (emphasis... Continue reading

17. The Audit

    Audit Notes: Rein In Rupert, “The Age of Greed”, Bartlett on Thatcher

    July 6, 2011 01:28 AM

    The Independent's Matthew Norman says it will be a disgrace if Britain doesn't come together to end Murdoch's outsize control of its media and government: Public repugnance on this scale is a rare and precious force in a country... Continue reading

18. The Audit

    News Corp. and Murdoch Swamped By Hacking Scandal News

    July 5, 2011 08:07 PM

    The Murdoch hacking scandal has metastasized twenty-four hours after The Guardian's bombshell that News Corporation's News of the World tabloid had hacked into a missing 13 year old girl's voicemail, deleted messages, interfering with the police investigation, while giving Milly... Continue reading

19. The Audit

    Murdoch’s Hacking Scandal Gets Much Worse

    July 5, 2011 02:43 PM

    Sometimes you wonder if Rupert Murdoch's empire could get any viler, and then, sure as the sun will rise in the morning and The Sun will have boobies on page three (NSFW), it always does. Today, it's not a... Continue reading

20. The Audit

    Audit Notes: Gutting Blame-the-Borrowers, Geithner Going? Wages and Profits

    June 30, 2011 06:00 PM

    Barry Ritholtz says "First, Blame the Lenders" in a good post today over at The Big Picture on the crisis in Greece: There is a familiar odor to the “Blame the profligate Greeks” meme now circulating. It is little... Continue reading

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