ProPublica Catches Ally Financial Making It Up

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 27, 2011 at 08:33 PM

ProPublica has a terrific report today nailing Ally Financial (the former GMAC) for faking mortgage documents in order to foreclose... More

Rupert Murdoch and the Corporate Culture of News Corp.

Its abysmal corporate governance is symptomatic of a deeper disregard for the rules

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 27, 2011 at 10:22 AM

Rupert Murdoch's board of directors was in the spotlight a bit yesterday, with stories in The Daily Beast and The... More

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

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 26, 2011 at 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:... More

The NYT Paywall Is Out of the Gate Fast

281,000 paying digital subscribers in three months show readers will pay for quality news

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 22, 2011 at 08:14 PM

The Wall Street Journal has long had a successful online paywall. The Financial Times has one, too. We can confidently... More

CNN, Piers Morgan, and the Hacking Scandal

Questions raised about primetime anchor’s tenure as a tabloid editor

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 22, 2011 at 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,... More

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

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 21, 2011 at 10:30 PM

The big Murdoch hacking scandal news today is that two former News of the World executives contradicted James Murdoch's... More

The Murdoch Pushback: Attacking the Press

Pathetic attempts to play down the scandal fall flat before the facts

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 20, 2011 at 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"... More

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

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 20, 2011 at 12:50 AM

How sweet would it have been if The Guardian's Nick Davies had been on the committee questioning Rupert and James... More

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

The paper has slipped, but don’t give up on it yet

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 18, 2011 at 08:41 PM

We've long been critical of the changes Rupert Murdoch has wrought at The Wall Street Journal. But Joe Nocera of... More

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

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 8, 2011 at 04:53 PM

The Guardian writes today that the "Phone hacking spotlight falls on former News International boss Les Hinton." As well it... More

Another Guardian Scoop: Destruction of Evidence at News Corp.

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 8, 2011 at 01:35 PM

One benefit of being nearly alone on a story for years: When everybody suddenly wakes up to it, you've still... More

The Audit TV: Murdoch Hacking Scandal

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 8, 2011 at 11:37 AM

The News of the World hacking scandal is like the Super Bowl of media criticism or something. I talked to... More

A Young Rupert Murdoch in Britain, Via the BBC Archives

Adam Curtis pulls fascinating archival footage that shows the tycoon on his way up

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 7, 2011 at 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... More

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

And it isn’t pretty

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 7, 2011 at 03:57 PM

A lot of powerful people in the UK have suddenly found their spines in the last few days. That's perhaps... More

Audit Notes: News Corporation Hacking Scandal Edition

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 7, 2011 at 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... More

News of the World and U.S. Media Culture

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 6, 2011 at 08:17 PM

I was asked an interesting question earlier today by a BBC producer who wanted to know about the American angle... More

1955: When Chase Was Too Small to Bail

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 6, 2011 at 10:55 AM

American Banker has a fun flashback that helps show how out of whack our financial system has gotten in the... More

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

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 6, 2011 at 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... More

News Corp. and Murdoch Swamped By Hacking Scandal News

Revelations come fast and furious in the twenty-four hours after a Guardian bombshell

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 5, 2011 at 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... More

Murdoch’s Hacking Scandal Gets Much Worse

The Guardian shows News Corporation at an all-time low (and that’s saying something)

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 5, 2011 at 02:43 PM

Sometimes you wonder if Rupert Murdoch's empire could get any viler, and then, sure as the sun will rise in... More