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1. August 2, 2011 10:06 PM

   The Wall Street Journal: Murdochification Watch

   The paper runs a thinly sourced, and quickly denied, scoop on non-News Corp. bribes

   By Ryan Chittum

   Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, unsurprisingly, hasn't done a whole lot of digging on the News Corp. hacking scandal. Or perhaps it has dug, but it's been so far behind on the story that it hasn't been able to advance it. But today it has a scoop on the hacking scandal—one that implicates a non-News Corp. paper, suggests in the...

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2. July 21, 2011 10:30 PM

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

   By Ryan Chittum

   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 Taylor settlement. Today, former NotW lawyer Tom Crone and former top editor Colin Myler said that Murdoch Jr. did see...

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3. April 24, 2012 08:03 PM

   Audit Notes: Murdoch Minister Edition

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Murdoch scandal heated (hotted?) up yet again today with James Murdoch's testimony to the Leveson Inquiry, and it now threatens to bring down a key member of the prime minister's cabinet—or more. Emails detail an awfully close relationship and perhaps an illegal back-and-forth, sometimes twelve messages a day, between James Murdoch and Jeremy Hunt. The problem is Hunt was...

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4. August 16, 2011 03:13 PM

   Damning New Evidence in the News Corp. Hacking Scandal

   Payments to a convict began one month after a letter reminded execs he'd kept his mouth shut

   By Ryan Chittum

   You know, it's a serious problem when you can't trust a word said by one of the very biggest owner of news organizations in the world—indeed, when evidence shows that you have to assume that it's misleading you, as MP Tom Watson now says. The latest bombshells in the Murdoch hacking scandal landed today, lobbed by defectors from the company's...

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5. February 29, 2012 05:55 PM

   Exit James Murdoch

   Cracks in the News Corp. castle walls?

   By Emily Bell

   James Murdoch’s evacuation from the mess of News International’s UK newspaper business has been in the cards for a long time. Today’s announcement that he is relinquishing his chairmanship made up in prompted speculation what it lacked in surprise. It is a cue to ask, again, what this means for the Murdoch family as keepers of the News Corp. castle,...

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6. July 19, 2011 07:42 PM

   The Murdochs and the MPs

   Survival, but no one is taking their answers at face value.

   By Felix Salmon

   The biggest surprise for me, at the Murdoch hearings today, was the lack of political theater and crocodile tears of remorse. I was expecting a ceremonial piling-on — a group of politicians all jumping at a very rare opportunity to tell Rupert exactly what they thought of him, with the billionaire mogul just sitting there and taking the insults, reiterating...

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