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1. February 15, 2011 01:05 PM

   “Find Me The Oldest Dog”

   By Lauren Kirchner

   The Daily’s editor in chief wants his newsroom to start producing some news, please. In a memo leaked to New York’s Daily Intel, Jesse Angelo implored his staff to go beyond “scraping the web and wires” and do some on-the-ground original reporting. “Folks, Egypt is over—time for us to get started covering America,” he wrote. Some inspiring ideas for his...

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2. 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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3. October 14, 2011 11:23 AM

   Rupert Murdoch’s “Arse”

   An ex-tabloid editor tells Parliament who kissed what

   By Emily Bell

   Ever since the News of The World phone-hacking scandal gathered pace in July this year, members of the UK press have been attempting in vain to capture the thoughts of one of Rupert Murdoch’s most successful former editors, Kelvin MacKenzie, a key architect of modern British tabloid culture and scourge of the politically-correct left. This week a Parliamentary investigation in...

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4. February 4, 2011 02:20 PM

   Salon and Slate in the Way-Back Machine

   What The Daily can learn from an earlier “digital renaissance”

   By Lauren Kirchner

   CJR has been accused of crankiness for our early critique of Rupert Murdoch’s new iPad newspaper, The Daily. The Poynter Institute’s Damon Kiesow characterized our commentary as a dismissal of the new medium, similar to early complaints about the colorful, non-traditional USA Today in the 1980s. But while we felt unsatisfied by the actual content of The Daily—it felt thin,...

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5. November 22, 2010 02:30 PM

   The Daily for iPad is On Its Way

   Rupert Murdoch skips the web, goes straight for the store

   By Lauren Kirchner

   Women’s Wear Daily broke the news last week that NewsCorp’s iPad “newspaper,” the Daily, will launch next month in a beta version, with a wider launch set for early 2011. We don’t know that much more than we did over the summer when rumors about Murdoch’s latest pet project first started circulating. That is, we know about the staff hires,...

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6. February 2, 2011 05:05 PM

   The Daily Drops

   A first look at the first issue

   By Lauren Kirchner

   When Rupert Murdoch first announced his plans to launch an iPad-only national daily news publication, we all wondered: Can it work? Who’s their audience? How many people actually have iPads, anyway? A few months later, as the launch got closer, we asked, what kind of a news organization doesn’t even have a website? (We were wrong about that one: they...

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7. February 15, 2011 01:10 PM

   The Daily’s Next Challenge

   What can the iPad newspaper do to make itself relevant?

   By The Editors

   When the highly-anticipated iPad news outlet The Daily launched on February 2, it was met with mixed reviews. Many readers and critics loved the design, hailing it as a game-changer; while CJR and others, who focused on the actual news content inside the shiny package, found it lacking. Today, two bits of news beg the question, What’s next for The...

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8. July 28, 2011 11:28 AM

   What Rupert Wrote

   Insight from a pre-scandal letter to News Corp. stockholders

   By Michael Castenegra

   The Rupert Murdoch who appeared before the British Parliament was nothing like the Rupert Murdoch of reputation. But even that Rupert Murdoch is not the full version. For some insight into that it helps read to read his annual letter to stockholders, which helps explain how he sees News Corporation. Or at least how he saw it before the scandal....

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