Hugh Grant’s Latest Role: Foppish Muckraker

By Joel Meares   Apr 13, 2011 at 11:07 AM

Floppy-haired charmer Hugh Grant turns his hand to journalism in the latest issue of English left-leaner The New Statesman. The... 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

Accountability, News Corp. Style

Those with responsibility escape it

By Dean Starkman   Jul 8, 2011 at 08:52 AM

Behold, editors and reporters at The Wall Street Journal, the Times of London, Fox News, and, for that matter, the... 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

Audit Notes: Bank Consolidation, The Depression, Stuart Kuttner

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 31, 2011 at 08:02 PM

Steven Pearlstein comes out against the Capital One/ING merger, which would turn it into the country's fifth biggest bank, with... More

Audit Notes: The Milken Memory Hole, The Ax Murder and the NotW, Yahoo

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 19, 2011 at 12:28 AM

Mother Jones's Nick Baumann catches the Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press in some poor journalism. A businessman gives... More

Bad Parent

Reading The Wall Street Journal’s hamstrung coverage of its owner, News Corp.

By Dean Starkman   Jul 11, 2011 at 11:00 AM

It's been hard to watch The Wall Street Journal, still the global business-news leader, struggling with both hands tied behind... More

Chaos at Dow Jones is the Bancrofts’ Legacy

By Dean Starkman   Jul 15, 2011 at 10:18 PM

"I want you to do what's best for the company. Don’t you and the boys worry about dividends." —Jane... More

Exit James Murdoch

Cracks in the News Corp. castle walls?

By Emily Bell   Feb 29, 2012 at 05:55 PM

James Murdoch’s evacuation from the mess of News International’s UK newspaper business has been in the cards for a long... More

Forget Regulating the Press. Enforce the Law.

By Dean Starkman   Jul 13, 2011 at 09:55 AM

As Reuters has it: "The basic test of a decent police force is that it catches more criminals than... More

Murdoch takes a bow

If the Leveson Inquiries revealed anything, it was that the News Corp. chief’s self perceptions make entertaining viewing

By Emily Bell   Apr 26, 2012 at 02:25 PM

Rupert Murdoch finished his two-day testimony before the Leveson Inquiry on Thursday, convened to address the phone-hacking scandal that emanated... More

News Corp.: Barometer Rising

“Some of the activity clearly was illegal.”

By Dean Starkman   Jul 11, 2011 at 05:00 PM

Ryan Chittum already said Nick Davies and the Guardian have pulled off one of the greatest newspaper investigations of... More

No, Actually, News of the World Won’t Happen Here

By Dean Starkman   Jul 25, 2011 at 11:11 AM

In a recent spasm of radio and TV interviews about #hackgate the last couple weeks, everyone wanted to know whether... More

The Mirror’s Dodgy “9/11 Hacking” Story

A piece that triggers an FBI probe reports no actual hacking and its information is third-hand

By Dean Starkman   Jul 14, 2011 at 06:37 PM

In response to calls from Congress, the FBI has opened an investigation into whether News Corp. journalists hacked the... More

The Audit on NPR

Talking about Murdochs, News Corp., NotW, etc.

By Dean Starkman   Jul 19, 2011 at 06:24 PM

I'm on "On Point" with Tom Ashbrook on NPR's Boston affiliate, WBUR, talking Murdoch and News Corp., with Sarah... 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

The Murdochs and the MPs

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

By Felix Salmon   Jul 19, 2011 at 07:42 PM

The biggest surprise for me, at the Murdoch hearings today, was the lack of political theater and crocodile tears of... More

This Is How the World ends…

A cynical and fitting sacrifice for the News of The World

By Archie Bland   Jul 7, 2011 at 08:45 PM

Finally it died as it has lived: in an explosion of moral piety designed to disguise actions that, in truth,... More