The Guardian Unearths a Wall Street Journal Scandal

The paper claims the scalp of a Journal publisher and points to deeper problems

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 12, 2011 at 06:19 PM

Read this Wall Street Journal story from this morning on the resignation of its European edition's publisher. What the Journal... More

The Guardian’s Big Hacking-Scandal Error

Failing to attribute its deleted-messages assertion left it open to attack

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 23, 2011 at 01:14 PM

When The Guardian dropped its Milly Dowler bombshell back in July, I called the News Corporation hacking it reported "abhorrent... More

Times’s Jill Abramson: Dog Nut, Norse Deity

The profiles are rolling in

By Joel Meares   Jun 8, 2011 at 01:15 PM

Almost a week after The New York Times announced that executive editor Bill Keller was stepping down and Jill... More

Wall Street Journal Europe Sourcing Was Unusual

And the CEO of the firm involved is a former Journal executive

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 12, 2011 at 06:35 PM

We now know, thanks to reporting in the both The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal itself, that Andrew Langloff,... More

A Letter From a Pressman in Tripoli

By Joel Meares   Mar 8, 2011 at 03:18 PM

From Tripoli, The Guardian’s Peter Beaumont has a thoughtful report on what conditions are like on the ground for foreign... 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

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

Arab Spring: A Guardian Interactive Timeline

By Lauren Kirchner   Mar 23, 2011 at 11:15 AM

On Tuesday, The Guardian posted an excellent infographic, ”The path of protest,” which promises to make the popular uprisings sweeping... More

Audit Notes: Guardian Editor on Hackgate, Judge Rakoff, Confidence Game

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 10, 2011 at 07:44 PM

Read Guardian Editor Alan Rusbridger's Orwell lecture for an excellent overview and analysis of Murdoch's hacking scandal, and his paper's... More

Audit Notes: Another Davies Hacking Scoop, Greece, The Debt Ceiling

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 28, 2011 at 07:25 PM

Nick Davies lands another big scoop on the Murdoch hacking scandal, reporting that police investigators believe the News of the... More

Audit Notes: CDS Watch, Murdoch’s Email, Fracking and Quaking

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 14, 2011 at 06:16 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a good look at how European banks have been busy writing hundreds of billions of... More

Audit Notes: Government Spending, News Corp., The Machines Rise

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 14, 2012 at 11:58 PM

The New Yorker's George Packer deftly riffs off both Charles Murray's new book on turmoil in the white lower and... 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

Audit Notes: More on Inequality, Les Hinton’s Memory

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 26, 2011 at 06:36 PM

The inequality I talked about earlier today has been caused on a couple of levels. While the market income of... More

Audit Notes: Murdoch Minister Edition

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 24, 2012 at 08:03 PM

The Murdoch scandal heated (hotted?) up yet again today with James Murdoch's testimony to the Leveson Inquiry, and it now... 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

Audit Notes: Newspaper of the Year, Leverage, Wemple vs. Wolff

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 21, 2012 at 12:34 AM

In 2011, The Guardian had one of the best years any paper has ever had. Its reporting on the systemic... More