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1. October 12, 2011 06:19 PM

   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

   Read this Wall Street Journal story from this morning on the resignation of its European edition's publisher. What the Journal reports is bad enough: That the publisher, Andrew Langhoff, "personally pressured two reporters into writing articles featuring" a Journal customer. But, now read The Guardian from this afternoon. The problems at the Journal, we find, are much worse than the...

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2. December 23, 2011 01:14 PM

   The Guardian’s Big Hacking-Scandal Error

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

   By Ryan Chittum

   When The Guardian dropped its Milly Dowler bombshell back in July, I called the News Corporation hacking it reported "abhorrent and illegal." But I reserved the harshest words ("downright evil") for the News of the World's alleged deletion of Dowler's voicemails. That Guardian report unleashed the whirlwind. Since then, the News Corp. hacking scandal has exploded, taking down the 168-year-old...

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3. June 8, 2011 01:15 PM

   Times’s Jill Abramson: Dog Nut, Norse Deity

   The profiles are rolling in

   By Joel Meares

   Almost a week after The New York Times announced that executive editor Bill Keller was stepping down and Jill Abramson was stepping up, the inevitable profiles are beginning to trickle through. (She really likes dogs.) Today, The Guardian, The New York Observer, and WWD each offer their takes on the Times’s new head honcho. Which True Manhattan Story you...

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4. October 12, 2011 06:35 PM

   Wall Street Journal Europe Sourcing Was Unusual

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

   By Ryan Chittum

   We now know, thanks to reporting in the both The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal itself, that Andrew Langloff, recently resigned publisher of The Wall Street Journal Europe pressured Journal reporters to write about a company called Executive Learning Partnership that bought cheap copies of the paper to boost its circulation. We also know that the WSJE subsequently ran...

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5. March 8, 2011 03:18 PM

   A Letter From a Pressman in Tripoli

   By Joel Meares

   From Tripoli, The Guardian’s Peter Beaumont has a thoughtful report on what conditions are like on the ground for foreign journalists covering clashes in Libya—a report that unsurprisingly differs from the picture of a free-roaming press being pushed by the administration there. Beaumont argues in that it’s virtually impossible for journalists to move freely around the country—a claim backed up...

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6. July 7, 2011 03:57 PM

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

   And it isn’t pretty

   By Ryan Chittum

   A lot of powerful people in the UK have suddenly found their spines in the last few days. That's perhaps the most remarkable impact The Guardian's Milly Dowler scoop has had. As Editor Alan Rusbridger put it, "The palpably intimidating spectre of an apparently untouchable media player has been burst." And he would know. This scandal has a larger meaning...

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7. July 8, 2011 01:35 PM

   Another Guardian Scoop: Destruction of Evidence at News Corp.

   By Ryan Chittum

   One benefit of being nearly alone on a story for years: When everybody suddenly wakes up to it, you've still got the advantage of years of reporting. You know the sources and the lay of the land, and everyone else can only try to play catch-up. So it's no surprise that Nick Davies and The Guardian are the ones moving...

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8. March 23, 2011 11:15 AM

   Arab Spring: A Guardian Interactive Timeline

   By Lauren Kirchner

   On Tuesday, The Guardian posted an excellent infographic, ”The path of protest,” which promises to make the popular uprisings sweeping the Middle East a little easier to follow. The timeline begins on December 17, when Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in Tunisia, and goes up until today, with Libya’s Gaddafi calling the U.S. and its allies “a bunch of...

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9. November 10, 2011 07:44 PM

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

   By Ryan Chittum

   Read Guardian Editor Alan Rusbridger's Orwell lecture for an excellent overview and analysis of Murdoch's hacking scandal, and his paper's lonely role in uncovering it. On a day MP Tom Watson called James Murdoch a "mafia boss," Rusbridger explains why the press, the police, politicians, and regulators covered up for News Corporation: The simplest explanation is a combination of fear,...

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10. July 28, 2011 07:25 PM

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

    By Ryan Chittum

    Nick Davies lands another big scoop on the Murdoch hacking scandal, reporting that police investigators believe the News of the World gave a phone to the mother of a murder victim and then hacked it or at least tried to hack it. This was no run-of-the-mill murder case, either. Davies reports that then-editor Rebekah Brooks gave the phone to Sarah...

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11. December 14, 2011 06:16 PM

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

    By Ryan Chittum

    The Wall Street Journal has a good look at how European banks have been busy writing hundreds of billions of dollars worth of credit-default swaps on PIIIGS sovereign debt: The numbers show European banks have sold a total of €178 billion ($238 billion) worth of insurance policies, in the form of financial derivatives known as credit-default swaps, on bonds issued...

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12. February 14, 2012 11:58 PM

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

    By Ryan Chittum

    The New Yorker's George Packer deftly riffs off both Charles Murray's new book on turmoil in the white lower and working classes and Sunday's enormous New York Times story on the cognitive dissonance of conservatives who decry government spending but depend on it: Visit most towns or rural areas where factories are boarded up and all the economic life is...

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13. July 8, 2011 04:53 PM

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

    By Ryan Chittum

    The Guardian writes today that the "Phone hacking spotlight falls on former News International boss Les Hinton." As well it should—particularly here in the U.S. Hinton is who Rupert Murdoch installed as CEO of Dow Jones, which publishes The Wall Street Journal. He was CEO of News International when the hacking crimes were being committed and, later, not a very...

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14. October 26, 2011 06:36 PM

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

    By Ryan Chittum

    The inequality I talked about earlier today has been caused on a couple of levels. While the market income of the top 1 percent has exploded, it has also paid lower tax rates on that windfall. James Kwak posts this Tax Policy Center chart, which shows how the Bush tax cuts changed after-tax incomes dramatically at the tippy top and...

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15. 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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16. June 27, 2012 08:06 PM

    Audit Notes: News Corp. split edition

    More on the implications of Murdoch's move

    By Ryan Chittum

    The Financial Times's John Gapper has the best take on what Rupert Murdoch's bustup of News Corporation means: Some US investors believe that the BSkyB deal could be put back on the table under the new structure. That is not plausible. Splitting assets into two companies, both controlled by the Murdoch family, will make no difference, at least until Britain’s...

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17. July 7, 2011 12:42 AM

    Audit Notes: News Corporation Hacking Scandal Edition

    By Ryan Chittum

    The Guardian's Nick Davies, the person most responsible for unearthing Rupert Murdoch's News of the World scandal, has another must-read today, reporting on what Rebekah Brooks knew and when she knew it. He reports Scotland Yard met with Brooks back in 2002 to complain that her journalists had tailed detective David Cook, who was investigating a 1987 murder whose top...

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18. March 21, 2012 12:34 AM

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

    By Ryan Chittum

    In 2011, The Guardian had one of the best years any paper has ever had. Its reporting on the systemic corruption of the News of the World, The Sun, and the authorities gravely wounded the Murdoch empire, once virtually invincible in the UK. So the British press gets together to hand out awards every year, as the press anywhere is...

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19. July 7, 2012 12:44 AM

    Audit Notes: NYT on JPM, The Guardian’s future, Big Lie of the crisis

    Jamie Dimon's bank pressured brokers to steer clients into its own funds

    By Ryan Chittum

    The New York Times reports that JPMorgan Chase pressured its brokers to steer its retail clients into its own investment funds—even when they were worse than others on the market. “I was selling JPMorgan funds that often had weak performance records, and I was doing it for no other reason than to enrich the firm,” said Geoffrey Tomes, who left...

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20. November 18, 2011 07:56 PM

    Audit Notes: Occupy Maybelline, Abramoff on the Revolving Door, News Corp. (UPDATED)

    By Ryan Chittum

    The Occupy Wall Street movement is already having its dissent commodified. As BagNews shows, this Maybelline commercial shows its models prancing around in co-opted Occupy imagery (UPDATE: Or not. BagNews updates its post to note that the Maybelline commercial predates Occupy by a year, though it asks whether it's been rolled out again for the events): This ad is offensive...

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