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1. February 9, 2012 02:20 PM

   BusinessWeek Goes Inside a Critical Hacking Scandal Meeting

   Murdoch, at a fork in the road, chose the coverup

   By Ryan Chittum

   Bloomberg BusinessWeek has a fantastic story reporting on a critical meeting Rupert Murdoch held last May to plot how to contain the hacking scandal. The detail and reporting here are remarkable. Nobody at the dinner in Murdoch's London townhouse goes on the record, but Bloomberg's Greg Farrell pieces together the meeting by talking to four attendees on background. With color...

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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. October 13, 2011 11:10 AM

   WSJ Backs Up The Guardian on European Scandal

   Its reporting disputes its parent company's denials

   By Ryan Chittum

   Last night, Dow Jones slammed The Guardian's report on wrongdoing at The Wall Street Journal Europe, calling it "replete with untruths and malign interpretations" and claiming that someone The Guardian called a whistleblower wasn't one because "that employee was first investigated by the company because of concerns around his business dealings." This morning, The Wall Street Journal's news side redeems...

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7. July 25, 2012 02:36 PM

   A big week for the British press

   Rupert Murdoch resigns, Leveson Inquiry closes, UK journalists charged

   By Hazel Sheffield

   Rupert Murdoch’s recent resignation from the boards of his UK newspapers seems, at first glance, like a dramatic move to distance himself from News International, the British arm of his News Corporation empire. His announcement came just days before the close of the Leveson Inquiry, the investigation that opened in November to examine culture and ethics in British media, focusing...

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8. July 7, 2011 05:49 PM

   A Young Rupert Murdoch in Britain, Via the BBC Archives

   Adam Curtis pulls fascinating archival footage that shows the tycoon on his way up

   By Ryan Chittum

   The BBC's Adam Curtis has a fascinating blog called The Medium and the Message where he digs into the network's unparalleled archives and posts old clips that piece together a bit of history—often on a subject in the news. Back in January, Curtis put together a brilliant piece called "Rupert Murdoch - A Portrait of Satan" with clips going back...

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9. July 8, 2011 08:52 AM

   Accountability, News Corp. Style

   Those with responsibility escape it

   By Dean Starkman

   Behold, editors and reporters at The Wall Street Journal, the Times of London, Fox News, and, for that matter, the Sunday Tasmanian, and every other News Corp. journalism property around the world: This is what happens when you do what your bosses are paying you to do. You get thrown overboard, is what happens, while those same news leaders express...

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10. 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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11. 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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12. May 2, 2012 12:13 AM

    Audit notes

    Murdoch Mauled by MPs Edition

    By Ryan Chittum

    Rupert Murdoch wasn't the only "not fit" executive seared by the select committee's report on News Corporation scandals today. The MPs found, unsurprisingly, that Les Hinton, while he was publisher of The Wall Street Journal and CEO of Dow Jones, lied to Parliament about his previous role at News International. The report accuses Hinton of "a deliberate effort to mislead...

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13. 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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14. November 4, 2011 07:38 PM

    Audit Notes: Citi’s Slaps, College Is Cheap, Voicemail Interception Compensation Scheme

    By Ryan Chittum

    Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil has an excellent, tough column on the latest settlement between Citigroup and the SEC, which shows how "Citigroup Finds Obeying the Law Is Too Darn Hard": Five times since 2003 the Securities and Exchange Commission has accused Citigroup Inc. (C)’s main broker-dealer subsidiary of securities fraud. On each occasion the company’s SEC settlements have followed a familiar...

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15. 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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16. 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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17. February 2, 2011 07:34 PM

    Audit Notes: Hacked Off Tabs, A Mirage Economy, Wall Street’s Record Pay

    By Ryan Chittum

    The New York Times has another interesting story on News Corporation and its hacking scandal, this time reporting on a lawsuit that claims News of the World stole a scoop from two competitors by hacking a flack's phone. Fun story. More important: Remember when Rupert Murdoch & Co. claimed the scandal was all the fault of a rogue reporter? Now...

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18. 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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19. March 9, 2011 07:45 PM

    Audit Notes: More Murdoch, Hiltzik on the Social Security Trust Fund

    By Ryan Chittum

    A couple of weeks ago, Allan Sloan wrote about Rupert Murdoch is using $673 million of his shareholders' money to buy Murdoch's daughter Elisabeth's production company. That self-dealing caused him to say this: It's one thing to have News Corp. employ family members. But it's a different thing to use assets of a company 88 percent owned by the public...

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20. August 26, 2011 07:37 PM

    Audit Notes: Murdoch and American Politicians, UAW, Labor’s Bulletin Board Win

    By Ryan Chittum

    Does Rupert Murdoch interfere with his news outlets? Does a bear, well, you know... The Los Angeles Times has an interesting piece of reporting on that, even if it's fifteen years old. And shows how bigtime Democratic politicians in the U.S. have played footsie with Murdoch: In 1996, the teenage son of a prominent political figure in Washington, D.C., got...

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