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1. April 13, 2011 11:07 AM

   Hugh Grant’s Latest Role: Foppish Muckraker

   By Joel Meares

   Floppy-haired charmer Hugh Grant turns his hand to journalism in the latest issue of English left-leaner The New Statesman. The new role came to Grant when his ex-girlfriend Jemima Khan (a big deal socialite-turned-activist across the pond) guest-edited the journal and commissioned Grant to write a piece. He chose as his topic the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the...

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2. July 6, 2011 08:17 PM

   News of the World and U.S. Media Culture

   By Ryan Chittum

   I was asked an interesting question earlier today by a BBC producer who wanted to know about the American angle to the hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World. Could this type of thing happen in the American press? she asked. My immediate response was to say that it wouldn't. The American press is a different beast. We...

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3. 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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4. 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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5. September 18, 2012 06:50 AM

   Audit Notes: News of the World’s thugs, Occupy impact, nonprofit news

   Allegations that the paper's gumshoes broke into houses looking for dirt

   By Ryan Chittum

   What could go wrong when a Murdoch newspaper employs axe-murder suspects? A lot, as we've already seen, and it may have been worse than we've yet known. The London Evening Standard reports that an ex-cop sent undercover to probe News of the World's private investigators says they burglarized the house of "a newsworthy individual" to try to dig up dirt...

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6. August 31, 2011 08:02 PM

   Audit Notes: Bank Consolidation, The Depression, Stuart Kuttner

   By Ryan Chittum

   Steven Pearlstein comes out against the Capital One/ING merger, which would turn it into the country's fifth biggest bank, with $300 billion in assets. The truth is that there is no great social or economic benefit to Capital One buying ING. Smaller institutions could buy ING, albeit for a lower price. Or it could be spun off to existing shareholders...

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7. August 19, 2011 12:28 AM

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

   By Ryan Chittum

   Mother Jones's Nick Baumann catches the Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press in some poor journalism. A businessman gives $10 million to UCLA, which names a new program after him. Who's the businessman? Lowell Milken. The Milken name ought to raise red flags for editors, obviously, but neither the AP's brief nor the LAT's longer piece note that Lowell,...

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8. July 11, 2011 11:00 AM

   Bad Parent

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

   By Dean Starkman

   It's been hard to watch The Wall Street Journal, still the global business-news leader, struggling with both hands tied behind its back to cover the incredible scandal now engulfing its parent. The News of the World debacle—a five-alarm business story if there ever was one—is the acid test of my old paper's independence. Of course, it's not going well. This...

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9. July 15, 2011 10:18 PM

   Chaos at Dow Jones is the Bancrofts’ Legacy

   By Dean Starkman

   "I want you to do what's best for the company. Don’t you and the boys worry about dividends." —Jane Bancroft, of Dow Jones’s controlling family, giving instructions to a Dow Jones executive after the suicide of her husband, Hugh, in 1933. "The family was screwing it up right and left. My focus was more on, Jesus Christ, how am...

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10. 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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11. July 13, 2011 09:55 AM

    Forget Regulating the Press. Enforce the Law.

    By Dean Starkman

    As Reuters has it: "The basic test of a decent police force is that it catches more criminals than it employs." Prime Minister David Cameron, scrambling for his political life, has found the time to call for an overhaul of the British press regulatory system, so-called. It's true the U.K.'s Press Complaints Commission, a self-regulatory panel, is now in...

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12. May 19, 2012 07:45 AM

    Murdoch may sell his British papers

    The British press asserts the embattled mogul may ditch the papers under phone hacking scrutiny

    By Emily Bell

    News International, the UK outpost of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, might be preparing to sell off or isolate its scandal-struck newspaper titles, according to a report from rival newspaper The Daily Telegraph. The Telegraph broke the story for its Saturday morning edition, drawing a line between the speculation and the ongoing woes the Murdoch company is suffering as the result...

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13. April 26, 2012 02:25 PM

    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

    Rupert Murdoch finished his two-day testimony before the Leveson Inquiry on Thursday, convened to address the phone-hacking scandal that emanated from and ultimately closed down his News of the World tabloid. Murdoch talked at length there about his own personal anguish at the scandal, his regret he personally did nothing to stop it, and his regret that he did not...

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14. July 11, 2011 05:00 PM

    News Corp.: Barometer Rising

    "Some of the activity clearly was illegal."

    By Dean Starkman

    Ryan Chittum already said Nick Davies and the Guardian have pulled off one of the greatest newspaper investigations of all time. Well, it just got better. Here we see the virtuous cycle of news investigations—one good tip leads to another—kicking into high gear. What I love about this series is that after spending the better part of two years...

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15. July 25, 2011 11:11 AM

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

    By Dean Starkman

    In a recent spasm of radio and TV interviews about #hackgate the last couple weeks, everyone wanted to know whether a News of the World scandal could happen here. I mean, we're just as bad, aren't we? After all, Howard Kurtz says: "British tabloid tactics are rampant in American journalism, too." The Wall Street Journal's special committee on editorial integrity...

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16. July 14, 2011 06:37 PM

    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

    In response to calls from Congress, the FBI has opened an investigation into whether News Corp. journalists hacked the cell phones of 9/11 victims, as they did the phones of crime and terror victims in the U.K. We don't know what the FBI knows, of course, or what it was exactly that led Rep. Peter King to lead calls...

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17. July 19, 2011 06:24 PM

    The Audit on NPR

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

    By Dean Starkman

    I'm on "On Point" with Tom Ashbrook on NPR's Boston affiliate, WBUR, talking Murdoch and News Corp., with Sarah Ellison, author of War at the Wall Street Journal, and the FT's John Gapper. Not a bad hour of radio, if I do say so myself. For a good time, click here.

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18. July 8, 2011 11:37 AM

    The Audit TV: Murdoch Hacking Scandal

    By Ryan Chittum

    The News of the World hacking scandal is like the Super Bowl of media criticism or something. I talked to the CBC about News of the World and News Corporation last night. I can't embed it, but you can watch that interview here. This morning (um, at 5 a.m. Seattle time), I talked to Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman and Juan...

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19. July 19, 2011 07:42 PM

    The Murdochs and the MPs

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

    By Felix Salmon

    The biggest surprise for me, at the Murdoch hearings today, was the lack of political theater and crocodile tears of remorse. I was expecting a ceremonial piling-on — a group of politicians all jumping at a very rare opportunity to tell Rupert exactly what they thought of him, with the billionaire mogul just sitting there and taking the insults, reiterating...

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20. July 7, 2011 08:45 PM

    This Is How the World ends…

    A cynical and fitting sacrifice for the News of The World

    By Archie Bland

    Finally it died as it has lived: in an explosion of moral piety designed to disguise actions that, in truth, were the expression of the most ruthless and inhuman business judgment. The News of the World, Britain’s most popular newspaper, was closed down today, the victim of its own reprehensibly-won success, and 200 journalists were facing up to the reality...

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