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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. May 2, 2012 07:20 PM

   Audit notes: Murdoch and the Conservatives, M&A, ESPN fail

   Tantalizing but thinly sourced info on Rebekah Brooks's texts to David Cameron

   By Ryan Chittum

   Peter Oborne writes a must-read column for The Telegraph on how the Murdoch scandal is threatening, unnecessarily, to bring down David Cameron's government. The Conservatives don't fully realize that Murdoch's vice grip has been loosened, that for the few officials like Tom Watson and Vince Cable who refused to be corrupted, it looks like "their integrity has paid off and...

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3. March 8, 2012 08:44 PM

   Audit Notes: Tabloid Chutzpah, Paywall Performance, The Fed and Dividends

   By Ryan Chittum

   Rebekah Brooks, former head of Rupert Murdoch's UK tabloids, which were rogue even by the viciously sensationalist standards of that industry, has her attorney Stephen Parkinson take to the pages of the Telegraph to argue that "The flaws in the design of the Leveson Inquiry have undermined the judicial process" and asking "can these journalists really get a fair trial?"...

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4. November 7, 2011 01:16 PM

   Dirty Business (As Usual) at News Corporation

   A golden parachute for Rebekah Brooks and surveillance of hacking victims' lawyers

   By Ryan Chittum

   You know a company has serious problems when it's unsurprising that it gives an executive a golden parachute after her newsroom culture of industrial-scale criminality destroyed a century-and-a-half-old newspaper. The Guardian reported this weekend that Rebekah Brooks got a $2.7 million a payoff from the Murdochs upon the ignominious exit of "this one," topped off with two years of a...

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5. 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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6. July 5, 2011 02:43 PM

   Murdoch’s Hacking Scandal Gets Much Worse

   The Guardian shows News Corporation at an all-time low (and that's saying something)

   By Ryan Chittum

   Sometimes you wonder if Rupert Murdoch's empire could get any viler, and then, sure as the sun will rise in the morning and The Sun will have boobies on page three (NSFW), it always does. Today, it's not a false-propaganda-spouting Fox News talking head, it's the News of the World hacking scandal, which just got several orders of magnitude worse...

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7. 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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8. July 7, 2011 09:41 AM

   Water keeps rising in NOTW scandal

   By Clint Hendler

   Archie Bland, foreign editor of The Independent, and author of an excellent and prescient piece for CJR on the News of The World phone-hacking scandal, appeared on MSNBC last night to talk about the latest developments in the scandal. As Bland wrote for CJR's May/June issue, "one person with knowledge of the discussions inside News International" told him that there...

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