Ace in the Hole (1951)

What a sixty-year-old noir can tell us about the Murdoch hacking scandal

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 12, 2011 at 11:15 AM

I’ve got Murdoch on the brain, but I couldn’t help thinking about the News of the World scandal while watching... More

BusinessWeek Goes Inside a Critical Hacking Scandal Meeting

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

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 9, 2012 at 02:20 PM

Bloomberg BusinessWeek has a fantastic story reporting on a critical meeting Rupert Murdoch held last May to plot how to... More

News of the World and U.S. Media Culture

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 6, 2011 at 08:17 PM

I was asked an interesting question earlier today by a BBC producer who wanted to know about the American angle... 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

The Wall Street Journal: Murdochification Watch

The paper runs a thinly sourced, and quickly denied, scoop on non-News Corp. bribes

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 2, 2011 at 10:06 PM

Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, unsurprisingly, hasn't done a whole lot of digging on the News Corp. hacking scandal. Or... More

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   Jul 7, 2011 at 05:49 PM

The BBC's Adam Curtis has a fascinating blog called The Medium and the Message where he digs into the network's... More

Accountability, News Corp. Style

Those with responsibility escape it

By Dean Starkman   Jul 8, 2011 at 08:52 AM

Behold, editors and reporters at The Wall Street Journal, the Times of London, Fox News, and, for that matter, the... 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

Audit notes

Murdoch Mauled by MPs Edition

By Ryan Chittum   May 2, 2012 at 12:13 AM

Rupert Murdoch wasn't the only "not fit" executive seared by the select committee's report on News Corporation scandals today. The... 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: WSJ’s Facebook Non-News, Bogus Bloomberg, Tabloid Id

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 29, 2011 at 11:54 PM

Fortune's Dan Primack calls out The Wall Street Journal for hyping non-news on page one that Facebook is going to... 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: Bank Consolidation, The Depression, Stuart Kuttner

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 31, 2011 at 08:02 PM

Steven Pearlstein comes out against the Capital One/ING merger, which would turn it into the country's fifth biggest bank, with... 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: Citi’s Slaps, College Is Cheap, Voicemail Interception Compensation Scheme

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 4, 2011 at 07:38 PM

Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil has an excellent, tough column on the latest settlement between Citigroup and the SEC, which shows how... More

Audit Notes: Data Pool 3, The UK Prints, Copyright

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 30, 2012 at 07:56 PM

Scotland Yard arrested four top current and former Sun journalists and a cop. The Guardian's Nick Davies gives us the... More

Audit Notes: Davies on Murdoch, Banks Eye the Poor for Fees, TARP ROI

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 26, 2012 at 08:53 PM

Nick Davies writes in The Guardian that, after a second day of questioning under oath, "Rupert Murdoch is in trouble...... More

Audit Notes: Ex-Execs Flip, Rupert’s Management, Daily Show

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 21, 2011 at 10:30 PM

The big Murdoch hacking scandal news today is that two former News of the World executives contradicted James Murdoch's... More