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

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

Tabloid City and the Contours of Emptiness

Pete Hamill’s new novel explores a city in decline

By Jennifer Miller   May 17, 2011 at 01:32 PM

Tabloid City | by Pete Hamill | Little, Brown and Company | 288 pages, $26.99 In the opening pages of... 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: JPMorgan’s Denuded County, Recession Watch, Reporting Rumors

By Ryan Chittum   Aug 12, 2011 at 04:14 PM

Bloomberg News revisits JPMorgan Chase's screwing of Jefferson County, Alabama, as the county debates whether to file for bankruptcy because... More

Audit Notes: Radicalized, Nonprofit Newt, Murdoch’s Wedding Singer

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 28, 2011 at 07:56 PM

Kevin Drum riffs off Bloomberg Markets story on banks' bailout profits to write about how the response to the crash... More

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

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 8, 2012 at 08:44 PM

Rebekah Brooks, former head of Rupert Murdoch's UK tabloids, which were rogue even by the viciously sensationalist standards of that... More

Tracing the Hacking Scandal’s Medieval Roots

The (mis-) education of the British Empire’s Boy Reporters

By Arthur Jones   Jul 25, 2011 at 12:09 PM

Mr. Hinton joined Mr. Murdoch’s first paper, The News, in Adelaide, at age 15.... The New York Times, July 16,... More