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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
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 May 2, 2012 at 07:20 PM
Peter Oborne writes a must-read column for The Telegraph on how the Murdoch scandal is threatening, unnecessarily, to bring down... 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
Dirty Business (As Usual) at News Corporation
A golden parachute for Rebekah Brooks and surveillance of hacking victims’ lawyers
By Ryan Chittum Nov 7, 2011 at 01:16 PM
You know a company has serious problems when it's unsurprising that it gives an executive a golden parachute after her... More
Murdoch may sell his British papers
The British press asserts the embattled mogul may ditch the papers under phone hacking scrutiny
By Emily Bell May 19, 2012 at 07:45 AM
News International, the UK outpost of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, might be preparing to sell off or isolate its scandal-struck... More
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 Jul 5, 2011 at 02:43 PM
Sometimes you wonder if Rupert Murdoch's empire could get any viler, and then, sure as the sun will rise in... More
This Is How the World ends…
A cynical and fitting sacrifice for the News of The World
By Archie Bland Jul 7, 2011 at 08:45 PM
Finally it died as it has lived: in an explosion of moral piety designed to disguise actions that, in truth,... More
Water keeps rising in NOTW scandal
By Clint Hendler Jul 7, 2011 at 09:41 AM
Archie Bland, foreign editor of The Independent, and author of an excellent and prescient piece for CJR on the News... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
