The Audit

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

The Murdoch Pushback: Attacking the Press

Pathetic attempts to play down the scandal fall flat before the facts

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 20, 2011 at 07:25 PM

There have been a number of efforts lately—obnoxious efforts—to say News Corporation's hacking scandal is some kind of "piling on"... More

The Newspaper that Said “No” to Murdoch

Thirty years ago, the Buffalo Courier-Express took a stand

By Celia Viggo Wexler   Jul 20, 2011 at 03:14 PM

On September 17, 1982, the newspaper guild of the Buffalo Courier-Express voted to do something no other media outlet in... More

Audit Notes: The Murdochs at Parliament, In the Journal, and Via Fox News

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 20, 2011 at 12:50 AM

How sweet would it have been if The Guardian's Nick Davies had been on the committee questioning Rupert and James... More

The Murdochs and the MPs

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

By Felix Salmon   Jul 19, 2011 at 07:42 PM

The biggest surprise for me, at the Murdoch hearings today, was the lack of political theater and crocodile tears of... More

The Audit on NPR

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

By Dean Starkman   Jul 19, 2011 at 06:24 PM

I'm on "On Point" with Tom Ashbrook on NPR's Boston affiliate, WBUR, talking Murdoch and News Corp., with Sarah... More

NOTW and the FCPA

Experts and pundits weigh in on a US prosecution of News Corp.

By Erika Fry   Jul 19, 2011 at 11:53 AM

Last week, Attorney General Eric Holder announced a formal investigation into allegations that News Corp. has violated the Foreign Corrupt... More

Murdoch’s Journal, Joe Nocera, and Fox-ification

The paper has slipped, but don’t give up on it yet

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 18, 2011 at 08:41 PM

We've long been critical of the changes Rupert Murdoch has wrought at The Wall Street Journal. But Joe Nocera of... More

The News Corp. Scandal is a Triumph for Investigative Reporting

Expensive, time-consuming, risky, stressful—and indispensable

By Dean Starkman   Jul 18, 2011 at 11:39 AM

It got pretty lonely.... --Ian Katz, deputy editor of the Guardian on the News of the World Story CJR's... More

The Real Rupert Murdoch Exposed

By Felix Salmon   Jul 18, 2011 at 09:08 AM

The single most important task facing Rupert Murdoch right now is to persuade the world that the illegal goings-on in... More

Chaos at Dow Jones is the Bancrofts’ Legacy

By Dean Starkman   Jul 15, 2011 at 10:18 PM

"I want you to do what's best for the company. Don’t you and the boys worry about dividends." —Jane... More

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   Jul 14, 2011 at 06:37 PM

In response to calls from Congress, the FBI has opened an investigation into whether News Corp. journalists hacked the... More

Forget Regulating the Press. Enforce the Law.

By Dean Starkman   Jul 13, 2011 at 09:55 AM

As Reuters has it: "The basic test of a decent police force is that it catches more criminals than... More

News Corp.: Barometer Rising

“Some of the activity clearly was illegal.”

By Dean Starkman   Jul 11, 2011 at 05:00 PM

Ryan Chittum already said Nick Davies and the Guardian have pulled off one of the greatest newspaper investigations of... More

Bad Parent

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

By Dean Starkman   Jul 11, 2011 at 11:00 AM

It's been hard to watch The Wall Street Journal, still the global business-news leader, struggling with both hands tied behind... More