The Audit

What Damage Could Rebekah Brooks Do to News Corp.?

By Felix Salmon   Jul 8, 2011 at 05:45 PM

The implosion of the News of the World, and of News Corp.’s bluster surrounding hacking and bribery allegations, comes less... More

Audit Notes: Les Hinton, Translating Murdoch Jr., UK Tabloid Culture

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 8, 2011 at 04:53 PM

The Guardian writes today that the "Phone hacking spotlight falls on former News International boss Les Hinton." As well it... 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

The Audit TV: Murdoch Hacking Scandal

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 8, 2011 at 11:37 AM

The News of the World hacking scandal is like the Super Bowl of media criticism or something. I talked to... 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

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

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

How’s Seeking Alpha’s Pay-Per-Pageview Experiment Working?

By Felix Salmon   Jul 7, 2011 at 09:41 AM

Seeking Alpha's David Jackson has given David Kaplan some hard numbers on how its pay-per-pageview program is getting along after... More

Audit Notes: News Corporation Hacking Scandal Edition

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 7, 2011 at 12:42 AM

The Guardian's Nick Davies, the person most responsible for unearthing Rupert Murdoch's News of the World scandal, has another must-read... 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

1955: When Chase Was Too Small to Bail

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 6, 2011 at 10:55 AM

American Banker has a fun flashback that helps show how out of whack our financial system has gotten in the... More

Audit Notes: Rein In Rupert, “The Age of Greed”, Bartlett on Thatcher

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 6, 2011 at 01:28 AM

The Independent's Matthew Norman says it will be a disgrace if Britain doesn't come together to end Murdoch's outsize control... More

News Corp. and Murdoch Swamped By Hacking Scandal News

Revelations come fast and furious in the twenty-four hours after a Guardian bombshell

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 5, 2011 at 08:07 PM

The Murdoch hacking scandal has metastasized twenty-four hours after The Guardian's bombshell that News Corporation's News of the World tabloid... 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

The State of the Blog

Felix Salmon Talks to Alexis Madrigal

By Felix Salmon   Jul 1, 2011 at 02:36 AM

I’ve felt for a while now that the kind of blogging I do — one person writing a series... More