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Murdoch, "Humble," in Global Headlines

July 20, 2011

Below, a look at how the most recent turns in the phone hacking scandal—yesterday’s testimony to Parliament from Rupert and James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks, and the interruption in that testimony by a man with a foam pie—were treated on front pages of newspapers around the world. Photographically, the pie-throwing disturbance made many appearances, and text-wise, the word “humble” was frequently featured (“humble pie,” specifically, from the New York Daily News, the Guardian in London, the Irish Times of Dublin, and Durban, South Africa’s The Mercury).

Some of News Corps.’s papers gave the news front-page treatment…





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….while other News Corp.-owned papers did not:



Here’s how the news looked in other papers today stateside…





….and, beyond:

London, UK


Sydney, Australia


Auckland, New Zealand


Dublin, Ireland


Hamburg, Germany


Prague, Czech Republic


Basel, Switzerland


Brussels, Belgium


Ljubljana, Slovenia


Sofia, Bulgaria


Kozhikode, India


Calcutta, India


Dubai, UAE


Durban, South Africa


Johannesburg, South Africa


Porto Alegre, Brazil


Santiago, Chile (below the fold: Rupert Murdoch; above the fold: Owen Wilson)


Cancun, Mexico


Calgary, Canada


Montreal, Canada


Toronto, Canada


Nova Scotia, Canada


Liz Cox Barrett is a writer at CJR.