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Don Van Natta Jr / New York Times:
Taint From Tabloids Rubs Off on a Cozy Scotland Yard — LONDON — For nearly four years they lay piled in a Scotland Yard evidence room, six overstuffed plastic bags gathering dust and little else. — Inside was a treasure-trove of evidence: 11,000 pages of handwritten notes listing nearly …
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Joe Nocera / New York Times:
The Journal Becomes Fox-ified — It's official. The Wall Street Journal has been Fox-ified. — It took Rupert Murdoch only three and a half years to get there, starting with the moment he acquired the paper from the dysfunctional Bancroft family in December 2007, a purchase that was completed …
The Daily Beast:
Succession Drama at WSJ — Now the Murdoch scandal has claimed Dow Jones' CEO. That has the Journal newsroom worrying they could end up working for a controversial Rupert henchman. By Nick Summers. — As the British wing of the News Corp. media empire imploded this month under the weight …
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Reuters:
Special Report: Inside Rebekah Brooks' News of the World — (Reuters) - “It was the kind of place you get out of and you never want to go back again.” That's how one former reporter describes the News of the World newsroom under editor Rebekah Brooks, the ferociously ambitious titian-haired executive …
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Daniel Boffey / Guardian:
Lawyers and PR experts drill Rupert Murdoch before parliamentary grilling — NewsCorp chief is keen to salvage his reputation and come across well when he faces a televised parliamentary hearing — Rupert Murdoch, facing his first grilling from a parliamentary select committee …
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Murdochs ‘in family fallout’ over crisis — Biographer claims Elisabeth Murdoch's outburst was directed not just at Rebekah Brooks but also her brother James — Tensions at the heart of Rupert Murdoch's empire are threatening to explode into the open amid claims that the media mogul's children are turning on each other.
James Chapman / Daily Mail:
Rebekah Brooks in line for £3.5m pay out as News International slaps gagging orders on chief executives (apart from that inquiry on Tuesday) — Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks was given a seven-figure severance package after resigning, it has emerged.
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton Stepping Down — Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton is leaving the company in the wake of the PhoneGate hacking scandal. Hinton is the second high-ranking News Corp. executive to step down today, and the first major figure from the company's American operations.
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Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:
Dow Jones CEO Hinton to Resign
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Bostonia:
News Without End — It's a rainy spring morning in midtown Manhattan, and on the sixth floor of the futuristic glass skyscraper known as Bloomberg Tower, Andy Lack is listening, energetically, as a half-dozen producers run through a short list of potential guests for Bloomberg West …
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
What media companies can learn from the book industry — We've written a lot at GigaOM about the evolution of — and disruption of — the book-publishing industry, from the rise of self-publishing phenomenons like Amanda Hocking to the launch of new e-book ventures like Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling's new Pottermore site.
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Martin Bright / Spectator:
Will the dirty business of journalism survive hackgate? — How long will it take for journalism to recover from what has been done in its name by the News of the World? It's possible to argue that our profession or trade, or whatever you want to call it, will regroup and find new ways …
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Heather Brooke / Guardian:
Let's break up this information cartel — Britain's cosy, corrupt power elite has been fostered by a black-market trade in data — Nick Clegg was right to acknowledge on Wednesday that phone hacking is the symptom of a wider problem: the cosy, corrupt relationship between the power elites.
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