Mediagazer: Showdown Time for Murdoch (Wall Street Journal)

11:10 AM ET, July 19, 2011

Top News:

BBC:

Phone hacking: Rupert Murdoch ‘humbled’ by MPs' probe — Rupert and James Murdoch are likely to be asked what took place at the News of the World — Rupert Murdoch has said his appearance before MPs to answer questions about phone hacking is the “most humble day of his life”.

Discussion: Poynter, BBC, Mixed Media, Guardian, The Lede, TechCrunch, The Independent, Fast Company, Reuters, Washington Post, @piersmorgan, Yahoo! News, ABCNEWS, Channel 4, Left Foot Forward, content.met.police.uk and @bloombergtv

Bloomberg:

News Corp. Said to Consider Chase Carey as CEO — News Corp. is considering elevating Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey to chief executive officer to succeed Rupert Murdoch, people with knowledge of the situation said. — A decision hasn't been made and a move depends in part …

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Liveblogging Murdoch & Son at PhoneGate Hearing: “I Don't Know” — This morning, News Corp. CEO and majordomo Rupert Murdoch, his son James (who is also a top company exec), as well as former employee and full-time lightning rod Rebekah Brooks, march on down to the British Parliament …

Discussion: Guardian, The New York Observer, Journalism.co.uk, On Media's Blog and Forbes.com

Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:

The Statement The Murdochs Wanted To Make Before The MPs Said No — Before MPs kicked off their phone hacking questions for James and Rupert Murdoch today, James asked John Whittingdale, the chair of the Commons Committee on Culture, Media and Sport, if he could read out a statement—another apology.

Discussion: Guardian and BBC

Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:

Rupert Murdoch has board backing — (Reuters) - News Corp independent directors are fully behind Rupert Murdoch, a board member told Reuters on Monday, as his iron grip on his vast media empire came under question because of the hacking scandal that already has consumed his London newspaper company.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, paidContent:UK and Gawker

Guardian:

News of the World phone-hacking whistleblower found dead — Death of Sean Hoare - who was first named journalist to allege Andy Coulson knew of hacking - not being treated as suspicious — • Sean Hoare profile: A courageous and distinguished reporter

Felix Salmon:

Could News Corp end up in play? — The increasingly-fragile nature of Rupert Murdoch's hold on News Corp has refocused attention on its dual-class share structure. As John Gapper noted last week, such structures aren't particularly good for minority shareholders like you or me.

Discussion: The Wire and FT Alphaville

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

How News Corp. Will Change After the Hacking Scandal — Rupert Murdoch. Image by Getty Images via @daylife — Addressing Parliament, British Prime Minister David Cameron demanded “root and branch change” at News Corp. in response to an emerging pattern of law breaking by its tabloid journalists.

Discussion: Adweek, Forbes.com, Broadcasting & Cable and Wall Street Journal

Bloomberg:

Murdoch Struggles for Control as Scandal Grows — News Corp. (NWS)'s Rupert Murdoch is struggling to control the destiny of the company he began building six decades ago after a trusted deputy was arrested and Scotland Yard's top official quit over ties to a suspect in the phone-hacking probe.

Discussion: New York Times, Mixed Media, The Daily Dish, Guardian, Adweek, The Huffington Post, Forbes.com, On Media's Blog, The Wire, Felix Salmon, ABC News, Crikey, Wired In Blog| BNET, TVNewser and Company Town

New York Times:

Murdoch Aides Long Tried to Blunt Scandal Over Hacking — LONDON — Two days before it emerged that The News of the World had hacked the cellphone of a murdered schoolgirl, igniting a scandal that has shaken Rupert Murdoch's media empire, his son James told friends that he thought the worst of the troubles were behind him.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Press Gazette, The New York Observer, Guardian, msnbc.com, The Nation, Tom Watson, Salon, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, American Journalism Review, Newsweek and Kirk LaPointe's …

Wall Street Journal:

Showdown Time for Murdoch — Reputations at Stake as News Corp. CEO Testifies Before U.K. Panel on Tabloid-Hacking Scandal — News Corp. is embroiled in a phone-hacking scandal that threatens the legacy of CEO Rupert Murdoch, left, shown with son James in 2010.

Discussion: mediabistro.com, Free Press, Washington Post, Guardian and The Big Picture

Nick Robinson / BBC: From inside the Murdoch hearing

Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Can Hands-on Boss Rupert Murdoch Plausibly Deny Knowledge of Hacking at the News of the World?

Discussion: Poynter, Adweek, AllThingsD, MediaFile and News Desk

Reuters: Special report: Rupert Murdoch, a hands-on newspaperman

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:
Updated: The Sun and News International sites hacked, Lulzsec claims responsibility

Johnnie L. Roberts / The Wrap:
A Rupert Murdoch Peer: He's ‘Dead Money’

Discussion: Media & Entertainment, Press Gazette, Guardian, The Wire, Broadcasting & Cable, Mediaite, AdAge, Jon Slattery, Journalism.co.uk, On Media's Blog, Media Week, FleetStreetBlues, paidContent:UK, Pocket-lint, Future of Journalism and The Independent, more at Techmeme »

Phillip Mendonça-Vieira:

The nytimes they are a-changin' — Due to an errant cron task that ran twice an hour from September 2010 to July 2011, I accidentally collected about 12,000 screenshots of the front page of the nytimes.com (unfortunately, you can only watch the whole 7 minutes if you stick to 480p).

Discussion: Future of Journalism, Gizmodo, Garcia Media, Nieman Journalism Lab, paidContent, The Business Insider and Future Journalism Project

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

News orgs publish ebooks to capitalize on trending news, archived content — As more people buy e-readers and download books through digital stores, some news organizations are finding they can capitalize on their expertise and archives of information by quickly publishing e-books related to big stories.

Discussion: Editors Weblog

New York Magazine:

21 New Media Innovators — While the dark days of journalism have receded a bit — it was only three years ago that layoffs were a weekly occurrence, and serious people discussed the closure of the New York Times — the business is still very much in a state of chaotic flux.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

WP hires three bloggers to work with Ezra Klein — They are Suzy Khimm, who leaves Mother Jones; Sarah Kliff, formerly of Politico; and Brad Plumer, a New Republic associate editor. The Post memo is after the jump. — The Financial staff is thrilled to announce that we've hired three talented bloggers to work with Ezra Klein.

Discussion: FishbowlDC