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

7:40 AM ET, July 19, 2011

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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.

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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.

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Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:

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.

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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.

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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:

Can Hands-on Boss Rupert Murdoch Plausibly Deny Knowledge of Hacking at the News of the World? — Hand on heart: Rupert Murdoch on Friday. — When Rupert Murdoch appears before British Parliament tomorrow, he'll face questions for the first time about the unfolding hacking scandal …

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Wall Street Journal:
Showdown Time for Murdoch

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Johnnie L. Roberts / The Wrap:
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Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:
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Newsweek:
How We Broke the Murdoch Scandal

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Phillip Mendonça-Vieira:

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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.

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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.

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.

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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:

On nonprofit sites, ideology often mixes with news to create hidden slant, PEJ study finds — Most accounts of the changing media landscape treat nonprofit digital start-ups as an unmixed blessing, taking up some of the slack left by shrinking legacy newsrooms.

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David Kaplan / paidContent:

Gannett: Focus Is On Growning Digital Business, Not Margins — With Gannett's digital revenues reliably growing by double digits for the past year, analysts on the company's Q2 earnings call noted that the segment's operating margins are around 25 percent. But with digital making …