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Wall Street Journal circulation scam claims senior Murdoch executive

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Nick Davies - Oct. 12 (News) - One of Rupert Murdoch's most senior European executives has resigned following Guardian inquiries about a circulation scam at News Corporation's flagship newspaper, the Wall Street Journal. The Guardian found evidence that the Journal had been channelling money through European companies in order to secretly buy thousands of copies of its own paper at a knock-down rate, misleading readers and advertisers about the Journal's true circulation.

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Press Widely Criticized, But Trusted More than Other Institutions

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Pew Research - Sep. 24 (Special Report) - Negative opinions about the performance of news organizations now equal or surpass all-time highs on nine of 12 core measures the Pew Research Center has been tracking since 1985. However, these bleak findings are put into some perspective by the fact that news organizations are more trusted sources of information than are many other institutions, including government and business.

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Phone hacking also rife under Piers Morgan at Mirror, claims ex-reporter

Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - Jul. 23 (News Report) - James Hipwell, who worked as a financial journalist under the editorship of Piers Morgan, said the practice was "seen as a bit of a wheeze" and offered to give evidence to the public inquiry into hacking ordered by David Cameron. Hacking also took place

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Hacking Testimony Is Disputed

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Cassell Bryan Low, Paul Sonne, Steve Stecklow - Jul. 22 (News Report) - Two former executives broke ranks with News Corp. for the first time on Thursday over whether James Murdoch knew in 2008 that the phone-hacking scandal at the company's now-defunct U.K. tabloid likely involved more than just one rogue reporter, as the company had long maintained.

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How Twitter tracked the News of the World scandal

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Jonathan Richards, Alex Graul, Martin Shuttleworth, Mariana Santos, Ranjit Dhaliwal, Alastair Dant - Jul. 14 (Special Report) - The Murdochs' decision to close the News of the World was greeted with a frenzy on Twitter. The Guardian has analysed half a million tweets sent with the #notw hashtag over the past four days to capture…

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Brown 'targeted by Sunday Times'

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - By James Landale - Jul. 12 (News Report) - Gordon Brown is said to be "shocked" after it was alleged the Sunday Times targeted his personal information when he was Chancellor. Documents and a phone recording suggest "blagging" was used to obtain private financial and property details. The Browns also fear medical records relating to their son Fraser, whom the Sun revealed in 2006 had cystic fibrosis, may have been obtained.

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BSkyB Drops Below News Corp. Bid

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 09:10:01 -0700

Bloomberg - By Jonathan Browning, Robert Hutton - Jul. 11 (News) - British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc (BSY) fell below News Corp.’s offer price after U.K. Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt asked regulators whether the bidder’s undertakings were still credible following a phone-hacking scandal.

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Emphatic Farewell for British Paper Caught Up in Hacking Scandal

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Ravi Somaiya - Jul. 10 (News Report) - Reporters leaving the newsroom of The News of the World for the final time on Saturday night were told by the police to leave their desks, including their notebooks, untouched. They were allowed to keep only their cellphones. With that, the 168-year-old News of the World came to an end, brought down by a scandal over the interception of voicemail messages that is rocking Britain’s media, its police force and government, and threatens the empire of a previously unassailable mogul. The final edition included an apology to readers for the newspaper losing its way, as well as a defiant claim to being the “world’s greatest.”

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A Watchdog Professor, Now Defending Himself

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By David Carr, John Schwartz - Jun. 17 (Special Report) - ...since then questions have been raised about deceptive tactics used the the Medeill students, about allegations that mr.protess cooperated with the defense lawyers.....

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‘A Gay Girl in Damascus’ comes clean

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Melissa Bell, Elizabeth Flock - Jun. 13 (News Report) - The persona Tom MacMaster built and cultivated for years — a lesbian who was half Syrian and half American — was a tantalizing Internet-era fiction, one that he used to bring attention to the human rights record of a country where media restrictions make traditional reporting almost impossible.

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How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory

Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Rolling Stone - By Tim Dickinson - May. 30 (Special Report) - The onetime Nixon operative has created the most profitable propaganda machine in history. Inside America's Unfair and Imbalanced Network

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WikiSecrets

Tue, 24 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Frontline - By Martin Smith - May. 24 (Special Report) - It's the biggest intelligence breach in U.S. history -- the leaking of more than a half million classified documents on the WikiLeaks website throughout 2010. At the center of the controversy stands Bradley E. Manning, the Army intelligence analyst who's charged with handing them over. Who is Bradley Manning, and what does his story tell us about how and why the secret cache of documents may have been leaked? In WikiSecrets, FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith gains exclusive access to those closest to Manning -- including his father, close friends and his Army bunkmate -- and uncovers video of Manning taken around the time of the alleged handover of classified information.

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The Dark Arts

Sun, 15 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Vanity Fair - May. 15 (News Report) - It started when the News of the World hacked into the voice mails of the British royal household, in 2005, touching off a scandal that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.—and, apparently, the British authorities—tried to contain. After a score of lawsuits and new arrests, the cover-up is falling apart.

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Facebook, Foe of Anonymity, Is Forced to Explain a Secret

Sat, 14 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Miguel Helft - May. 14 (News Report) - Now, Facebook is being taken to task for trying to conceal its own identity as it sought to coax reporters and technology experts to write critical stories about the privacy implications of a search feature, Social Circle, from its rival, Google. The plan backfired after The Daily Beast revealed late Wednesday that Facebook, whose own privacy practices have long been criticized, was behind the effort. It didn’t help that some of the technology experts who were encouraged to criticize Google dismissed the privacy concerns around Social Circle as misplaced.

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'Three Cups of Tea' author forced to defend against claims he lied

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - Apr. 17 (News Report) - Greg Mortenson, the high-profile advocate of girls' education in Afghanistan and Pakistan, has been forced to defend his best-selling book "Three Cups of Tea" against charges that key stories in it are false. Mortenson shot to international fame with the book, which describes his getting lost on an effort to climb the world's second-highest peak, being rescued by Pakistani villagers and vowing to return to build a school for local girls. He also claims to have been captured by the Taliban and held for several days before being released. But another best selling-author, Jon Krakauer of "Into Thin Air" fame, told a "60 Minutes" investigation to be aired Sunday that the story is not true. "It's a beautiful story. And it's a lie," Krakauer is quoted as saying.

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Scott Powers: How my wait in a closet almost brought down the White Housealmost brought down White House

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Scott Powers - Mar. 29 (News) - I was kidnapped. That was news to me. My paper and I conspired to cover this up, to protect Vice President Joe Biden and his staff from charges they had imprisoned me at a fundraiser last week. That was news to me too.

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Washington Post suspends reporter for plagiarizing stories on Tucson shooting

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Paul Farhi - Mar. 17 (News) - The Washington Post suspended one of its most seasoned reporters Wednesday after editors determined that “substantial” parts of two recent news articles were taken without attribution from another newspaper.

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Washington Post Admits Plagiarism by Reporter

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Tanzina Vega - Mar. 17 (News) - The Washington Post published an editor’s note on its Web site Wednesday apologizing for two articles by a longtime Post reporter who used material from The Arizona Republic without crediting that newspaper or citing it as a source. The note said the articles “contained substantial material that was borrowed and duplicated, without attribution, from The Arizona Republic newspaper.”

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The State of the News Media 2011

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Pew Research - By Amy Mitchell, Tom Rosenstiel, Paul Moore, Rick Edmonds, Deborah Potter - Mar. 14 (News Analysis) - By several measures, the state of the American news media improved in 2010. After two dreadful years, most sectors of the industry saw revenue begin to recover. With some notable exceptions, cutbacks in newsrooms eased. And while still more talk than action, some experiments with new revenue models began to show signs of blossoming. Among the major sectors, only newspapers suffered continued revenue declines last year—an unmistakable sign that the structural economic problems facing newspapers are more severe than those of other media. When the final tallies are in, we estimate 1,000 to 1,500 more newsroom jobs will have been lost—meaning newspaper newsrooms are 30% smaller than in 2000. Beneath all this, however, a more fundamental challenge to journalism became clearer in the last year. The biggest issue ahead may not be lack of audience or even lack of new revenue experiments. It may be that in the digital realm the news industry is no longer in control of its own future. News organizations — old and new — still produce most of the content audiences consume. But each technological advance has added a new layer of complexity—and a new set of players—in connecting that content to consumers and advertisers.

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NPR CEO Vivian Schiller Resigns After Board Decides She Should Go

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

NPR - By Mark Memmott - Mar. 09 (News) - Her departure follows controversial remarks by NPR's chief fundraiser and last fall's controversial firing of news analyst Juan Williams.

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The Fading Power of Beck’s Alarms

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By David Carr - Mar. 07 (News Analysis) - Since last August, when he summoned more than 100,000 followers to the Washington mall for the “Restoring Honor” rally, Mr. Beck has lost over a third of his audience on Fox — a greater percentage drop than other hosts at Fox.

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Rachel Maddow on Wisconsin "Budget Crisis" - Show Transcript, Feb. 17th

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

MSNBC - By Rachel Maddow - Feb. 26 (News Report) - I‘m here to report that there is nothing wrong in the state of Wisconsin. Wisconsin is fine. Wisconsin is great, actually. Despite what you may have heard about Wisconsin‘s finances, Wisconsin is on track to have a budget surplus this year. I am not kidding. I‘m quoting their own version of the Congressional Budget Office, the state‘s own nonpartisan “assess the state‘s finances” agency. That agency said the month that the new Republican governor of Wisconsin was sworn in, last month, that the state was on track to have a $120 million budget surplus this year.

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Records Say Fox News Chief Told Employee to Lie

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Russ Buettner - Feb. 25 (News Report) - It was an incendiary allegation — and a mystery of great intrigue in the media world: After the publishing powerhouse Judith Regan was fired by HarperCollins in 2006, she claimed that a senior executive at its parent company, News Corporation, had encouraged her to lie two years earlier to federal investigators who were vetting Bernard B. Kerik for the job of homeland security secretary.

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Why Are Americans So Ill-Informed on Climate Change?

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Scientific American - By Robin Lloyd - Feb. 23 (Special Report) - As glaciers melt and island populations migrate from shores to escape rising seas, many scientists remain baffled as to why the research consensus on human-induced climate change remains contentious in the U.S.

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CBS reporter Lara Logan assaulted in Egypt

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - Feb. 15 (News) - CBS correspondent Lara Logan was beaten and sexually assaulted by a mob while covering the jubilation in Cairo's Tahrir Square on the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, the U.S. broadcasting network said on Tuesday.

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