James and Rupert Murdoch appearing before the Westminster parliamentary committee that has subsequently attacked their fitness as media proprietors.
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Will the damning, and somewhat surprising, verdict brought in on Rupert Murdoch by a committee of British parliamentarians, spell the end of the reign of the Wizard of Oz?
The answer depends on what is…
Rupert Murdoch arrives at the Leveson Inquiry in London last week.
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By Brian McNair, Queensland University of Technology
Actor Hugh Grant said it as well as anyone in an interview with ABC News a while back. All that was needed to end the UK’s decades-long culture of tolerance for News International’s phone-hacking, its…
The Sun is facing a crisis of its own as revelations of police bribery emerge.
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It is difficult not to supress a satisfying shiver of schadenfreude as one watches the saga of the self-immolating Murdoch Empire play itself out.
The latest episode – breath-taking in its sheer chutzpah…
James Packer, Lachlan Murdoch, Kerry Stokes, John Singleton and Gina Rinehart. While Stokes and Singleton have been around media traps for a few years now, the return of a Packer, a Murdoch and the addition…
You can't believe everything you read in the papers … but you probably will.
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So The Guardian has now retracted its earlier reports that News of the World journalists had deleted Milly Dowler’s voicemails. Those journalists hacked the dead girl’s phone but they may not have deleted…
Ray Finkelstein and Matthew Ricketson look like they're leaning towards recommending a single regulatory body for all media platforms.
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It seems that despite their sometimes bitter commercial rivalry, the Fairfax and News Limited empires agree on one thing: the Finkelstein Media Inquiry has been a giant waste of time and money.
Both have…
Murdoch is taking more control of his Australian interests now John Hartigan is gone.
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Was John Hartigan pushed or did he leave his position as CEO of News Limited just in time? It’s likely that only a handful of people know the real answer to this question; among them will be “Harto” and…
The Murdoch crisis in the UK raises many questions about media ownership in Australia.
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The Gillard Government’s media inquiry is to disregard the crucial issues of bias and concentration of media ownership, despite Bob Brown’s demands for wider terms of reference. This is, at best, misled…
Self-regulation of newspapers can lead to a conflict of interest.
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The Gillard Government has announced it will hold an inquiry into the state of the Australian print media.
One of the key elements investigated will be the role of the Australian Press Council, the self…
Tony Blair pulled back the curtain on the relationship between journalists and politicians..
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MEDIA & DEMOCRACY: On the final day of The Conversation’s series on how the media influences the way our representatives develop policy, John Keane examines how the relationships between politicians…
The media needs to ask itself some tricky questions.
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Debates have raged in the media in the aftermath of recent events in News Ltd UK.
Curtailing the freedom of the press; the ethics of methods used to source stories; quality of media reporting; and the…
Rupert Murdoch's News Ltd owns 70 per cent of Australia's daily print media
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While “Murdochgate” rolls on, the question of what it means for Australia has inevitably been attracting considerable attention.
In this discussion, News Ltd itself has played a leading role. For those…
News Corp's decision to move from Australia to the US may have now put it in the firing line.
News Corporation’s 2004 decision to domicile in the US state of Delaware has up to now been highly favourable to the Murdochs.
But News Corp may ultimately come to regret its decision as the unfolding…
Rupert Murdoch holding a copy of The Times, a News International paper
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In little more than two weeks, the long simmering issue of illegal phone hacking at News Corporation’s British newspaper News of the World has developed into a cascading crisis, with fatal results for…
As both CEO and chair of News Corp, Murdoch must accept blame for his employees' behaviour.
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News Corporation shareholders would have been justifiably disturbed when James and Rupert Murdoch told this week’s UK parliamentary committee hearing that they could not be held responsible for the behaviour…
Rupert Murdoch's Fox News attracts criticism in the US for its perceived bias.
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The decline and fall of Rupert Murdoch has more twists and turns than a colonoscopy: the closing of the 168-year-old News of the World; the resignation of two of his top executives and four Scotland Yard…
Appearing before a parliamentary committee was "my humblest day" according to Rupert Murdoch
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So, after a day of drama at Westminster, what have we learnt, other than the fact that Rupert Murdoch’s wife Wendi packs a mean left hook (future pranksters beware)?
For the best part of six hours we…
Lara Bingle and Michael Clarke faced enormous media interest over their relationship.
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Reaction to the widening News of the World scandal has again highlighted the lack of protection against invasion of privacy by the media in Australia.
Former Prime Minister Paul Keating renewed his attack…
An ethical journalistic culture cannot be imposed from above but must develop within a news gathering organisation.
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The handwritten sign hanging on the bereaved family’s door says: “No media". As a reporter, do you knock? Most journalism students yell back a resounding “No".
Okay then, what if the family has a high…
It's time to investigate the consequences of concentrated media ownership in Australia.
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As international outrage increases with each new revelation in the News International phone hacking scandal, serious questions are being raised about whether Rupert Murdoch’s empire can be considered a…
Sign of the times for Rupert Murdoch's UK print media operations
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By Brian McNair, Queensland University of Technology
Born and bred in the UK, I have spent my entire adult life in the company of News International newspapers.
And as a media scholar by profession, I have been critical of the Murdoch titles for decades…
Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper empire is reeling under the phone hacking scandal.
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Schadenfreude is the tough-sounding word that wins my vote for describing accurately how millions of people around the world are feeling about Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
For those who were long resigned…
Britain's tabloid culture is yellow journalism for the 21st century
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When American newspapermen mused on their profession a century ago, they would confess, usually with pride, that it was both cruel and mendacious – and had to be. H L Mencken, among the most influential…
Rebekah Brooks and Rupert Murdoch in London last weekend
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The ongoing phone hacking scandal in Britain raises a number of questions for Australia’s media and political future.
Could the practices engaged in by Rupert Murdoch owned newspapers like the News of…
The final edition of the News of the World carried a full page apology to its readers.
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The dramatic events around the phone-hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch’s London News of the World are unprecedented in a major news media organisation in an advanced industrial country. A newspaper closed…
Metropolitan Police officers are interviewing senior News International executives as part of their investigation into phone hacking by journalists. AAP photo
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Where to begin? The closure of a 160-year-old newspaper, the arrest of the man who until recently was the Prime Minister’s Director of Communications, the revelations that the Metropolitan Police, or at…
By Brian McNair, Queensland University of Technology
The announcement that the 168-year old British newspaper title News of the World will cease to exist after this Sunday represents a landmark moment in journalism.
The British public reacted with revulsion…
