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The Independent reported this weekend that the UK police are investigating Rupert Murdoch's News International (now called News UK) for corporate-level crimes in the hacking and bribery scandal. The development has caused pandemonium at the upper echelons of the Murdoch media empire. Shortly afterwards, executives in America ordered that the company dramatically scale back its co-operation with the Metropolitan Police......

This month, CJR presents "Required Skimming," a daily miniguide to our staffers' beats and obsessions. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments. BLDGBLOG -- An always delightful collection of architectural curiosities, urban-planning innovations, and miscellaneous cool stuff. 99% Invisible -- Fascinating and fun design podcast about "the 99% invisible activity that shapes our...

Guardian Editor Alan Rusbridger filed an astonishing column tonight that shows just how far the British authorities are going to suppress the paper's NSA/Snowden reporting: A little over two months ago I was contacted by a very senior government official claiming to represent the views of the prime minister. There followed two meetings in which he demanded the return or...

Felix Salmon, my sometime colleague, has a typically good post about the economics of producing journalism. Read the whole thing, as well as the first two installments of the trilogy. But I've got to dispute this part about the value of the Washington Post's sale to Jeff Bezos (emphasis mine): ... the Washington Post, just as much as the Boston...

When people die, the words used to describe their passing vary greatly, often depending on how close the writer was to the dearly departed. In paid obituaries or death notices, written by families or funeral homes, death is disguised: people "cross over" or "cross to the other side," "are called home by their maker," "went to their eternal rest," and...

Human rights organizations, freedom of speech groups, and the Brazilian government are among the plethora of groups condemning the detention and interrogation of the Brazilian partner of Glenn Greenwald. Greenwald is the Guardian reporter who has been working with Edward Snowden to expose widespread surveillance by the National Security Administration. UK police detained David Miranda for nine hours under the...

This month, CJR presents "Required Skimming," a daily miniguide to our staffers' beats and obsessions. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments. Jezebel: Gawker's sister blog is the elder stateswoman of ladyblogs at this point (along with Feministing), but it remains relevant, witty, and just the right amount of ranty about everything from...

Aaron Kushner and his revamped Freedom Communications get huge slack around here. As Ryan Chittum explained in the May/June CJR, the 40-year-old former greeting-card executive, with zero experience in newspapers, is running the most interesting and important experiment in journalism right now, based on the simple ideas that newspapers' wounds are in large part self-inflicted and there is money...

CHARLESTON, SC -- Last Thursday, folks in the newsroom at WCHS, an ABC affiliate in Charleston, WV, were feeling pretty good. Indictments had just come down against two public officials the station had named in a May broadcast, citing anonymous sources, as targets of a state and federal investigation. One employee even used the word "relieved"--though not everyone at the...

Ross Douthat has been writing a bit about how the Washington Post missed out on becoming Politico. Or owning Politico. Or something. I say hat's off to the WaPo for not becoming Politico. But Douthat makes some whopper errors when he tries to get into the numbers: We can't know exactly how that counterfactual would have played out; maybe it...

News came Tuesday on the front page of The New York Times that the Obama administration is delaying yet another provision of the Affordable Care Act--this time, an important one that will affect household pocketbooks in short order. The article, by the well-connected veteran reporter Robert Pear, disclosed that a much-touted provision to limit out-of-pocket costs, a category that includes...

Culled from CJR’s frequently updated “Must-reads from around the Web,” our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and other miscellany) on the Internet, here are your can’t-miss must-reads of the past week: Murder by Craigslist -- A serial killer finds a newly vulnerable class of victims: white, working-class men Advice for Jeff Bezos from the Post's former ombudsman...

DETROIT, MI -- Want to learn what the deal is with the hundreds of layoffs unfolding at Gannett newspapers across the country? You can get slivers of the story from the local business press and alt-weeklies, and stabs at a big-picture take from industry-watching blogs. But one place you won't find news about the layoffs? Many of the affected newspapers...

There's a petition signed by 100 left-leaning economists that proposes raising the minimum wage to $10.50 an hour. The petition relies on an estimate by Jeannette Wicks-Lim and Robert Pollin that says it would only increase business costs to a McDonald's by 2.7 percent and suggests a restaurant would increase the price of a Big Mac by just a nickel,...

The Atlantic's Jordan Weissmann has a good takedown of a Wall Street Journal story reporting that ballooning student loans are hampering entrepreneurial types from starting businesses. Surely that's true. If you have several hundred dollars a month worth of loans to pay when you start out, you're going to be less able to spurn a "real" job and start your...

This month, CJR presents "Required Skimming," a daily miniguide to our staffers' beats and obsessions. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments. Self-styled Siren: Beloved of classic film fans everywhere. Farran Nehme (@selfstyledsiren), a freelance film reviewer for The New York Post, writes about movies in such sparkling prose that you feel compelled...

FAIRWAY, KS -- It's no secret: with a few exceptions, newspapers remain way behind the journalistic curve in taking advantage of what the Web can do. But those same newspapers are still a leading source for important investigative and accountability journalism--especially in areas away from major media markets, like the Midwestern states I cover for CJR. The result is that...

Talking Points Memo has a nice follow-up on the NYT's Cory Booker/Waywire story, reporting that the "ridiculous" company, despite having already buck-raked billionaires Oprah, Eric Schmidt, and Reid Hoffman, is still trolling for investors cash. Clarke told TPM she would confirm whether or not Booker had met with potential investors since his campaign began. But minutes later, she called back...

It's hard for a czar to get attention these days. If you listen to the conservative political media, at one point there were at least 32 in the Obama administration. That count may be a teeny bit high, but there are enough random, high-ranking officials running around the executive branch that the most significant events of their tenure may be...

This month, CJR presents "Required skimming," a daily miniguide to our staffers' beats and obsessions. If we overlooked your favorite voice in the mind beat, please tell us in the comments. When writer David Dobbs announced he was moving his blog, Neuron Culture -which covers genes, brains, and everything in between-from Wired to his own platform, the Internet...