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Murdoch Exec Resigns Amid WSJ Circulation Questions

Mary Papenfuss — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 02:02:00 CDT

A top executive in Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has quit after questions were raised about possible manipulation of circulation figures of the Wall Street Journal's Europe edition. Andrew Langhoff resigned as publishing chief of Dow Jones & Co. after the Guardian reported that the newspaper had devised a scheme allowing...

WikiLeaks Blames Guardian for Cable Leak

Rob Quinn — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 05:43:21 CDT

A lesson in the importance of changing your passwords, courtesy of WikiLeaks and the Guardian : An unredacted version of WikiLeaks' entire trove of US diplomatic cables has been leaked online and WikiLeaks says it's all the newspaper's fault, the BBC reports. A message from the site posted on Twitter accuses...

Guardian Journo: I Hacked Phones, Too

Matt Cantor — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 09:20:05 CDT

In a sort of odd pot-meets-kettle situation, a Guardian investigations editor who was on the team that helped blow the lid on the News of the World scandal himself admitted to hacking ... in 2006. Following NotW royal editor Clive Goodman’s guilty plea, David Leigh wrote that he had hacked phones...

Russia Expels Journalist After WikiLeaks Stories

John Johnson — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:25:05 CST

This won't help the perception that Vladimir Putin is a wee bit thin-skinned: When a British reporter tried to re-enter Russia after writing a series of damning articles based on the WikiLeaks cables, he got this message from a security official: "For you, Russia is closed," reports the Guardian . The...

Assange Threatens to Sue Guardian

Mark Russell — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 04:58:00 CST

Julian Assange maybe be dedicated to exposing government communications, but when others communicate information about him that he dislikes, he's apparently not so open. Assange is threatening to sue the Guardian newspaper for libel; the Independent reports that he's believed to be upset that a book published by the newspaper...

Times , Guardian Vow to Back Assange in Court

Kevin Spak — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:49:58 CST

If the US ever tries to prosecute Julian Assange for his various information leaks, the editors of the Guardian and the New York Times say they’d have his back. “If, God forbid, ever this came to court, I would be completely side-by-side with him,” said Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger at...

Assange Threatened to Sue Guardian Over Leaked Cables

Rob Quinn — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 05:59:42 CST

Julian Assange, allegedly a slave to transparency, threatened to sue the Guardian if it printed stories based on cables leaked without his permission, according to a lengthy Vanity Fair investigation of WikiLeaks' troubled relationship with its media partners. The threat came after a disgruntled WikiLeaks volunteer gave the newspaper documents...

Massive Records Leak Bares Chilling Afghan War Secrets

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:20:03 CDT

Covert operations, hidden civilian victims of the Afghanistan War and US suspicions that Pakistan is aiding the Taliban are among the shocking secrets bared in some 92,000 leaked American military documents posted yesterday on Wikileaks . The New York Times, the Guardian and Der Spiegel were given early access to...

Minister Skewers 'Stalinist' Journo Over McItaly Rip

Will McCahill — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:09:00 CST

After a British writer ripped into the Italian government for not only allowing but wholeheartedly endorsing a new line of McDonald’s burgers linked to the Italy’s famous cuisine, the country’s agriculture minister fired right back, attacking the writer as “Stalinist” and for “baying at the moon.” The Guardian ’s Matthew...