Media
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Rebekah Brooks Ensnared in New Phone-Hacking Allegations
Phone was a gift to a young murder victim’s mother from the News of the World editor, so the mother could stay in touch with reporters
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IMAX Earnings Fall in Q2 After Expansion, Weak Box Office
Investors send the share price down double digits for the second time this week
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Can Chase Carey Steer News Corp. Out of Scandal?
Wall Street loves the mustachioed deputy chairman and credits him for most of the conglomerate’s smarter decisions of late. Now, if only Rupert and James will step out of his way
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White House ‘Rickrolls’ America (Video)
The official White House Twitter page tricked a follower to watch the music video for Rick Astley’s 1987 song “Never Gonna Give You Up”
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L.A. Times Cuts Veteran Writers Tim Rutten, Mark Heisler, Jerry Crowe
Several high-profile staffers are cut after movie advertising fails to deliver. A Metro editor tries to buck up: “We whip asses”
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London Police Arrest Suspected News Corp., Sony Hacker
“Topiary” is allegedly the spokesman for LulzSec, a hacking group that has promised to release a trove of documents on News Corp.’s phone hacking
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Nikki Finke and Ari Emanuel: Lover’s Spat or Divorce?
The Deadline editor and founder posted a vulgar screed against WME head Ari Emanuel — with whom she’d had good relations
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Music Charts: Amy Winehouse’s ‘Back to Black’ Back in Billboard’s Top 10
The late singer’s 2006 multi-Grammy-winning album returns to the top 10 after just two days of posthumous sales fever
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Mick Jagger: Closet Conservative With an Affinity for Soft-Boiled Eggs
“His real drug and motivator was always money,” writes his biographer in “BackStage Pass VIP,” now being shopped to publishers
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Pablo Dylan on Grandpa Bob: ‘I Consider Him the Jay-Z of His Time’ (Video)
The 15-year-old emerging rapper is riding the wave of his grandfather’s fame with his recently released “10 Minutes” mixtape
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James Murdoch Expected to Keep Top Post at BSkyB
Murdoch has the backing of key board members headed into a meeting later this week
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Anderson Cooper Assures TV Critics Daytime Duties Won’t Affect Primetime
Cooper charms the room during his 30-minute session at the Beverly Hilton charms the room, but questions linger about how he’ll balance everything
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Al Franken: AT&T and T-Mobile Merger Will Kill Competition
Minnesota Democrat says a marriage of the companies will stifle innovation and kill jobs
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Harry Reid’s Debt Ceiling Plan: Auction Off Spectrum
The Senate Majority Leader says selling rights could generate $15 billion
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Amy Winehouse’s Final Days: Ironically, It Seemed Like the Worst Was Behind Her
Even as she was checking herself into and out of rehab and bombing on stage, it seemed like she had kicked the hard stuff