The Leveson Inquiry into press standards is to hear evidence from senior figures in the newspaper industry when it resumes for the first time since Christmas.

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Leveson to hear from Sun editors

The conservative punditocracy is all aflutter today about the Union Leader’s endorsement of Newt Gingrich. Both the newspaper’s publisher, Joseph McQuaid, and those chattering about the endorsement offer the latest evidence to the conservative media being downright daft in this primary — a result, I suspect, of their increasingly self-segregation, which abets tone-deafness. Read full article > >

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The editor of The Sun should be asked if the newspaper had any involvement in phone hacking, a Labour MP tells its party conference.

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Sun ‘must be quizzed on hacking’

What a difference three weeks make. Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch met Wall Street analysts and the press via conference call Wednesday for the first time since appearing before a committee of the British Parliament on July 19 to answer questions about the phone hacking scandal hatched by his company’s British tabloid paper, News of the World. Then: Murdoch, 80, looked doddering and abashed and sounded foggy when asked for details about what went on at News of the World and what his company, News Corp., did about it. When he wasn’t mumbling or offering monosyllabic answers to lawmakers’ questions, he was deferring to his son, James, to explain how the newspaper’s reporters and investigators broke into the phone accounts of hundreds of British citizens. Murdoch’s most memorable sound bite that day: “This is the most humble day of my life.” Read full article > >

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Rupert Murdoch of News Corp. is back to his swashbuckling self

NEW YORK — Among the bookcases and posters in Jill Abramson’s office at the New York Times is a blown-up black-and-white photo of the newsroom, circa 1895, in which a group of men huddle around a desk occupied by a woman named Mary Taft. “She looks like the boss,” said Abramson. Not quite — Taft was the paper’s second female reporter. On Thursday, the 57-year-old Abramson was named the first woman to head the Times’ newsroom in its 160-year history. Abramson’s appointment was part of a sweeping and symbolic series of changes at the newspaper, which is both a journalistic leader and one that reflects its industry’s deepening financial crisis. Read full article > >

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Jill Abramson to be first woman to lead New York Times

The News of the World’s chief reporter and a former news editor with the newspaper have been arrested and bailed on suspicion of phone hacking, the BBC understands.

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Two held over phone-hacking claim

The Newspaper Guild is joining with the unpaid bloggers at the Huffington Post, calling on them to withhold content. In a letter that calls the Post’s practice of publishing the work of unpaid writers “unprofessional and unethical,” the newspaper union…

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