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Documents released Tuesday in London by a Parliamentary committee contain charges that illegal phone hacking was a widespread practice and that its occurrence was well known at the highest levels of Rupert Murdoch's now closed tabloid News of the World.In addition, the documents also challenge t

As the National Association of Black Journalists holds its annual convention in Philadelphia yesterday through this weekend, Tell Me More looks at the past, present and future of the world's top black-owned and -operated publishing company.In the 1940s, John H.

Rupert and James Murdoch appear to have won important corporate backing for their continued leadership of News Corp.

In his new book, Muzzled: The Assault on Honest Debate, the journalist Juan Williams argues that his contract was terminated by NPR as part of a larger pattern of the suppression of unwelcome opinions.Indeed, the overall theme of Muzzled is that reasonable people are being shut up