Murdoch's World (67 page)

Al Waleed bin Talal,
194
,
242

Walker, Scott,
220–221

Wall Street Journal

    
A-hed as defining element,
211
,
217

    
“Can we believe the presidential polls?” (Rove),
257

    
changes under Thomson/R. Murdoch/Baker,
211–212
,
214–225

    
China cover-up article leads to retaliation against
WSJ
,
289–290

    
cuts costs by working with Dow Jones,
134

    
editorials skeptical about climate change,
98–99

    
investigates inconsistencies in Milly Dowler story,
231–234

    
with largest paid US circulation,
281

    
publishes Orwall interview of R. Murdoch,
227–228
,
232–233
,
234

    
schadenfreude editorial blames tabloid scandal on police, newspaper rivals,
229–230

    
shapes currents within Republican Party,
2

    
Special Committee for journalistic integrity,
213–214
,
230–231

    
Wendi Deng's story,
49

Wallace, Chris,
66
,
70
,
81–82
,
114
,
262–263

Wallace, Jay,
86

Wallis, Neil,
174–176

Walters, Barbara,
113

Washington Post
,
66–67
,
104
,
225

Watson, Tom

    
book about News International,
293

    
criticizes Coulson,
162
,
171

    
at News Corp shareholders meeting,
241

    
parliamentary hearings and conclusions,
203–207
,
243
,
277

    
speaks out against phone hacking,
137

    
aftermath of parliamentary conclusions,
293

Weekend Edition Saturday
program of NPR,
106

Weiss, Ellen,
108
,
118

White, Mary Jo,
208

Whitlam, Gough,
21

Whittingdale, John,
197
,
202
,
207
,
277

WikiLeaks,
130
,
229

Wilkes, Giles,
156

Williams, Juan, controversy,
102–114

Wireless Generation,
224–225

Wisconsin union protests of 2011,
220–221
,
224

Witherow, John,
244

Wolff, Michael,
48–50
,
153

Woodward, Bob,
252

Wootton, Mark,
91

World Cup games host decision (2010),
188

Wright, Jeremiah,
78

WSJ. See
Wall Street Journal

Yacktman, Don,
279

Yates, John

    
dismisses hacking allegations and police payments,
129
,
172–175
,
187–188

    
downplays payments to police for information,
166–167

    
resigns,
176

Yelland, David,
43
,
276

Zahn, Paula,
65

Zimmerman, Rob,
61
,
64
,
65

Zweifach, Gerson,
273

STEPHEN VOSS

Award-winning journalist D
AVID
F
OLKENFLIK
has been NPR's media correspondent since 2004. He previously covered media and politics for the
Baltimore Sun
and edited the 2011 book,
Page One: Inside The New York Times and the Future of Journalism
. He has covered Murdoch and News Corp extensively and has been a frequent commentator on the hacking scandal in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Folkenflik lives with his wife, the radio producer Jesse Baker, and their daughter in New York City.

PublicAffairs is a publishing house founded in 1997. It is a tribute to the standards, values, and flair of three persons who have served as mentors to countless reporters, writers, editors, and book people of all kinds, including me.

I. F. S
TONE
, proprietor of
I. F. Stone's Weekly
, combined a commitment to the First Amendment with entrepreneurial zeal and reporting skill and became one of the great independent journalists in American history. At the age of eighty, Izzy published
The Trial of Socrates
, which was a national bestseller. He wrote the book after he taught himself ancient Greek.

B
ENJAMIN
C. B
RADLEE
was for nearly thirty years the charismatic editorial leader of
The Washington Post
. It was Ben who gave the
Post
the range and courage to pursue such historic issues as Watergate. He supported his reporters with a tenacity that made them fearless and it is no accident that so many became authors of influential, best-selling books.

R
OBERT
L. B
ERNSTEIN
, the chief executive of Random House for more than a quarter century, guided one of the nation's premier publishing houses. Bob was personally responsible for many books of political dissent and argument that challenged tyranny around the globe. He is also the founder and longtime chair of Human Rights Watch, one of the most respected human rights organizations in the world.

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For fifty years, the banner of Public Affairs Press was carried by its owner Morris B. Schnapper, who published Gandhi, Nasser, Toynbee, Truman, and about 1,500 other authors. In 1983, Schnapper was described by
The Washington Post
as “a redoubtable gadfly.” His legacy will endure in the books to come.

Peter Osnos,
Founder and Editor-at-Large