Aaron Sorkin on the multi-million dollar reshoots of the first few episodes of Season Two: “I doubt HBO’s going to be happy with my telling you this, but I got off to a false start with Season Two. With my hat in my hand, I went to HBO and said, ‘Would it be all right if I started again? I know it’s going to cost time and it’s going to cost a lot of money.’ Other networks would have said no.”

That email-bulletined excerpt and a whole lot more can be found in a cover story by senior TV writer Lacey Rose for the June 28 edition of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. The article also runs down the list of The Newsroom Season Two consultants, a group that includes CNN anchor Ashleigh Banfield, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews and former TIME editor Jim Kelly.

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The $50,000 gift will go towards a new department of the school named after Sunday Times foreign correspondent Marie Colvin, who was killed in Syria in February, 2012. From the official announcement:

Mr. Murdoch’s donation will help to expand the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting’s overseas program, Journalism Without Walls, which has already sent student journalists to Russia, Cuba, China and Kenya.

“Marie was an outstanding foreign correspondent who risked her life to tell Sunday Times readers what was really going on in war zones across the globe,” said Mr. Murdoch. “She stood in the finest tradition of war reporters and News Corp.’s donation will help train the next generation so they too can bear witness.”

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David DeVoe

Succeeding DeVoe is John Nallen, who will be named senior executive VP and CFO of 21st Century Fox, the entertainment side of the News Corp. split. Nallen has been with News Corp. for 18 years. His appointment will be effective July 1 and he’ll report to Chase Carey and Rupert Murdoch.

In a statement, Murdoch said of DeVoe, “I would like to express my profound gratitude to Dave for his enormous contributions to News Corp. over nearly three decades in which he has played a pivotal role in building the Company into a global leader. He is a world-class executive whose stellar financial stewardship can be credited for the enviable financial position we’re in at this exciting time in the company’s evolution.”

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Rupert Murdoch is calling it quits with his wife of 14 years, Wendi Deng. According to Deadline, Murdoch filed for divorce this morning in New York’s Supreme Court.

Murdoch and Deng met in 1997 and married in 1999, just weeks after his divorice with Anna Maria Torv Murdoch Mann was finalized. We have two questions:

1) Is a new, future ex Mrs. Murdoch just around the corner?

2) Without Deng, who will protect Murdoch from pie attacks?

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Will you accept a friend request from Rupert Murdoch? If you’re lucky, you’ll be asking yourself that when WSJ Profile, News Corp.’s LinkedIn competitor, debuts. As you can see from the picture, WSJ Profile will be almost identical to LinkedIn in what it offers. The Next Web reports that WSJ Profile is expected to launch in the next few weeks.

Lex Fenwick, CEO of Dow Jones, considers WSJ Profile a smart way to keep people glued to the Wall Street Journal. “We will be able to build a network of like-minded people around the world, into a community,” he said.

We agree that WSJ Profile is a good idea, but all we want to know is if it’s a blingee free zone or not.

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Aside from the official date, the other thing to note is that there’s more information about the boards of each company. Forbes reports that Rupert Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch and James Murdoch will have seats on both. News Corp.’s board will also feature John Elkann (former Fiat chairman); Ana Paula Pessoa (partner at Brunswick Group, a PR firm); and Masroor Siddiqui (an investor). At 21st Century Fox there’ll be Delphine Arnault (deputy general manager at Christian Dior); Jacques Nasser (former Ford CEO); and Robert Silberman (executive chairman at Strayer Education).

Now, who wants to have a News Corp. Split Party on the 28th? We’re thinking jello shooters and an ice sculpture of Rupert giving a thumbs up. We’re flexible though.

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Former Ms. Magazine Editor Mary Thom Dead at 68 (AP / Huffington Post)
Prominent feminist Mary Thom, a writer and former editor of Ms. magazine who also was an avid motorcyclist, crashed while riding on a highway and was killed, her nephew said Saturday. She was 68. NYT Thom joined Ms. magazine in 1972 as an editor, rising to become executive editor in 1990. She was known as a journalistic virtuoso who shaped the writing of many of the feminist movement’s luminaries, including Gloria Steinem.  Ms. “We who are Mary’s friends and family haven’t absorbed her loss yet; it’s too sudden,” said Women’s Media Center co-founders Robin Morgan, Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda in a statement over the weekend. “Ms. magazine, the Women’s Media Center, the women’s movement and American journalism have suffered an enormous blow. Mary was and will always be our moral compass and steady heart.” FishbowlNY Thom lived for decades in New York City and served as an editor for Ms. for nearly 20 years before leaving the feminist magazine in 1992. The glossy, which began as an insert in New York magazine, became a feminist powerhouse read in the 1970s but struggled to leverage commercial success with its ideological voice. continued…

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To make matters even sweeter for Murdoch, the payment is better than last year’s, when he raked in $24 million. The man is doing well. So what’s on Murdoch’s mind lately? Oh, the usual. Bashing The New York Times:

NYT op-Ed today argues. US inhospitality to teenage migrants led to Boston terror attack.Give us a break!And they charge $2.00!

— Rupert Murdoch(@rupertmurdoch) April 24, 2013

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“Let’s Play Spot the Non-Whites Around Rupert Murdoch!”

But Gawker’s fierce commenters turned the gun on Nick Denton‘s flagship site.

“Gawker media is not exactly a Rainbow,” wrote one under the nom-de-commentaire, birthdeath. “Pot, meet kettle.”

“No, not a rainbow. But for what it’s worth and since you asked, 1/3 of our masthead (at this site, not company-wide) is not white,” Cook replied.

Wrote another commenter: “I’m sure the difficulty in having more people of color at sites like Buzzfeed and Gawker is that they only want to pay people under 40,000 a year….and they want them to live in NYC and be super trendy etc. So who can afford to live like that? Trust-fund, predominately white, babies of course. See: Lena Dunham’s character in ‘Girls.’”

So, was Cook race-baiting for clicks, here? Or was he making a fair observation? Tell us in the comments below.

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A group of shareholders, suing on behalf of the company, settled a class suit filed in Delaware two years ago claimed the board failed to prevent the phone-hacking scandal in the U.K. and negotiate a fair price for the acquisition of Shine Group, a TV production firm owned by the boss’s daughter, Elisabeth Murdoch.

The board put in place new rules, appeasing the plaintiffs, last year.

News Corp. will recover $139 million in insurance proceeds.

“We are pleased to have resolved this matter,” News Corp. said in a statement on Monday. “The agreement reflects the important steps News Corporation has taken over the last year to strengthen our corporate governance and compliance structure and we have committed to building on those efforts going forward.”

The News of the World tabloid, the main antagonist in the phone-hacking debacle, was shuttered in July 2011, months after Murdoch bought Shine in an all-stock deal worth about $675 million.

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Rupert Murdoch dragged a wrinkled finger across his iPad yesterday, scanning Twitter to see who was mentioning him. And that’s when he saw it, the tweet and paired blog post that made his eyes widen and his cheeks flush. He mouthed a breathy “no,” as he read it.

The guys from FishbowlNY had skewered him, and his beloved New York Post tabloid, again.

The leather desk chair creaked as he sat back, sighing exasperatedly. He placed the iPad on his mahogany desk. Unsure if he was angry, or just embarrassed, he thought about it. Maybe I’ll buy Mediabistro and just put those hacks out of the job, he thought. Or maybe I’ll sue them for libel, he thought, but quickly brushed off the idea, because he knows he doesn’t need any more legal woes. The phone hacking thing was enough. No need to drag some brazen bastards before a judge and jury.

He scratched his forehead, the creased 82-year-old skin molding like Silly Putty ™ in his finger tips.

Only one thing to do, he thought. I’ve got to launch a stellar defense of my newspaper, my New York Post, my baby.

“Wendi,” he called across the room to his wife, Wendi Deng, who was catching her breath after verbally demolishing the new maid for breathing too loud or something like that. “Can you look over my shoulder on this one? I want to make sure I get it just right — so all the world’s media gazers recant their criticisms of the Post.”

“Sure,” she said, and cracked her knuckles.

Old Rupe started tapping away at the screen.

“Yeah, yeah, that’s perfect, darling,” Wendi said. “This will probably boost the Post‘s subscription sales! You’re so smart.”

Rupert smiled. He clicked send. And the rest of us got this:

All NYPost pics were those distributed by FBI.And instantly withdrawn when FBI changed directions.

— Rupert Murdoch(@rupertmurdoch) April 20, 2013

So, on behalf of my co-editor Chris O’Shea and the rest of FishbowlNY, you’re welcome.

Editor’s note: This is more satire. Duh.

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In the days following a bombing in Boston that left three dead and droves maimed, the stoic little paper, with its boringly staid headlines and cover art, churned out scoops that were so true the rest of the media just didn’t even get it. Like, those fools at the New York Times and the chumps that run FishbowlNY were saying three people were dead when, like, it was obviously 12. And then they put a guy on the cover of the paper who was so suspiciously guilty, he didn’t even know it!

See, the Post reports on things. Lots of them.

The octogenarian media mogul must have been so proud. Prouder than he was when his smiling mug appeared on the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek, which called him an “old fox,” which is a name he likes. After all, he named his television network after that animal.

But for some reason, he stayed mum on Twitter. No praise for the Post‘s intrepid reporters. No in-your-face bragging to competitors like the New York Daily News.

Just this:

Why does British establishment protect famous alleged BBC paedophiles while demonising popular journalists.Toffs for toffs, hell to public

— Rupert Murdoch(@rupertmurdoch) April 19, 2013

The Huffington Post was as confused as we were.

Editor’s Note: This is satire, as copied from my colleague, senior editor Chris O’Shea. Because it’s actually that absurd.

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The Wall Street Journal hasn’t won a Pulitzer Prize for its news reporting since 2007. It wasn’t even nominated this year. And a new chart from the Columbia Journalism Review may highlight a reason why.

Since News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch bought the United States’ largest newspaper by circulation six years ago, there has been a steady decline in the long-form journalism that once distinguished the business world’s paper of record.

CJR isn’t the first to notice this. Back in 2011, amid the calamity of News Corp.’s phone-hacking scandal in the U.K., New York Times op-ed columnist Joe Nocera declared the “Fox-ification” of the paper, noting that Murdoch’s Journal was marked by “shorter articles, less depth, an increased emphasis on politics and, weirdly, sometimes surprisingly unsophisticated coverage of business.”

While some of his criticism seems unwarranted — and likely fueled by the chaotic speed with which more and more phone-hacking accusations splashed onto front pages across the English speaking work — the “shorter articles, less depth” argument seems to hold true.

The Journal defended itself with this public statement after CJR‘s Dean Starkman published the chart:

The number of words in an article has never been the barometer by which the quality of a publication or its value to readers should be measured. Every article is reported with unique facts and anecdotes that are needed to best tell the story. We consider those factors, while respecting our readers’ busy lives, when determining the length of an article. Our very strong circulation numbers suggest that readers think we’re doing a good job.

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