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Journalism Ethics

WTTW News | July 19, 2011, 7:00 pm

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch testified at a hearing today in Britain about the phone hacking scandal that shut down his News of the World tabloid and rocked his publishing empire. We look at the privacy, media and hacking issues surrounding the scandal.

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