Media Unmade – Chapter Three: Phone Hacking, Paywalls and Grin-F*cks

Here comes the third chapter of the audio version of my book Media Unmade, covering the history of Australian media’s most disruptive decade. It’s published by Hardie Grant. If you’d like to purchase a copy of the text version, you can do so online, and in bookstores.

In this chapter, I chronicle News Corp at its lowest ebb, including the Melbourne Storm cheating scandal, former Herald Sun editor Bruce Guthrie’s lawsuit and the News of the World phone hacking scandal.

The chapter also covers the company’s early moves into paywalls for The Australian, its failed stewardship of MySpace, and the arrival of Kim Williams, with his declaration that “the order of the tummy compass” was over.

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