
The Remains of The Daily
One News Corp. property that has flown under the radar throughout the company’s recent melodramas is The Daily—the tablet newspaper launched to great fanfare in the basement of the Guggenheim in February.
Nobody thinks the staff at the iPad app is doing any phone-hacking. They haven’t broken enough scoops to raise that kind of suspicion.
But Jesse Angelo, editor of The Daily, might as well be part of the Murdoch family. Having grown up in the newsrooms of The Sun, The Daily Telegraph, and New York Post, he was best man at James Murdoch’s wedding and in March signed the papers on an Upper East Side townhouse believed to be intended for James, who before the scandal was planning a move to New York. Read More