Video Exclusive: 'War at the Wall Street Journal' Author Sarah Ellison on the Mind of Murdoch

In a 2010 interview, long before phone hacking at News of the World had blown up into a full-fledged scandal, journalist Sarah Ellison talked to director Andrew Rossi and producer Kate Novack, the filmmakers responsible for Page One: Inside the New York Times.

In the clip below, Ellison details News Corp. head Rupert Murdoch's brand of "predatory" competitiveness, his "spiritual mesh" with Margaret Thatcher, and why the Bancroft family, after having owned The Wall Street Journal for 105 years, allowed Murdoch to add the paper to his media empire.

Sarah Ellison worked for 10 years as a reporter at The Wall Street Journal. Her War at the Wall Street Journal: Inside the Struggle to Control an American Business Empire (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010) was acclaimed as "a definitive, indeed cinematic, account of News Corporation's conquest and occupation of this venerable business publication."

Participant Media—TakePart's parent company—acquired "Page One: Inside The New York Times" at the Sundance Film Festival and released the film theatrically with Magnolia Pictures.