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The Guardian's relentless phone hacking reporter Nick Davies landed in New York on Monday evening to investigate the possibility that the Rupert Murdoch's empire committed similar crimes in the United States. Adweek's Lucia Moss reports, "[Davies will] be there until Friday, and then he's going to Los Angeles in pursuit of hacking-type practices that might have been carried out on U.S. soil by Murdoch’s U.S. reporters, by his U.K. reporters working in the U.S., or by private detectives hired by News Corp."

Davies arrival comes just three days after News Corp. instructed its employees at the New York Post "to preserve and maintain all documents and information that are related in any way" to phone hacking or paying officials. (And that's just one of many legal headaches the company faces in the U.S.) Davies tweeted when he touched down: