Daily Bugle The adventures of the staff of the newspaper beyond Peter Parker have been depicted in two series, "Daily Bugle" and "The Pulse". After Jameson suffered a near-fatal heart attack, his wife sold the "Bugle" to rival newspaper man Dexter Bennett, who changed the name to The DB (either standing for Dexter Bennett or "Daily Bugle"), and transformed it into a scandal sheet. Since after "Brand New Day" no one knows the secret identity of Spider-Man anymore, the animosity between Jameson and Parker is retconned as a simple financial question, with Jameson's heart attack coming right after a monetary request from
The Bugle was released on 14 October 2007. New episodes of the podcast were generally recorded and published on Fridays with related material appearing on its official website. At its launch, "The Bugle" was distributed by TimesOnline, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News International. During the News International phone hacking scandal of 2011, "The Bugle" satirised its parent company in a manner which the New York Times characterized as "blistering" in an article published 15 August. Over the course of a few weekly episodes prior to the New York Times' article, Zaltzman and Oliver had gone "straight for the jugular" regarding