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Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:
The Never-Ending Story: News of the World's Andy Coulson Condoned Police Payoffs — Andy Coulson, who edited Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid from 2003 to 2006, condoned payments from members of his staff at the News of the World to Scotland Yard, according to e-mails the company has handed over to the police.
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New York Magazine and BBC
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Nick Davies / Guardian:
Phone hacking: Glenn Mulcaire blames ‘relentless pressure’ by NoW for actions — Private investigator says sorry for hurt and upset caused while under a constant demand for results from newspaper — The private investigator at the centre of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal …
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Telegraph, CJR, The Wire, PoliticsHome, Wall Street Journal, Crikey, Reuters, @sarahw, PC Magazine, @jayrosen_nyu, CNET News, Adweek, The Atlantic Wire, themediablog.typepad.com and Guardian
Kevin Cochrane / Media Week:
Ford pulls News of the World advertising following Milly Dowler allegations — Car marque Ford is to suspend all advertising activity in the News of the World until parent company News International completes a full investigation of the Milly Dowler phone-hacking allegations.
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Press Gazette, Guardian, Guardian, Slate, NPR and The New Yorker Blog
BBC:
Police to meet NoW executives over Milly hacking claims
Police to meet NoW executives over Milly hacking claims
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Poynter, BBC, Media & Entertainment, Guardian, Mixed Media, Telegraph, The Atlantic Wire, CJR, Adweek, The Huffington Post, Media Matters for America, Press Gazette, This Is London, The Wall Blog, Guardian, New York Times, Sky News, Press Association, Daily Express, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, ShortFormBlog, Mashable!, @sarahlellison, New York Magazine, The Wire, mocoNews, National Review, Boing Boing, Mediaite, The Lede, http://www.Stinkyjournalism …, @rafat, Wall Street Journal, On Media's Blog, Associated Press, George Brock, Guardian, Mirror.co.uk, Sky News, the Econsultancy blog, The Independent, Daily Mail, Editor's Blog, The First Post, New York Times, FleetStreetBlues and Gawker
Reuters:
DSK accuser sues NY Post for “prostitute” report — (Reuters) - The hotel maid who accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault sued the New York Post and four of its reporters for libel on Tuesday for reporting that she was a prostitute.
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The Atlantic Wire, Media & Entertainment, Forbes.com, Poynter, Runnin' Scared, Gawker, The Daily Beast, Gothamist, Mediaite, Reuters, Boing Boing, FishbowlNY, New York Magazine and Mogulite
New York Times:
Pakistan's Spies Tied to Slaying of a Journalist — ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Obama administration officials believe that Pakistan's powerful spy agency ordered the killing of a Pakistani journalist who had written scathing reports about the infiltration of militants in the country's military, according to American officials.
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
What Google+ adds to news — To paraphrase Mark Zuckerberg, it is too soon to know what Google+ is. But I've been trying to imagine how it will and won't be useful to news. You should add rock salt to anything I say, as I thought Google Wave would be an important journalistic tool.
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Search Engine Land, The Not-So Private Parts, Future of Journalism, eMedia Vitals and ReadWriteWeb
Steve Myers / Poynter:
How news sites could improve accountability by tracking story changes, but probably won't — Web publishing has spawned a parlor game for media reporters, partisan bloggers and others who closely follow the news: finding stuff that's been deleted or changed on news sites and figuring out why.
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Future of Journalism, MediaPost and Future Journalism Project
John Koblin / WWD:
Memo Pad: Bieber's Vanity Fair Cover Bombs... New Men's Style Quarterly... BIEBER BOMBS: Note to magazine editors: Think twice before booking Justin Bieber. — Vanity Fair's February Bieber cover is on track to become the worst-selling issue for the Condé Nast monthly in 12 years …
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GalleyCat, The Huffington Post, The Atlantic Wire and Fashionista
Alex Howard / O'Reilly Radar:
Data journalism, data tools, and the newsroom stack — MIT's recent Civic Media Conference and the latest batch of Knight News Challenge winners made one reality crystal clear: as a new era of technology-fueled transparency, innovation and open government dawns, it won't depend on any single CIO or federal program.
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NetNewsCheck Latest and MediaShift Idea Lab
Alertbox:
Why WSJ Mobile App Gets ** Customer Reviews … The Wall Street Journal's iPhone app had just 2 stars in Apple's App Store at the time of this writing. Averaged across 68,418 consumer reviews, the rating is not just a reflection of a few irate users. — As a rough estimate …
Kunur Patel / AdAge:
When's Prime Time in Mobile? Same as TV — Mobile Web and App Usage Starts to Peak at 7 p.m., Keeps Up Through the Night — Prime time in mobile is shaping up to look a lot like TV: Working stiffs turn to their phones after they've logged off their computers for the day and plopped down on the couch at home.
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Lost Remote
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
‘Vogue’ Reigns on Newsstand — It's no secret that magazines' newsstand sales have been dismal. But Anna Wintour's Vogue has been bucking the trend, and not by a little. — For the first five months of the year, newsstand sales for the Condé Nast title have averaged 370,000 …
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The Wire and FishbowlNY
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Condé Nast's Scott Dadich on reinventing mags for the iPad and why partnering with Apple matters — As the man tasked with giving new life to magazines on new platforms for Condé Nast, Scott Dadich says there are some things, old-school things, that don't change whether you're dealing with print or tablets.
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NetNewsCheck Latest
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Netflix to launch service in Latin America — Netflix, the streaming video service based in Los Gatos, California is going to launch its service in 43 countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean later this year. Netflix had launched the service in Canada last year and it is part of company's plans to expand internationally.
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Media Money …, Home Media Magazine, PR Newswire, The Official Netflix Blog, paidContent, rbr.com, MediaPost, CNET News, Media Decoder, AllThingsD, PC Magazine, Multichannel, Techland, Company Town, Softpedia News, ZDNet, Online Video News, The Wrap, Electronista, Engadget and Globe and Mail, more at Techmeme »
Brett Pulley / Bloomberg:
Sun Valley Moguls Shift From Acquisitions to Sales to Refine Media Models — Media executives gather at Allen & Co.'s Sun Valley conference this week looking to shed assets such as the Hulu LLC video website and G4 game channel amid a declining global stock market and slowing economic growth.
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Big Media Brace for Clouds As They Meet in Sun Valley
Big Media Brace for Clouds As They Meet in Sun Valley
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Company Town