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Jack Shafer / Slate:
Rupert Murdoch can't escape his nemesis, Nick Davies of the Guardian. — If Rupert Murdoch could be slain by a mere scandal, he would have been embalmed and entombed long ago. The has successfully swept away every scandal—major and minor—he has ever faced because of his special skill at normalizing his malefactions.
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Gawker, Guardian, CJR, The Independent and Big News Network.com
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The Independent:
Wapping in turmoil as hacking saga hits Murdoch where it hurts — Oliver Wright and Ian Burrell test the mood in News International's London fortress — Tuesday is normally a quiet day for reporters and editors of the News of the World. Because the paper comes out on a Sunday …
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The Independent, Guardian and The Huffington Post
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.
Kevin Cochrane / Media Week:
Ford pulls News of the World advertising following Milly Dowler allegations
Discussion:
Guardian, Guardian, Press Gazette, NPR and The New Yorker Blog
Nick Davies / Guardian:
Phone hacking: Glenn Mulcaire blames ‘relentless pressure’ by NoW for actions
BBC:
Police to meet NoW executives over Milly hacking claims
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Mixed Media, Adweek, Guardian, TheMediaBriefing, Poynter, Media & Entertainment, BBC, Guardian, Telegraph, This Is London, The Atlantic Wire, CJR, Press Gazette, New York Times, National Review, @rafat, @sarahlellison, Press Association, ShortFormBlog, Sky News, Media Matters for America, Boing Boing, Mashable!, New York Magazine, Mediaite, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, mocoNews, Guardian, http://www.Stinkyjournalism …, Mirror.co.uk, Sky News, The Lede, The Wire, On Media's Blog, George Brock, The Wall Blog and The Independent
Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Media moguls focus on digital dollars at Sun Valley — (Reuters) - Media and technology moguls gather in Idaho this week to once more debate a shift to a digital world, but the talk this year will finally focus on how to make money off it. — Unlike in years past, this year's attendees …
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Future of Journalism
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Rebecca Meany / mtexpress.com:
Valley greets, but doesn't meet, heavy hitters — Allen & Co. attendees come to Sun Valley for annual retreat, possible business deals — Telltale signs of the much-discussed but always secretive Allen & Co. conference create tantalizing images of business deals taking place in Sun Valley.
Brett Pulley / Bloomberg:
Sun Valley Moguls Shift From Acquisitions to Sales to Refine Media Models
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Media Money …, AllThingsD, New York Post, mtexpress.com, CNBC, The Wire, New York Post and Wall Street Journal
Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer:
Does Turnover Signal Tumult at The Huffington Post Business Desk? — Since merging with AOL, the Huffington Post has been on an ostentatious hiring spree, luring editors away from The New York Times with big paychecks and grabbing young reporters while the ink on their diplomas is still wet.
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Poynter, paidContent, AllThingsD, Street Fight, Press Gazette, Future of Journalism and Media News
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.
Florence Pichon / Editors Weblog:
Press releases in journalism: friend or foe? — These days, PR is everything. — Companies, governments, and organizations use press releases to communicate with the media. By releasing their own official version of events, a press release helps companies maintain an image for the general public and …
Discussion:
eMedia Vitals and Future of Journalism
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Seeking Alpha On Track To Pay Its Bloggers $1.2 Million This Year — Financial analysis and earnings transcription site Seeking Alpha expects to pay its “premium bloggers” a collective $1.2 million by the end of this year, says CEO David Jackson. While most of the site's 4,000 contributors write …
Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
NY Times: No Longer A Sell, Says UBS; Paywall Brightens — Prospects for The New York Times's (NYT) electronic paywall, introduced in May, are looking better, writes UBS's Jon Janedis, who today raised his rating on Times shares to Neutral from Sell, and raised his price target to $9 from $7.
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.
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 …
Discussion:
eMedia Vitals
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.
Discussion:
Mediamind, Future of Journalism and Lost Remote
Emily Bell / CJR:
Signal and Noise — Trying to follow global news in America, a newcomer finds that something is missing — If you wished to see a vivid illustration of how the broadcast news media in the US are perceived in 2011, you could do worse than watch President Obama tell jokes.
Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer:
The Great Glossy Sell-Out — Jacket by General Pants, via Svpply — It was Fourth of July weekend and The Observer didn't have a denim jacket. This situation became especially irksome when, standing in line at Duane Reade, we skimmed the August issue of Glamour. It was a denim-themed issue.
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