Mediagazer: For Years, the Tabloids' Sting Kept British Politicians in Line (Sarah Lyall/New York Times)

5:25 PM ET, July 10, 2011

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For Years, the Tabloids' Sting Kept British Politicians in Line — LONDON — In 2004, Clare Short, a Labour member of Parliament, learned what could happen to British politicians who criticized the country's unforgiving tabloids. At a lunch in Westminster, Ms. Short mentioned in passing …

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Felix Salmon:

What damage could Rebekah Brooks do to News Corp? — The implosion of the News of the World, and of News Corp's bluster surrounding hacking and bribery allegations, comes less than a week after the Bribery Act of 2010 finally became law in the UK. The Bribery Act had an unbelievably long gestation …

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Robert Peston / BBC:

News International found ‘smoking gun’ e-mails in 2007 — News International found e-mails in 2007 that appeared to indicate that payments were being made to the police for information, although this evidence of alleged criminal behaviour was not handed to the Metropolitan Police for investigation until 20 June of this year.

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News of the World:

We recorded history and we've made history — “IT is Sunday afternoon, preferably before the war. The wife is already asleep in the armchair, and the children have been sent out for a nice long walk. You put your feet up on the sofa, settle your spectacles on your nose and open the News of the World.”

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Telegraph:

James Murdoch ‘could face prosecution’ over his role in phone hacking scandal — James Murdoch, the chairman of News International, could be prosecuted over the telephone hacking scandal, a former home secretary said yesterday. — David Cameron also piled the pressure on Mr Murdoch …

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Associated Press:

Murdoch backs UK news operation CEO amid scandal … SUN VALLEY, Idaho (AP) — Rupert Murdoch has expressed his full support for the head of his U.K. newspaper division amid continuing fallout from an expanding phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World.

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Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:
Catastrophic ‘News of the World’: Some salvage jobs are impossible, even for Rupert Murdoch

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Clay Shirky:

Why We Need the New News Environment to be Chaotic — The business environment for newspapers continues to be grim. Pew recently reported that advertising revenue rebounded in 2010 for all forms of media, except newspapers. * This might just be a matter of transitioning from print …

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Raf Sanchez / Telegraph:

News of the World final crossword has a message for ‘catastrophe’ Rebekah Brooks — Departing staff at the News of the World appear to have sent a parting message of disgust to former editor Rebekah Brooks in the crossword of the paper's final edition. — Despite orders allegedly given …

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Katherine Rushton / Telegraph:

‘Former News of the World journalists’ silenced on Twitter — Twitter accounts purporting to be held by former News of the World journalists went silent today and the majority of their tweets were deleted. — Twitter users purporting to be former News of the World journalists are falling silent

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Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:UK:

Another Digital Twist to the NWS Drama: A Tell-All Blog By Ex-NOTW Journos — News International is taking down its online paywall for the last edition of The News of the World on Sunday, July 10. But the scandal-ridden newspaper might just get scooped by one of its own.

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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:

Twitter Curation Grows Up: Storify Becomes Blog & SEO Friendly — Thirteen years ago this spring, Dave Winer's UserLand Software launched a technical protocol that made it easy to publish content from one Web page onto another. (Winer was the inspiration for ReadWriteWeb and countless other blogs.)

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Courtney Boyd Myers / The Next Web:

Google+ accounted for 35% of Tweeted news links last week — The Twitterverse was in a flurry this week, as early adopters and tech enthusiasts excitedly dissected Google's brand new social network, Google+. — According to the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism's …

Discussion: Future of Journalism, SocialTimes.com and L.A. Times Tech Blog