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Guardian:
News International papers targeted Gordon Brown — Newspapers obtained information from the former prime minister's bank account, legal file and family medical records — Journalists from across News International repeatedly targeted the former prime minister Gordon Brown …
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Adweek, Press Gazette, The Independent, paidContent, This Is London, New York Times, BBC, FleetStreetBlues, The Lede, Jon Slattery, CREW, The Wire, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Mirror.co.uk, Tom Watson, Erik Wemple, FP Passport, Bloomberg, AlterNet.org, The First Post, News: News blog, The Huffington Post, Poynter, The New Yorker Blog, Crikey, The Staggers, Economist, The Daily Dish, New Jersey Online, CJR, MediaFile, Future of Journalism, The Raw Story, Agence France Presse, Runnin' Scared, Liberal Conspiracy, Media & Entertainment, American Journalism Review, Political Scrapbook, Sky News, Gawker, New York Magazine, Guy Fawkes' blog, Gothamist, On Media's Blog and Mother Jones
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New York Times:
British Tabloid Sought Phone Data of Investigators — LONDON — Shortly after Scotland Yard began its initial criminal inquiry of phone hacking by The News of the World in 2006, five senior police investigators discovered that their own cellphone messages had been targeted by the tabloid and had most likely been listened to.
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Press Gazette, Guardian, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, FP Passport, The Staggers and The Wire
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
In Defense of Murdoch — NEW YORK — Fair warning: This column is a defense of Rupert Murdoch. If you add everything up, he's been good for newspapers over the past several decades, keeping them alive and vigorous and noisy and relevant. Without him, the British newspaper industry might have disappeared entirely.
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NPR
New York Times:
News Corporation Moves to Delay BSkyB Deal to Avoid Its Collapse — LONDON — Battered by allegations of phone hacking by the now-shuttered News of the World, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation on Monday effectively delayed government action on its proposed takeover of the satellite broadcast …
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Poynter
Bloomberg:
News Corp.'s Lost $7B Shows Investor Concern — News Corp. (NWSA)'s loss of $7 billion in market value over four trading days shows investor concerns that a probe into alleged phone hacking by journalists at one London newspaper could have a broader impact on the company.
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Forbes.com
Aaron Elstein / Crain's New York Business:
News Corp.'s board knows something about hacks — At least one of News Corp.'s board members can well understand what victims of phone-hacking are going through. — In 2006, when Thomas Perkins served on the board of Hewlett-Packard, his residential phone records were obtained …
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The New York Observer, Reuters, Guardian, Adweek, Company Town and The Wire
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
The Twisted Logic of Murdoch's Pivot on BSkyB Deal
The Twisted Logic of Murdoch's Pivot on BSkyB Deal
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mediabistro.com, News Corporation, Guardian, Forbes.com, AllThingsD, The Wire, Wall Street Journal, Multichannel and Adweek
Andrew Essex / News Desk:
James Murdoch, Then and Now — James Murdoch, the younger son …
James Murdoch, Then and Now — James Murdoch, the younger son …
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Guardian, Adweek, Forbes.com and The Wire
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
News Corp. Shareholders in Class Action Over Hacking
News Corp. Shareholders in Class Action Over Hacking
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Guardian, Multichannel, Forbes.com, paidContent:UK, New York Magazine, Future of Journalism and Deadline.com
Simon Dumenco / AdAge:
Life After Rupert's Reign: What Will Happen in a Post-Murdoch World?
Life After Rupert's Reign: What Will Happen in a Post-Murdoch World?
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Guardian, Adweek, Company Town, Telegraph, Harper's, The New Yorker Blog, paidContent, Agence France Presse, Rolling Stone, mediabistro.com, The Wrap, Media Matters for America, On Media's Blog, Erik Wemple, Press Gazette, Newspaper Death Watch, The Independent, The Wire, Broadcasting & Cable, Washington Post, New York Times, New York Times, BBC, BBC and Globe and Mail
Nick Davies / Guardian:
Charles and Camilla warned over hacking
Charles and Camilla warned over hacking
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BBC, Mirror.co.uk, The Huffington Post and Adweek
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
HuffPo Fires Writer for Doing ‘What We Were Taught and Told to Do’ — The Huffington Post indefinitely suspended a young blogger today for rewriting too much of someone's news article. This is pretty ridiculous, given HuffPo's systematic, officially-sanctioned approach to rewriting too much of people's news articles.
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Poynter
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Steve Myers / Poynter:
Huffington Post suspends writer, apologizes for over-aggregated post — The Huffington Post has suspended Amy Lee, who wrote a summary of an Ad Age post that Simon Dumenco complained was unethical and brought just 57 page views to AdAge.com. Huffington Post Executive Business Editor Peter Goodman apologized …
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eMedia Vitals, Future of Journalism, FishbowlNY, LA Observed and Editors Weblog
Simon Dumenco / AdAge:
What It's Like to Get Used and Abused by The Huffington Post
What It's Like to Get Used and Abused by The Huffington Post
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The Awl, NetNewsCheck Latest, Poynter, Strange Attractor, FishbowlNY, paidContent, WebProNews and eMedia Vitals
Economist:
Opening statements — There is no question that the internet is transforming the news industry, just as it has reshaped so many other industries. And, as in those other cases, the internet's impact has both positive and negative aspects. Does this, on balance, strengthen or weaken the news system?
David Kaplan / paidContent:
PIB: Magazine Ad Pages Rise A Bit, As Food Category Starts To Stumble — By and large, consumer magazine ad pages have been trending pretty well the past year, ekeing out slim gains amid advertisers' continued migration from print to digital. But as the latest Publishers Information Bureau figures …
Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:UK:
Publisher Penguin Waddles Into Social Media Experiment With Peer Index — A little social media experiment is underway at the publishers Hamish Hamilton/Penguin UK: the publisher has tied up with the social media site PeerIndex to try out a new way of promoting its books.
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Forbes.com
Erik Wemple:
New York Post prostitution story gets shakier — The New York Post's “scoop” on Dominique Strauss Kahn's accuser is getting fishier, to the extent that's possible. The paper appears to have had documentation challenging the reliability of its only source in a story alleging that the accuser had worked as a prostitute.
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Salon and New York Magazine
R. Jai Krishna / Wall Street Journal:
HT Media Scouting For Hindi, Regional Language Newspapers — NEW DELHI — HT Media Ltd. is looking to expand its print, radio and online businesses through acquisitions and tie-ups, as it seeks to benefit from growing demand for information and entertainment in a robust economy.
Kai Nagata:
Why I quit my job: — Until Thursday, I was CTV's Quebec City Bureau Chief, based at the National Assembly, mostly covering politics. It's a fascinating beat - the most interesting provincial legislature in Canada, and the stories coming out of there lately have been huge.
Discussion:
National Review and THE PLANET GUYS
Terry Heaton / Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog:
We've got to do something about pre-rolls — Visual computing expert Mike Sullivan published a piece last week through MediaPost that ought to get every TV executive's attention. “Why Now Is The Time To Shift TV Ad Dollars To Online Video” is a serious look at the burgeoning market …