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Simon Dumenco / AdAge:
Life After Rupert's Reign: What Will Happen in a Post-Murdoch World? — With the Closure of the News of the World, the Rule of One of the Most Powerful Media Moguls of All Time Has Officially Begun to Wind Down — With Sunday's closure of News Corp.'s 168-year-old News of the World …
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Paul Mason / BBC:
Murdoch: the network defeats the hierarchy — Rupert Murdoch has dispensed power, terrorized politicians and shaped politics — The Murdoch empire fractured, a Conservative prime minister attracting bets on his resignation, the Metropolitan Police on the edge of yet another existential crisis …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
British tabloid tactics are rampant in American journalism, too — It takes some doing to get an entire country up in arms about media misconduct, but News of the World rose to the occasion. — By hacking into the phones of terror victims and a missing 13-year-old girl later found murdered …
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FishbowlDC and CJR
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
News Corp. Shareholders in Class Action Over Hacking — Rupert Murdoch standing by embattled News International CEO Rebekah Brooks. Image by AFP/Getty Images via @daylife — As if Rupert Murdoch didn't already have enough of a legal/financial/public relational disaster on his hands …
Nick Davies / Guardian:
Charles and Camilla warned over hacking — Palace confirms police recently approached couple to warn them they were likely targets of News of the World private investigator — Police have warned Buckingham Palace that they have found evidence that the Prince of Wales and the Duchess …
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BBC, Adweek and The Huffington Post
David Carr / New York Times:
A Tabloid Shame, Exposed by Earnest Rivals — The phone-hacking scandal that is mushrooming in Britain, with arrests, skullduggery and influence peddling, would be a delicious story for The News of the World if it were not about the newspaper itself. Instead, the hunter became the hunted …
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Mirror.co.uk, The Daily Beast, Poynter, Guardian, The Corsair and The Wire
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Huffington Post suspends writer, apologizes for over-aggregated post — The Huffington Post has suspended Amy Lee, who wrote a thorough summary of an Ad Age post that Simon Dumenco complained was unethical and brought just 57 page views to AdAge.com, and apologized for the …
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LA Observed and Editors Weblog
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Simon Dumenco / AdAge:
What It's Like to Get Used and Abused by The Huffington Post — The Blog Queen Defends Her Aggregation Practices by Saying She Drives Traffic. Oh, Really? — One of the great and pressing questions of the post-blog age is: What constitutes unfair — unethical — aggregation?
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paidContent, Poynter, FishbowlNY and eMedia Vitals
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.
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National Review and THE PLANET GUYS
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Netflix Isn't Kicking Tires at Hulu — The sale of video site Hulu LLC is entering its next phase. — Initial presentations to potential suitors mostly wrapped up last week, according to people familiar with the matter. Next, interested bidders will comb through the business in greater detail …
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Fast Company, NetNewsCheck Latest, PC Magazine, Online Video News, Company Town, GigaOM and Electronista, more at Techmeme »
Chris Rovzar / New York Magazine:
Newsweek.com Will Cease to Exist on July 19 — Right now if you go to newsweek.com, you'll see a basic magazine website, updated with content from the print version of the mag and a top navigation bar that directs you to content on its sister site, dailybeast.com.
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FishbowlNY
Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
An iPad App for Cosmo Guys — Cosmopolitan offers the answers to a lot of crucial questions. Should you get back with your ex? How do you make your pony tail sexy? Are those the right sunglasses for summer? — But one area the magazine has not delved into much is giving advice …
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Adweek, SocialTimes.com and eMedia Vitals
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
AOL's HuffPost Enters Crowded Online Arena With HuffPost Celebrity Site — The Huffington Post Media Group, AOL's fast-moving content unit, is launching a celebrity site called HuffPost Celebrity today, as well as another called HuffPost Culture. — HuffPost Celebrity …
Tanzina Vega / Media Decoder:
Black News in New Focus — NBC News and Interactive One, a network of Web sites aimed at African-Americans, plan to announce a partnership on Monday that will combine the editorial and sales resources of both properties. The partnership will focus on aligning NBC's African-American news site …
Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:
Guardian Extends Its Digital Effort To E-Readers With Kindle App — This looks like an example of “Digital First” in action: today, the Guardian announced that it has launched a Kindle app, its first for the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) device, as it looks to extend its footprint to more wireless devices …
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Guardian, NetNewsCheck Latest, Future of Journalism, eBookNewser, Journalism.co.uk and Pocket-lint