Mediagazer: Phone hacking: Rebekah Brooks resignation statement (Telegraph)

10:55 AM ET, July 15, 2011

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Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:

Rebekah Brooks Quits as News International Chief in Phone-Hacking Scandal — Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive officer of News Corp. (NWS)'s News International U.K. publishing unit, has stepped down amid a phone-hacking scandal that resulted in the closure of the News of the World tabloid she once edited.

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Guardian:

Rebekah Brooks's resignation letter — How News International's chief executive informed staff she was stepping down — Rebekah Brooks resigns over phone-hacking scandal — At News International we pride ourselves on setting the news agenda for the right reasons. Today we are leading the news for the wrong ones.

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Bruce Orwall / Wall Street Journal:

In Interview, Murdoch Defends News Corp. — In his first significant public comments on the tabloid newspaper scandal that has engulfed his media empire, News Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch vigorously defended the company's handling of the crisis but said it would establish …

Telegraph:

Phone hacking: Rebekah Brooks resignation statement — Rebekah Brooks has resigned as chief executive of News International following the phone hacking scandal. Here is the internal memo that was sent to NI staff: — Rebekah Brooks resigns in wake of NOTW phone-hacking scandal

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Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:

Down with Murdoch: Rebekah Brooks is gone, but now it's Parliament that's in trouble — Via World Economic Forum. — In an interview with The Wall Street Journal yesterday, Rupert Murdoch was hanging tough. — He said that in the massive phone-hacking scandal that has embroiled British Parliament …

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Martin Wolf / Financial Times:

Seize the chance for media reform — Intimidated children rounding on the playground bully - that is the spectacle in the UK since the News of the World phone-hacking scandal exploded. As one who has long believed that the influence of Rupert Murdoch on UK public life was quite intolerable …

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

For Murdoch Loyalist, Another Stint in the Spotlight — In March 2003, a committee of the House of Commons summoned the executive in charge of Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers to a hearing and put him on the spot about aggressive tabloid reporting tactics. — “Is it time to clean up your act?” demanded one member of Parliament.

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Paul Farhi / Washington Post: Phone-hacking scandal highlights the differences in British, U.S. media

Brian Braiker / Adweek: The Murdoch Maelstrom Comes West

Tom Hays / Associated Press:
AP source: FBI investigating News Corp.

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Tom Hays / Associated Press:
AP source: FBI reviews News Corp. 9/11 phone claim

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Hélène Mulholland / Guardian:
Phone hacking: Rupert Murdoch summonsed to appear before MPs

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Natasha Mohanty / Google News Blog:

Shareable Google News badges for your favorite topics — (Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog) — On Google News, the average reader of political news has read 20 articles about politics in the last six months. Where do you stand? — Starting today, in the U.S. edition of Google News …

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Jxpaton / Digital First:

Our Next Big Step — Today we announced that the Journal Register Company has been bought by Alden Global Capital. And that's terrific news for us. — Alden has been an investor in our Company for some time and they have had a courtside seat to the Journal Register Company's radical makeover following our Digital First strategy.

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Journal Register Company:
Journal Register Company Acquired by Alden Global Capital

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Jonathan / awe.sm:

Twitter drives 4 times as much traffic as you think it does — Over the last few weeks, TechCrunch has run a couple posts using their own referrer logs to measure how sharing on various social services drives traffic. In these and other analyses based solely on referrer information …

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D.M. Levine / Adweek:

CNN Keeping Mum About Piers Morgan Hacking Allegations — CNN hasn't been shy about covering the phone hacking related woes of News Corp., parent of rival news network Fox News. It's devoted more than 100 segments to the scandal, according to liberal press watchdog Media Matters.

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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

YouTube's New Sell: Want to Buy a Web Series for $3.5 Million? — Pursuing TV Dollars With Big-Money Web Series from Howcast, Endemol, Ben Silverman's Electus and Others — YouTube has pitched advertisers on funding big-budget web shows featuring stars like Kobe Bryant, Lady Gaga and …

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Steve Green / VEGAS INC:

Judge: Righthaven masquerading as a company — A judge today fined newspaper copyright lawsuit filer Righthaven LLC of Las Vegas $5,000 for misleading a federal court about its lawsuits. — A Righthaven attorney, Shawn Mangano, said after a hearing before U.S. District Judge Roger Hunt …

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BBC:

Guardian apologises to the Sun over Gordon Brown story — Gordon Brown questioned how the Sun came about information on his son's medical condition — The Guardian has apologised to the Sun for reporting that it accessed Gordon Brown's son's medical records.

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