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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton Stepping Down — Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton is leaving the company in the wake of the PhoneGate hacking scandal. Hinton is the second high-ranking News Corp. executive to step down today, and the first major figure from the company's American operations.
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Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:
Dow Jones CEO Hinton to Resign — Les Hinton, who headed News Corp.'s News International unit when the phone-hacking allegations roiling the media empire first arose, on Friday will resign his post as chief executive officer of Dow Jones & Co., according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Fox And Friends Defends News Corp's Hacking Scandal: ‘We Should Move On’ — Fox News finally addressed their parent company's hacking scandal head on this morning, with Fox and Friends launching a comically sycophantic and pathetically inaccurate defense of News Corp. Host Steve Doocy …
The Daily Beast:
Murdoch Scandal Roils WSJ — Faced with sleazy corporate cousins, reporters at the august Wall Street Journal are grappling with how to cover their boss's scandal—and their own survival. By Nick Summers. — On Tuesday, July 5, bureau chiefs and editors at The Wall Street Journal dialed …
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Jane Martinson / Guardian:
Tom Mockridge: profile of News International's new chief executive
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Wall Street / @wsj:
Breaking: Les Hinton, chief executive of News Corp.'s Dow Jones & Co. unit, is to resign today. http://wsj.com
Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:
Down with Murdoch: Rebekah Brooks is gone, but now it's Parliament that's in trouble
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Sam Marsden / The Independent:
Murdoch to apologise in national newspapers
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Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
Rebekah Brooks Quits as News International Chief in Phone-Hacking Scandal
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Rebekah Brooks's resignation letter
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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Facebook Is Getting Into the News Business — If you're a leading news brand, this guy wants to be your friend. Image by AFP/Getty Images via @daylife — Facebook has a war on its hands, and Mark Zuckerberg knows it. Practically overnight, Google+ has gone from a rumor to a thriving community with over 10 million members.
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Andrew Ross Sorkin Joins CNBC as Co-Anchor of ‘Squawk Box’ — First on TVNewser: CNBC has hired New York Times scribe and DealBook founder Andrew Ross Sorkin to be the new co-anchor of the signature morning program “Squawk Box,” TVNewser has learned. — Sorkin, who has been a contributor on CNBC …
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Nosheen Iqbal / The Independent:
The long-form resurrection: Will snappy websites kill off lengthy magazine reads? — A new set of online curators that collect the best non-fiction suggests otherwise. — Last summer, the editor-in-chief of technology magazine Wired wrote and ran a cover story declaring, “The Web is Dead”.
Lauren Kirchner / CJR:
John Paton's Big Bet — Will “Digital First” bring home the bacon? … e're no good at this," John Paton says, sitting in a midtown Manhattan conference room on a gray, rainy spring day. “ We” is the news business, and “this” is designing a viable future for it. “ We have to figure it out.
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hosted2.ap.org:
Belgian newspapers: Google blocking us on searches … BRUSSELS (AP) — Google blocked several Belgian newspapers from its search listings Friday in what the papers alleged was retaliation by the internet giant over a court case dealing with copyright infringement.
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Ilya Vedrashko / Advertising Lab:
Will Daily Deals Turn Newspapers Around? — “Groupon is Hastening the Demise of the Newspaper Industry,” wrote a daily deals trade pub in April. — It could be the other way around. — The technological barriers to the deals space are pretty low; Shoutback and Nimble Commerce …
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Michael / Petrelis Files:
Bay Citizen, NYT Partner in SF, — Evasive on $17M Fiscal Transparency — As a news junkie, I have followed the creation of the Bay Citizen, a regional online news service that twice-weekly provides content to the New York Times' print and online Bay Area section.
Rafe Needleman / CNET News:
Is Reddit the new Twitter? ‘Redditor’ reports live from apt. complex turned crime scene — A standoff between New Jersey police and a man who reportedly shot another man with a rifle is being reported live on the Web. But not on Twitter, from which previous real-time incidents …
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