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Don Van Natta Jr / New York Times:

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Joe Nocera / New York Times:

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Reuters:

Special Report: Inside Rebekah Brooks' News of the World — (Reuters) - “It was the kind of place you get out of and you never want to go back again.” That's how one former reporter describes the News of the World newsroom under editor Rebekah Brooks, the ferociously ambitious titian-haired executive …

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James Chapman / Daily Mail:

Rebekah Brooks in line for £3.5m pay out as News International slaps gagging orders on chief executives (apart from that inquiry on Tuesday) — Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks was given a seven-figure severance package after resigning, it has emerged.

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The Daily Beast:

Succession Drama at WSJ — Now the Murdoch scandal has claimed Dow Jones' CEO. That has the Journal newsroom worrying they could end up working for a controversial Rupert henchman. By Nick Summers. — As the British wing of the News Corp. media empire imploded this month under the weight …

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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.

Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:
Dow Jones CEO Hinton to Resign

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Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Fox And Friends Defends News Corp's Hacking Scandal: ‘We Should Move On’

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

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Bostonia:

News Without End — It's a rainy spring morning in midtown Manhattan, and on the sixth floor of the futuristic glass skyscraper known as Bloomberg Tower, Andy Lack is listening, energetically, as a half-dozen producers run through a short list of potential guests for Bloomberg West …

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Heather Brooke / Guardian:

Let's break up this information cartel — Britain's cosy, corrupt power elite has been fostered by a black-market trade in data — Nick Clegg was right to acknowledge on Wednesday that phone hacking is the symptom of a wider problem: the cosy, corrupt relationship between the power elites.

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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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”.

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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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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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.