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Guardian:
News of the World phone-hacking whistleblower found dead — Death of Sean Hoare - who was first named journalist to allege Andy Coulson knew of hacking - not being treated as suspicious — • Sean Hoare profile: A courageous and distinguished reporter
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Bloomberg:
Murdoch Struggles for Control as Scandal Grows — News Corp. (NWS)'s Rupert Murdoch is struggling to control the destiny of the company he began building six decades ago after a trusted deputy was arrested and Scotland Yard's top official quit over ties to a suspect in the phone-hacking probe.
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New York Times:
Murdoch Aides Long Tried to Blunt Scandal Over Hacking — LONDON — Two days before it emerged that The News of the World had hacked the cellphone of a murdered schoolgirl, igniting a scandal that has shaken Rupert Murdoch's media empire, his son James told friends that he thought the worst of the troubles were behind him.
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Guardian, New York Magazine, American Journalism Review, Salon, Vanity Fair, msnbc.com and Associated Press
Johnnie L. Roberts / The Wrap:
A Rupert Murdoch Peer: He's ‘Dead Money’ — Now more engulfed than ever in a virulent phone-hacking scandal, it appears that Rupert Murdoch's days amid the upper echelons of media moguldom are numbered. — With resignations and arrests occurring daily among News Corp.'s top newspaper executives …
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Guardian, paidContent, The Wire, On Media's Blog, PC Magazine, ZDNet, Pocket-lint, Future of Journalism, The Independent and New York Magazine
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
What's next for News Corp. and its worlds — There's no telling how the News Corp. saga will turn out, but I'll try. Here's a scenario that leads to the breakup of News Corp., the Murdochs out of power, the deflation of institutional journalism, a break in the too-cozy media-government complex …
David Carr / New York Times:
Troubles That Money Can't Dispel — “Bury your mistakes,” Rupert Murdoch is fond of saying. But some mistakes don't stay buried, no matter how much money you throw at them. — Time and again in the United States and elsewhere, Mr. Murdoch's News Corporation has used blunt force spending …
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Newsweek:
How We Broke the Murdoch Scandal — Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger on his dogged reporter, a U.S. ally—and a gamble that finally paid off. — Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian. Inset: Cover of The Guardian after the scandal. — Every so often—perhaps once every 18 months …
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Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:
Updated: The Sun and News International sites hacked, Lulzsec claims responsibility
Updated: The Sun and News International sites hacked, Lulzsec claims responsibility
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Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:
New News Corp Strategy: Become an Even More American Company
New News Corp Strategy: Become an Even More American Company
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, Guardian and Salon
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
WSJ To News Corp. Critics: STFU
WSJ To News Corp. Critics: STFU
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Guardian, The Wrap, Editors Weblog, Tuned In and New York Magazine
Wall Street Journal:
News and Its Critics — A tabloid's excesses don't tarnish thousands …
News and Its Critics — A tabloid's excesses don't tarnish thousands …
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Vikram Dodd / Guardian:
How Sir Paul Stephenson's £12,000 spa break triggered downfall
How Sir Paul Stephenson's £12,000 spa break triggered downfall
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New York Magazine:
21 New Media Innovators — While the dark days of journalism have receded a bit — it was only three years ago that layoffs were a weekly occurrence, and serious people discussed the closure of the New York Times — the business is still very much in a state of chaotic flux.
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Gannett: Focus Is On Growning Digital Business, Not Margins — With Gannett's digital revenues reliably growing by double digits for the past year, analysts on the company's Q2 earnings call noted that the segment's operating margins are around 25 percent. But with digital making …
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David Kaplan / paidContent:UK:
Yahoo Helps Boost Digital At Local Gannett Papers; USAT Digital Revs Jump
Yahoo Helps Boost Digital At Local Gannett Papers; USAT Digital Revs Jump
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Wall Street Journal:
Reader's Digest Seeks Buyer — Reader's Digest Association Inc., the magazine and Web site publisher that emerged from bankruptcy protection in early 2010, has put itself up for sale and hopes to fetch around $1 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Folio, Poynter, Deal Journal, Adweek and FishbowlNY
Martin Langeveld / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Alden Global Capital drops a shoe: Is the Journal Register acquisition prelude to more consolidation? — On Thursday, Journal Register Company announced that it had been acquired by Alden Global Capital, a secretive hedge fund that specializes in “distressed opportunities,” …
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Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
CNN, HLN to Stream on Web — Time Warner Networks Make Internet Simulcasts Available to Pay-TV Subscribers — Time Warner Inc. is increasing the number of TV channels and programs it pipes over the Internet to people who have conventional pay-TV subscriptions, as the television business …
Phillip Mendonça-Vieira:
The nytimes they are a-changin' — Due to an errant cron task that ran twice an hour from September 2010 to July 2011, I accidentally collected about 12,000 screenshots of the front page of the nytimes.com (best viewed fullscreen at 720p). — Working on this video was fascinating …
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Nieman Journalism Lab, The Business Insider and Future Journalism Project
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Newspapers Win Suit Against Google, Get Their Wish To Be Delisted, Then Complain — For years, we've been following the bizarre legal attack in Belgium of a bunch of newspapers against Google for daring to link to them without paying. It kicked off in 2006 with a lawsuit.