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Guardian:
NoW 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, the former News of the World showbiz reporter who was the first named journalist to allege Andy Coulson was aware …
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Wall Street Journal:
News and Its Critics — A tabloid's excesses don't tarnish thousands of other journalists. — When News Corp. and CEO Rupert Murdoch secured enough shares to buy Dow Jones & Co. four years ago, these columns welcomed our new owner and promised to stand by the same standards and principles we always had.
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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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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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Bloomberg, Future of Journalism, The Wire and The Independent
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 …
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Wall Street Journal, Media & Entertainment, Washington Post, Epicenter and eMedia Vitals
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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CJR, Future of Journalism, The Business Insider, The New York Observer and Ben Smith's Blog
Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:
New News Corp Strategy: Become an Even More American Company — We'd all be ready to shell out pay-per-view prices (those for boxing, not a simple movie) to peek in on the House of Commons' questioning of Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks Tuesday.
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Guardian
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
WSJ To News Corp. Critics: STFU
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Guardian, Editors Weblog, The Huffington Post and BBC
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 …
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CNN, On Media's Blog, VideoNuze, App Advice, eMedia Vitals and Future of Journalism, more at Techmeme »
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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Poynter, Folio, FishbowlNY, Adweek and Deal Journal
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,” …
Virginia Heffernan / Opinionator:
The Price of Typos — Some readers like to see portraits of authors they admire, study their personal histories or hear them read aloud. I like to know whether an author can spell. Nabokov spelled beautifully. Fitzgerald was crummy at spelling, bedeviled by entry-level traps like “definate.”
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TeleRead
stdout.be:
Machine Learning Fairy Dust — I was looking over the entries to the Mozilla-Knight digital journalism challenge, which asks people to think of an application that could profoundly impact the way digital journalism is done. (Disclaimer: I'm a participant myself.)
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Daniel Bachhuber's weblog
Craig Silverman / CJR:
The Case for the Corrections Page — Why news organizations should follow the Times's example — A website redesign is a major event for a news organization. Reuters recently unveiled a new website, and it occasioned blog posts from former editor-in-chief and current chairman …
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Editors Weblog
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Hearst-Owned Magazines Launching Daily Deals With Group Commerce — Hearst-owned magazines are treading on Groupon's territory with the launch of group-buying discounts, starting off with Road & Track and Car and Driver. — Hearst will be using a platform built for big media publishers by Group Commerce …
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Street Fight
Vikram Dodd / Guardian:
How Sir Paul Stephenson's £12,000 spa break triggered downfall — Former Metropolitan police chief says he had no reason to suspect adviser of involvement in phone hacking — Sir Paul Stephenson was brought in as a safe pair of hands in December 2009 with the remit of placing …
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New York Magazine
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