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Erin Griffith / Adweek:
The Trouble With Back-Ends — No publication has a better story about back-end chaos than BusinessWeek. — Before it was acquired by Bloomberg LP, the publication sank a shocking $20 million into the back-end development of Business Exchange, a professional social networking site …
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@fromedome, @mikeydigital, @andymboyle, @osder, @jonathanstray, @fromedome and @codybrown
Steve Myers / Poynter:
U.K. photographer explains how she captured dramatic photo during riots — All the major newspapers in the U.K. published a dramatic photo of a woman jumping from a burning building during the riots that have terrorized the country, captured by Amy Weston of the photo agency WENN.
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London riots: Sky, ITN and CNN reporters attacked — Broadcasters' vans smashed in Croydon and Sky News reporter Mark Stone forced to flee in Clapham disturbance — Journalists and photographers came under attack on Monday as London faced its third consecutive day of violent riots in the capital.
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The Huffington Post, BBC, BBC, Journalism.co.uk, The Wire, Future of Journalism, Fast Company, The Lede, PC World, Press Gazette, Forbes, Digital Trends, NBC Bay Area, WebProNews, Guardian and Jon Slattery
Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
News Corp.'s Independent Directors Have Strong Ties to Murdoch — When the News Corporation board convenes on the 20th Century Fox Studios lot Tuesday for its first meeting since a phone hacking scandal overseas plunged the company into turmoil, the participants will include many people with deep and personal ties to Rupert Murdoch.
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Poynter
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Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Murdoch to face Wall Street on News Corp earnings call — (Reuters) - News Corp is taking a risk in putting boss Rupert Murdoch, famous for his off-script comments, on the media conglomerate's quarterly earnings call on Wednesday with succession questions sure to be asked.
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The Huffington Post, Company Town, Runnin' Scared and Free Press
Ian Burrell / The Independent:
‘NOTW’ staff offered lucrative severance pay
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Press Gazette and Adweek
Mark Milian / CNN:
Newspaper giant Tribune Co. developing tablet device — (CNN) — Hoping to take a small slice from Apple's big pie, newspaper publishers are developing tablet computers of their own. — The Tribune Co., one of the largest U.S. news enterprises, is working on a touchscreen tablet that it plans …
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paidContent, Poynter, Poynter, TechCrunch, PC World, LAPTOP Mag, Liliputing, Gizmodo, eBookNewser, 9to5Google, rbr.com, 9to5Mac and NetNewsCheck Latest, more at Techmeme »
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Wall Street's Demand for Demand Media Falls Off — After the markets close tomorrow, Demand Media will report its second-quarter earnings. — Wall Street is expecting a solid performance from the Santa Monica, Calif.-based online content maker compared to last year.
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Business Wire, TechCrunch and paidContent
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
Demand Media Buys IndieClick, RSS Graffiti; Expands Google Ad Deal
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AllThingsD and LAUNCH, more at Techmeme »
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
AOL Earnings: Shares Plummet Despite Ad Revenue Gains — The addition of the Huffington Post and other acquisitions allowed AOL chairman Tim Armstrong to tell Wall Street what it has long waited to hear: the internet company's global advertising revenues grew in the second quarter, the first time that's happened since 2008.
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Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
Phone-hacking scoopster Nick Davies may join Guardian's planned U.S. operation — When not tirelessly chronicling the ongoing British phone-hacking saga, The Guardian has been lining up journalists to staff the U.S.-based website that the U.K. broadsheet plans to have up and running sometime this fall.
Discussion:
The New York Observer and Jon Slattery
Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:
Host your own crowdsourced investigation with the Help Me Investigate plugin — When we open-sourced the code for Help Me Investigate the plan was to move from a single site to a decentralised, networked structure. Now, thanks to Andy Dickinson, it has become even easier for anyone to host their own journalism crowdsourcing platform.
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The Help Me Investigate blog and AndyDickinson.net
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Brooklyn's Latest Local News Site Aims For Gritty, Not Trendy — The world isn't lacking for news about Brooklyn's artisanal pickles, flea markets and beekeeping, but a new site, Brooklyn Bureau, aims to focus on the less hip side of New York City's largest borough.
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Brooklyn Community Foundation
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
New Stats: Book Publishing Is Growing; E-Book Revs and Sales Up Over 1000% — One positive story in a week of terrible economic news: BookStats, a new annual statistical survey of raw sales revenue and unit data provided by nearly 2,000 publishers that is being released today …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Armed With $7M In New Funding, Movieclips Lands Deal With YouTube To Be The Vevo Of Film Clips — We're big fans of online movie clips site Movieclips.com, which launched in 2009 as a search engine with over 20,000 different clips from thousands of titles from the libraries of 20th Century Fox …
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VentureBeat, GigaOM, The Wrap, Business Wire and ReadWriteWeb, more at Techmeme »
D.M. Levine / Adweek:
Fast Chat: CNN President Ken Jautz — Since taking over as president of U.S. operations at CNN last September, Ken Jautz has been struggling to jazz-up what had become a snoozing network—at least by the clamorous standards of the cable news universe—with high-profile hires like Erin Burnett …
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