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Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Rupert Murdoch endorses Carey as next in line — (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch said top lieutenant Chase Carey would replace him should anything happen to the 80-year-old News Corp CEO. — The comments were the clearest sign yet that Murdoch's son James may be sidelined after a phone hacking scandal swept …
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
News Corp Says It Lost $254 Million On MySpace — News Corp lost $254 million on MySpace, the company said as it reported revenue that beat analysts' expectations. — The loss pushed News Corp.'s Q4 net income down 22 percent to $683 million. — News Corp said MySpace's losses during …
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MarketWatch:
News Corporation Reports Fourth Quarter Income from Continuing Operations of $982 Million, $0.35 Per Share
News Corporation Reports Fourth Quarter Income from Continuing Operations of $982 Million, $0.35 Per Share
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Rupert Murdoch Isn't Leaving News Corp., Selling His Newspapers or Making Any Other News
Rupert Murdoch Isn't Leaving News Corp., Selling His Newspapers or Making Any Other News
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
AOL Authorizes $250 Million Stock Buyback Program After Share Price Falls Off A Cliff — AOL (which, in case you didn't know, has been the owner of TechCrunch for almost a year now) has announced that its board of directors has given the green light for a stock repurchase program that will allow …
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Al Tompkins / Poynter:
Facebook delivers tiny Minnesota TV station a big roadkill story — On a typical day, KSAX-TV in Alexandria, Minnesota attracts about 10,000 page views. Recently, the station set a record, 250,000 page views in a single day and a million views in four days.
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Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Study: Links from other news sites matter more than social networks — A new study of Web referrals to online publishers shows links from other content sites are more important than those from social media. — Links from content sites (including other news publishers or aggregators) …
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Would-Be Hulu Buyers Will Have Their Checkbooks Ready Next Week — Quick update on the Hulu auction: Would-be buyers are expected to offer up their initial bids by the end of next week, according to people familiar with the company. — That will end the first step of a sales process …
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Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:
Cameron: media has a responsibility to hand over riot footage — Prime minister says he will encourage media organisations to hand over unused footage to aid police investigations — David Cameron has said in parliament that media organisations have a responsibility to hand over unused footage of rioters to the police.
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Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
Disney to put its shows behind a pay wall online, too — Fox might not be the only broadcaster to begin restricting access to its shows online and requiring next-day viewers to be pay TV subscribers. Disney is also working out deals with distributors that would allow viewers to watch shows sooner if they log on with a cable ID.
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Rachel Rodriguez / CNN:
From iReporter to CNNer (and beyond) — iReporter Jordan Sarver interned with the CNN iReport team in 2010. He now works at an Atlanta TV station. — (CNN) — When CNN iReport was created five years ago, it was intended to be a vehicle for people to share their stories with the world. And it is!
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Forbes.com:
Forbes Update: Our New Article Page for the Era of Social Media Is Now Live — Subscribe to Forbes Get a Free Trial Issue … There's been a lot of teeth gnashing lately about the future of the article page on the Web. Some believe it too closely mimics newspaper and magazine formats.
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Todd Spangler / Multichannel News:
Cablevision, Viacom Resolve iPad App Spat — Companies Reach Out-of-Court Settlement on Distribution of Programming to IP Devices — Cablevision Systems and Viacom announced Wednesday that they have settled their litigation over the cable operator's apps providing live TV and VOD to subscribers in their homes.
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Jim Romenesko / Poynter:
Brauchli: No plans for a Washington Post paywall — At the AAJA convention in Detroit, Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli said “we are quite content being the largest free premium newspaper online” and that a paywall won't be going up anytime soon. Knight Foundation's John Bracken told the audience that “print is the new vinyl.”
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
Schmidle defends sourcing in New Yorker's ‘Getting bin Laden’ story, while narrative editors suggest improvements — In his recent New Yorker piece, “Getting Bin Laden,” Nicholas Schmidle shares a powerful account of what happened the night that Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.
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Ben Popper / Betabeat:
Twitter Finally Taps The Massive TV Ad Market with Help From Trendrr — Can Twitter finally make it rain...revenue? — There are an average of 200 weather related tweets per minute in America, with that number spiking to 2 million on a day of severe weather.
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Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
13 Pieces of Campaign Advice for Young Reporters — No. 13 - Do not rely upon the hotel wake-up call. And don't forget time zones. — No. 12 - “the news was first reported by (reporter) of (rival organization).” Do it. Applies to blogs too. — No. 11 - Someone somewhere thinks things …
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