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The Business Insider:
AOL SPOKESMAN: Mike Arrington Is No Longer Employed By This Company* — Update: WAIT! Now AOL Says Mike Arrington Is Still An Employee - In The Business Development Division — Earlier: TechCrunch founder and editor Michael Arrington is “not employed by AOL” anymore, AOL Huffington Post spokesperson Mario Ruiz tells us.
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Dan Primack / Fortune:
CrunchFund confusion — If Michael Arrington is leaving TechCrunch, what does that mean for the investors in CrunchFund? — Yesterday we were first to report that tech blogger Michael Arrington has launched a $20 million venture capital fund, which is being backed by AOL (AOL) and a group of Silicon Valley's top VC firms.
Paul Carr / TechCrunch:
The CrunchFund: Actually, Tim, We Don't All Have “Different” Standards — Yesterday afternoon, Mike Arrington and AOL CEO Tim Armstrong announced the launch of “the CrunchFund”, a venture fund that will — according to the New York Times — “invest in start-ups, including some that [Arrington] and his staff write about”.
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FT Tech Hub, more at Techmeme »
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Mike Arrington, AOL Employee, Won't Have “Influence on Coverage,” Says AOL — You thought a story about Mike Arrington would be clean and easy? Ha. — So here's the latest (for those just tuning in, we'll do backstory later — who said the inverted triangle was dead?):
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Mixed Media and The Loop
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Arrington is the future of what we used to call journalism — Interesting but not too surprising how the tech press is spinning the new VC fund being run by Mike Arrington of TechCrunch. — There's not any real controversy here, however. — 1. It's not news. He's been investing in tech startups for a long time.
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Anil Dash, VatorNews and Mark Evans Tech
Nicholas Carlson / The Business Insider:
AOL Is Replacing Michael Arrington At TechCrunch - He'll Still Write
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Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Future of Journalism and Gizmodo
Dan Primack / Fortune:
Michael Arrington launching venture fund
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Mat Honan / Gizmodo:
Aol: You've Got Conflicts
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch receives $12.5m bonus — News Corp chief's total pay package soars 47% to $33m, though his son James has declined $6m bonus — Rupert Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, received a $12.5m (£7.7m) cash bonus for the last financial year …
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
James Murdoch Turns Down $6 Million Bonus, Citing PhoneGate — News Corp. executive James Murdoch says he'll decline a $6 million bonus the company gave him for his performance in its last fiscal year, citing the ongoing PhoneGate scandal. — Murdoch, who is Deputy Chief Operating Officer …
James Cusick / The Independent:
Gordon Brown issues challenge over Sunday Times recordings — Gordon Brown has stepped up his campaign against Rupert Murdoch's News International media group, sending tape recordings to the Metropolitan Police earlier today which he says challenge the Sunday Times's assurances that it broke …
Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:
Phone hacking: 34-year-old man arrested — Unnamed man arrested by officers from the Met police's Operation Weeting team in connection with phone hacking and perverting the course of justice — Today's arrest is the 15th by the Met police's Operation Weeting phone hacking investigation
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Guardian and Press Gazette
Felix Gillette / Business Week:
Matthew Freud Will See You Now — If the PR whiz can steer himself and his wife, Elisabeth Murdoch, through the News Corp. scandal, he could emerge as a central force in the empire — In the night of July 2, Elisabeth Murdoch and her husband, Matthew Freud, threw a party at their country estate on the outskirts of London.
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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Jim Breyer Joins News Corp. Board as Tom Perkins Departs
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Ben Fritz / Company Town:
Netflix offered $300 million-plus, but Starz wanted higher consumer prices — Starz didn't just want Netflix to pay more money for its content. It wanted Netflix consumers to pay more too. — Netflix offered Starz more than $300 million per year to renew their agreement …
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Ben Popper / Betabeat:
Fashion Week Flameout: Why the Industry Is Erupting at Tumblr and Rich Tong — Earlier this year Tumblr was the toast of fashion week. The company's fashion director, Rich Tong, negotiated access for influential Tumblr users to cover swanky events. The bloggers, once the red headed step children …
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Future of Journalism
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Ben Popper / Betabeat:
The Legal Risks of Rich Tong's Tumblr Fashion Week Proposal
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The Corsair
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Oprah calls on tech bigs to save Web site — Oprah Winfrey is in need of an Internet intervention. — The talk show queen plans to huddle with top tech players next week to gin up some ideas for reviving her flagship site, Oprah.com, whose traffic has plummeted since her daytime talk show ended in May, The Post has learned.
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
It's not just nice for media to be social — it's imperative — By now, plenty of people have written about the need for traditional media entities to embrace social media as a way to engage with their readers, or what journalism professor Jay Rosen has called “the people formerly known as the audience.”
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College Media Matters, Future of Journalism and Free Press, Thanks:ejbarbwilkinson
NPR Topics:
As Media Lines ‘Blur,’ We All Become Editors … For years now, media watchers have warned that the dwindling popularity of traditional media would change how we follow the news. They've predicted that news consumers would need to learn the difference between a credible source and an interested party …
Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
Reporters Without Borders suspends WikiLeaks mirror site — Press freedom group temporarily suspends mirror site following WikiLeaks' publication of its entire cache of unredacted US embassy cables — Press freedom group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has temporarily suspended …
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