Mediagazer: News Corp sets up hotline for staff to report ‘illegal activity’ (Ian Burrell/The Independent)

5:35 PM ET, October 7, 2011

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James Robinson / Guardian:

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Jonathan Browning / Bloomberg:

James Murdoch Must Leave News Corp. Board, Pension Body Says — Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) — News Corp. Deputy Chief Operating Officer James Murdoch should leave the board of the media company in the wake of a hacking scandal at its U.K. newspaper unit, according to a group of British pension funds.

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Ian Burrell / The Independent:

News Corp sets up hotline for staff to report ‘illegal activity’ — Journalists at News International (NI) and other staff in Rupert Murdoch's media empire have been told to call a hotline to report suspicious colleagues in a fresh clampdown on corruption and other illegal activities.

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Keach Hagey / The Politico:

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Steve Jobs and the continuing disruption of media — The products created by Apple and its iconic founder Steve Jobs have revolutionized a host of different industries in the past couple of decades, from personal computing to mobile telephony — but they have also had a substantial impact …

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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Steve Jobs stops the presses one last time

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John Brownlee / Cult of Mac:
Over 100 Newspaper Front Pages Around The World Mourn Steve Jobs [Gallery]

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Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

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Lindsay Rubino / Broadcasting & Cable:

Netflix Strikes Multi-Year Licensing Deal with AMC — Prior seasons of ‘The Walking Dead’ available Friday; also acquires rights to shows from AMC, IFC, Sundance, WE tv — Netflix and AMC Networks announced a multi-year licensing agreement in which prior seasons of AMC's The Walking Dead …

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Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

Disney CEO Bob Iger Inks New Contract, But Will Step Down in 2015 — The Walt Disney Company, which owns ABC, ABC News and ESPN, among numerous other media properties, has unveiled an unusual succession plan for CEO Bob Iger. Under the deal, Iger will step down as CEO in 2015 …

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Julie Moos / Poynter:

Denton pays debt on Gawker pageviews, makes new bet with Sorgatz — Just after settling a bet with Rex Sorgatz because the Gawker network fell 10 million page views short of their agreed-upon target, Nick Denton agreed to another bet — this time for 40 percent year-to-year growth. Sorgatz explains:

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

How long can AOL stay committed to Patch? — Even before AOL's future started to look dodgy — with speculation about the future of CEO Tim Armstrong ramping up, as the company's financial underperformance continues — the rollout of the Patch.com hyperlocal news project seemed exceptionally ambitious.

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Curtis Brainard / CJR:

The Scientist Closes — 25th anniversary issue of the venerable magazine will be the last — Having just published a special twenty-fifth anniversary issue in October, employees of the The Scientist, a venerable monthly magazine and website focused on the life sciences, learned Monday that it would be their last.

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