Mediagazer: Yahoo to Launch Original Comedy Channel With Bill Maher Stand-Up Performance (Georg Szalai/Hollywood Reporter)

12:20 PM ET, December 9, 2011

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Mark Sweney / Guardian:

BBC review clears journalists of hacking — Internal BBC review finds no evidence of hacking or bribery, but director general to recommend beefing up journalists' guidelines — A wide-ranging BBC review launched in the wake of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal has concluded …

Discussion: Press Gazette

BBC:

Leveson Inquiry: Private data theft ‘extremely serious’ — Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry is sitting at the Royal Courts of Justice in London — Illegally obtaining personal records can be more serious than phone hacking, the Leveson Inquiry has been told.

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

Collegiate Times publishes special edition after Virginia Tech campus shooting — When Collegiate Times editor-in-chief Zach Crizer first heard about Thursday's Virginia Tech shooting via a university alert, he ran to the scene with news editor Michelle Sutherland.

Discussion: New York Times, Collegiate Times, The New York Observer, vt.edu and DCist

Steve Myers / Poynter:
Collegiate Times shifts publishing to Twitter, Facebook for shooting coverage

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Stefanie Botelho / Folio:

Vogue Launches Content Archive for $1,575 Annual Subscription — Includes 120 years of articles, advertisements and photography. — For readers who can't get enough Vogue through its website, digital and print issues, Conde Nast announces a searchable database chronicling the magazine's 120-year, 4,800 issue history.

Discussion: New York Magazine, paidContent:UK, eMedia Vitals, Wall Street Journal, Medacity, FishbowlNY, Digital Audio Insider and TeleRead

Jason Del Rey / AdAge:

AOL's Patch Gets a Little Less Hyper-Local — Consolidates Sites in New Jersey, California — At one time, AOL had hoped to reach 1,000 Patch sites by the end of 2011. But now comes word that Patch is slightly scaling back its efforts in some markets, fueling speculation inside …

Discussion: Business Insider, Thanks:delrey

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

New Twitter formalizes news wire service function — What started as a simple, chronological Twitter timeline of your friends' short messages is now actively curating the news and information that flows through the social network. … As part of a major redesign, Twitter is launching a new …

Discussion: AdAge, Daring Fireball, Mashable!, CNET News, WebProNews, AllThingsD and Editors Weblog, more at Techmeme »

Daniel O'Carroll / IrishCentral:

Trinity College Dublin bans the Daily Mail newspaper after faking student death story — See more: Irish media An Irish university has moved to ban a prominent tabloid from its campus after it deliberately published a story falsely claiming that a search subject had been found dead.

Discussion: Guardian, Future of Journalism, TheJournal.ie and Regret the Error

David Carr / Media Decoder:

Former Bon Appétit Editor to Run Digital Food Magazine — Barbara Fairchild, who stepped down last year as editor of Bon Appétit, was named editor in chief of Real Eats, a weekly digital magazine about food. — Ms. Fairchild worked for 32 years at Bon Appétit, which is owned by Condé Nast.

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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:

Spotify Radio conducts music with Pandora-like app — Spotify co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek speaks at LeWeb. — PARIS—Music-streaming service Spotify has followed in the footsteps of rival Pandora with radio stations, a way to let people listen to songs the service selects.

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Steven Church / Bloomberg:

Dodgers Win Bankruptcy Court's Approval to Try to Sell TV Rights Early — The Los Angeles Dodgers won a bankruptcy judge's permission try to sell future television rights to the team's baseball games months earlier than their current contract with Fox Sports allows.

Discussion: Bloomberg, ESPN and Deadline.com

Matt Lynley / Business Insider:

Sarah Lacy And Mike Arrington Are Starting TechCrunch 2.0 — Former managing editor of TechCrunch Sarah Lacy is doing what many people expected her to do after she left TechCrunch last month — building a brand new version of it. — Lacy is working on starting a new tech news site, according to multiple sources.

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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

Yahoo to Launch Original Comedy Channel With Bill Maher Stand-Up Performance … NEW YORK - Yahoo said Thursday it would launch the Yahoo Comedy Channel with a slate of original comedy video content featuring such comedians as Mike O'Brien, lead writer on Saturday Night Live, and Seth Morris …

Discussion: Business Insider

Michael McAuliff / The Huffington Post:

Rupert Murdoch Lobbies Congress To Restrict Internet … WASHINGTON — News Corp. honcho Rupert Murdoch threw his weight behind Congress' attempt to restrict the Internet, personally lobbying leaders on Capitol Hill Wednesday for two measures that purport to combat piracy.