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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Amanpour to Leave ABC's ‘This Week’ and Rejoin CNN — Updated Christiane Amanpour is leaving the anchor chair of ABC's “This Week” and returning to her old network home, CNN, as the anchor of an evening newscast on CNN International. — The changes, confirmed Tuesday evening …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Amanpour Leaving ‘This Week’ for New ABC Role, CNN International Show — NEW YORK — Christiane Amanpour will soon step down as host of ABC's “This Week” to take on a new role at the network, where she'll host about six primetime specials a year and appear on ABC News programs …
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Steve Myers / Poynter:
Brian Stelter accidentally tweets tip about Amanpour leaving ‘This Week’ — Brian Stelter had an awkward Twitter moment this afternoon when he accidentally tweeted to his 97,000 followers that he had heard that Christiane Amanpour would be departing as host of ABC's “This Week.”
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Russ Stanton steps down as Times editor — Managing Editor Davan Maharaj will assume the top newsroom job. Stanton, 52, has led the news organization for four years, a period in which the paper won three Pulitzer Prizes, including the Public Service Award for exposing corruption in the city of Bell.
Gautham Nagesh / Hillicon Valley:
Dodd on piracy bill: ‘Hollywood is pro-Internet’ — Former Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), now the head of the Motion Picture Association of America, pushed back at criticism his industry is backing an online piracy bill that would lead to censorship online during a speech on Tuesday. — “Hollywood is pro-Internet.
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The Pirates of Youtube — The real villains of YouTube are the multinational companies cashing in on public domain footage they claim is their own — When you hear about “piracy” in connection to YouTube, perhaps you think of the billion-dollar lawsuit brought by Viacom against the Google division …
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Universal: Artists didn't consent to Megaupload video
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Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat:
Megaupload is suing Universal for unjustly yanking its commercial off YouTube
Megaupload is suing Universal for unjustly yanking its commercial off YouTube
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Trump Bows Out — This just in: Donald Trump has bowed out of moderating the NewsMax debate in Iowa later, announcing his decision in a statement saying he will not give up the option of running for president as an independent. Trump:
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Bobby Bank / ABCNEWS:
Donald Trump Backs Out of Debate, Floating Independent Bid
Donald Trump Backs Out of Debate, Floating Independent Bid
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Milly Dowler and the tabloid: trail that led to phone-hacking story — Senior NoW executive wrote to Surrey police specifically admitting Milly Dowler's phone had been hacked — The disappearance of Milly Dowler in March 2002 was a time of excruciating anguish for her family, as Surrey police hunted for clues to her fate.
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Phone hacking: lawyer knew ‘rogue reporter’ defence was untrue in 2008
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Richard Allen Greene / CNN:
James Murdoch warned over phone hacking, e-mail shows
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
AP Launches Strategy To Go Beyond Breaking News, Become More ‘Distinct’ — NEW YORK — The Associated Press has been getting it first and getting it right for the past 165 years. — But as traditional rivals like Bloomberg and Reuters ramp up opinion and analysis — and as competition increased …
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Video of ‘Times’ photographer's confrontation with police touches off another exchange between NYPD and local media — An attorney for The New York Times sent an email yesterday afternoon to Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne expressing “disappointment” after officers interfered …
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Occupy LA: LAPD Investigates Caught-on-Video Arrest of Journalist Calvin Milam
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Josh Stearns / Save the News:
NYPD: Elmo Safe, Journalists Not So Much
NYPD: Elmo Safe, Journalists Not So Much
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Verizon ‘Very Serious’ About Making Bid for Netflix, Banker Says — Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ), the second-largest U.S. phone company, is “very serious” about a bid to acquire online movie provider Netflix Inc. (NFLX), an investment banker said. — Verizon may kick off a bidding war …
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Will Richmond / paidContent:
If Netflix Is In Play, Here's Some Companies That Would Be In The Hunt
If Netflix Is In Play, Here's Some Companies That Would Be In The Hunt
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Andrew Albanese / Publishers Weekly:
Authors Guild Files for Class Certification in Google Case — The Google Book Settlement may be dead, but the litigation lives on. On December 12, attorneys for the Authors Guild filed a motion for class certification, hitting the deadline set forth by Judge Denny Chin at a September 15 status conference …
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Hulu Latino Content Goes Live … NEW YORK - Hulu on Tuesday launched its previously announced Hulu Latino service, which it says offers “the most robust and complete Spanish-language content library available through an online video service in the U.S. — The online video joint venture of News Corp. …
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BBC World News to Be Available Through Comcast — The BBC will announce on Tuesday a first-of-its-kind deal for Comcast to carry the BBC World News channel, opening the door to wider distribution for the channel within the United States. — The carriage agreements come nearly a year …
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The TV Watch: Chelsea Clinton Finally Embraces Her Celebrity — Chelsea Clinton gave a perfectly honed and utterly unsatisfying explanation on Monday for why she made her debut as a special correspondent on NBC's magazine show, “Rock Center with Brian Williams.”
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Busted: BitTorrent Pirates at Sony, Universal and Fox — A few days ago we wrote about a new website that exposes what people behind an IP-address have downloaded on BitTorrent. The Russian-based founders of the site developed the service so people can show their friends how public …
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NoW's Ian Edmondson asked Glenn Mulcaire to hack phones, court is told — Mulcaire's lawyer says private detective was instructed by News of the World's news editor to intercept voicemail messages — Glenn Mulcaire told the chief lawyer at the News of the World in 2007 that he was instructed …
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