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U.S. authorities looking into Murdoch foreign payments — (Reuters) - U.S. authorities are stepping up investigations, including an FBI criminal inquiry, into possible violations by employees of Rupert Murdoch's media empire of a U.S. law banning corrupt payments to foreign officials such as police …
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Guardian
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Video easy: HBO takes a $10m investment in Quickflix — THE US television company HBO is investing $10 million in the Australian entertainment market, taking out a 16 per cent stake in the video subscription service Quickflix. HBO will receive 83.3 million preference shares at 12¢ …
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Crikey and Wall Street Journal
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Disney's ABC, Univision Mull News-Channel Launch — Walt Disney Co. and Univision Communications Inc. are in talks to create a new 24-hour cable-news channel that will broadcast in English, in an effort to keep pace with changing demographics among U.S. Hispanics and reach a new audience of English speakers …
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Gawker, TVNewser, Media Decoder, Deadline.com, Inside Cable News, Politico, New York Magazine and Chickaboomer
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
The ABC News-Univision game change — The talks between Disney and Univision have set media tongues wagging in anticipation of a new 24-hour news network that would compete with CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News, and would likely have major ramifications for the cable news industry and for the national political discourse.
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TVNewser
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
No Ads, No Madonna But NBC Calls Live Stream A Success — It had never been tried before: a live, legal Internet stream of television's biggest event, the Super Bowl. — Despite some complaints from users, NBC declared it to be a success on Monday and said it would report the total number of streams on Tuesday.
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Forbes, Digital Spy, Streaming Media, Media Week, Washington Post, AllThingsD, mUmBRELLA and Media News
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John Koblin / WWD:
Vogue Wins Big With Super Bowl Halftime Show
Vogue Wins Big With Super Bowl Halftime Show
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Forbes, Fast Company, Broadcasting & Cable, Multichannel, MinOnline and rbr.com
Richard Deitsch / Sports Illustrated:
Super Bowl XLVI sets viewership records
Super Bowl XLVI sets viewership records
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Yahoo! News, Hollywood Reporter, USA Today, Variety, SB Nation St. Louis, TVbytheNumbers and MediaPost
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McClatchy Beats Earnings Predictions, Touts Digital Investments — McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) Company's fourth quarter operating earnings beat analysts' predictions, while the newspaper chain also reported an overall boost from investments in online properties like Cars.com and Apartments.com.
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McClatchy reports higher quarterly profits as signs show revenue slump easing — The McClatchy Co. reported higher quarterly profits today amid signs that its lengthy revenue slump is easing. — Sacramento-based McClatchy, which owns The Bee, said income from continuing operations rose …
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IAC Trying to Sell Vimeo, Seeking $300M Valuation — Barry Diller's IAC is testing the waters on a partial exit of Vimeo, according to two sources familiar with the situation. The company is hoping to raise a $50 million round of funding in conjunction with a spin off of the hipster online video business.
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Betabeat
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Morning Brouhaha: Roland Responds — Late last night, CNN Analyst and Washington Watch Host Roland Martin issued a “Final Thoughts” statement on the Super Bowl controversy that has thrown a wet blanket over him for the past 48 hours. In it, he explains that the LGBT community has accused him of supporting violence against gays.
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Roland Martin Reports, The Huffington Post and FishbowlNY
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
At CNN, is homophobia a ‘viewpoint’?
At CNN, is homophobia a ‘viewpoint’?
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The Huffington Post, Erik Wemple, Show Tracker, Politico and GLAAD
Rebecca Shapiro / The Huffington Post:
CNN Pundit Under Fire From Gay Rights Groups
CNN Pundit Under Fire From Gay Rights Groups
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Erik Wemple, Poynter, Politico and mediabistro.com
Julie Moos / Poynter:
Bay Citizen appoints interim CEO while awaiting word on merger — Chief Technology Officer Brian C. Kelley takes over as CEO of the San Francisco-based nonprofit news site after the former CEO, interim editor-in-chief and founding editor-in-chief all resigned in the last five months.
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The Bay Citizen
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Debunking the “original sin” of online newspapers — Whenever newspaper executives get together to bemoan the fate of their industry, someone inevitably brings up the so-called “original sin” of the online news business — namely, a failure to charge for content when the web was new.
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eMedia Vitals, Thanks:@mathewi
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Paul Dacre: Bad journalists should be ‘struck off’ — Britain's longest-serving national newspaper editor has outlined radical plans to create a register of journalists under a new press regulator that would also have the power to strike them off. — In evidence to the Leveson Inquiry this afternoon …
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Shaping the Future …, Guardian, themediablog.typepad.com, FleetStreetBlues and Guardian
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