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Reuters:
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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@henrycp, Guardian, New York Magazine and The Huffington Post
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Paul McNally / Journalism.co.uk:
Times admits and apologises for NightJack email hacking — Editor James Harding says he was not told about how 2009 story revealing identity of police officer had been obtained — James Harding: reporting was highly intrusive — The Times has apologised for hacking into a police officer's email account …
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Guardian, Press Gazette and Journalism.co.uk
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
In latest report, circulation is up for ‘New York,’ ‘New Yorker’ — During a six month period in which the magazine industry continued to see decreases in subscriptions and newsstand sales, New York's hometown glossies still eked out small circulation gains.
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NewsBulletin Connection, Media Decoder, Los Angeles Times and The Huffington Post
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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Magazine Newsstand Sales Still In Freefall — Did you forget to stop by the newsstand a few times last year? Don't worry; so did a lot of your fellow Americans. The ongoing decline in magazine single-copy sales accelerated in the second half of 2011, with the losses falling just short of double-digits …
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Folio
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
GOP Primary Show: Non-Stop News And Noise In The Age Of Twitter — Last week, Jon Ralston, a veteran Las Vegas Sun columnist, dared reporters to ignore Donald Trump's unveiling of his presidential endorsement — with low expectations about how that might play out.
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Poynter
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Julie Moos / Poynter:
Pew: Cable tops local TV news as source of campaign, election information — New research from the Pew Center for the People & the Press shows fewer Americans are closely following the 2012 election than in 2008, with significant drops in the percent of people — especially older adults …
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Why a Univision-ABC Partnership Might Make Sense — A long-brewing business plan between Univision and the Walt Disney Company's ABC News division to start an English-language cable news channel has been made public. Though no announcement appears to be imminent, the television-news industry is now abuzz over the possibilities.
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Media Money … and Company Town
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Lucy Battersby / Sydney Morning Herald:
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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VentureBeat and Crikey
Kevin Lincoln / Business Insider:
New York Observer Publisher Jared Kushner Might Buy The Dodgers — Jared Kushner — owner and publisher of the New York Observer, son-in-law of Donald Trump — is in the running to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Los Angeles Times reports. — If his bid went through, he would become the youngest owner in the MLB.
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Forbes, Los Angeles Times, FishbowlNY, FishbowlLA, New York Post and New York Magazine
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Sky News clamps down on Twitter use — Reporters banned from reposting non-company tweets and told to check with the news desk before breaking news stories — Sky News has told its journalists not to repost information from any Twitter users who are not an employee of the broadcaster.
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The Atlantic Wire, Poynter, FleetStreetBlues, @antderosa, @justinnxt, @wyredavies, @lheron, @robertmackey, The Next Web, @rosschawkins, @dansabbagh and @joshhalliday
Erik Wemple:
Four reasons why Ross Douthat's media-bias argument is bunk — In his piece in the New York Times's Sunday Review, op-ed columnist Ross Douthat is careful to establish his credibility in citing liberal media bias: … But not in this case! proclaims Douthat.
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Forbes, Mediaite, Media Matters for America, LifeNews.com, New York Times, The Huffington Post, Bloomberg and Media Research Center
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Dylan Stableford / Yahoo! News:
Media Research Center blasts networks for not covering Obama's ‘attack on religious freedom’
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mediabistro.com
Felix Salmon:
Elizabeth Spiers and the reinvented New York Observer — There are three main reasons that I like entering into bets with people. The first is, simply, that it's fun. The second is that I love to win bets. And the third is that I love to lose them. I don't ever trade the markets …
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bookforum.com, @espiers, The Corsair and Fimoculous.com
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Jeff Roberts / paidContent:
McClatchy Beats Earnings Forecasts, 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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MediaPost and The McClatchy Company
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Technology Review:
How to Predict The Spread of News on Twitter — Computer scientists have discovered the four factors that make news stories popular on Twitter — Twitter has revolutionised the way millions of people receive news and the type of news they get. So it's no surprise that there is huge interest …
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The FJP
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
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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