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Michael Wolff / Guardian:
The logic of a Thomson Reuters takeover of the Financial Times — It makes sense: the two titans of business information, Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg, competing for a great news brand — Let me follow a rumor in real time ... My lunch companion, a senior executive at Thomson Reuters …
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Talking Biz News
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Kevin Lincoln / Business Insider:
Reuters And Bloomberg Are Jockeying To Acquire The Financial Times — Michael Wolff — Two titans of international news, Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters, both would like to acquire pink British newspaper the Financial Times, according to Michael Wolff in The Guardian.
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Piers Morgan and Trinity Mirror journalist implicated by Mills at Leveson — Former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan and an un-named former Trinity Mirror journalist were implicated by evidence from Heather Mills to the hacking inquiry today. — The former wife of Paul McCartney revealed …
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Journalism.co.uk and Guardian
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Greg Farrell / Business Week:
Dinner at Rupert's — What happened on the fateful night last May when Rupert Murdoch decided how News Corp. would manage its phone-hacking scandal? — An artist's imagining of the dinner at Murdoch's townhouse based on multiple attendees' accounts — Photo illustration by Justin Metz
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The Corsair
Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:
Edmondson: ‘bullying’ at NoW under Coulson and Myler — Former News of the World editor Colin Myler oversaw a culture of bullying at the newspaper, according to former news editor Ian Edmondson. Edmondson, who is involved in an employment tribunal against his former employer News International …
Owen Bowcott / Guardian:
NightJack blogger to sue the Times
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Telegraph, The Independent and Guardian
NY Daily News:
‘Good Day’ co-anchor Greg Kelly to return to Channel 5 Friday morning — Had been off the air since Jan. 26 following rape allegations — Above, Greg Kelly seen Wednesday afternoon for the first time since a 28-year-old paralegal accused him of rape. Kelly will return to ‘Good Day New York’ on Friday.
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New York Post, New York Magazine and Chickaboomer
Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:
WaPo Evasive on Important Buyout Question — What if WaPo doesn't reach the necessary maximum number of voluntary buyouts? — Some who attended the Town Hall style meetings yesterday at the newspaper found Exec. Editor Marcus Brauchli's comments too vague for comfort on this point.
Julie Moos / Poynter:
CNN's Roland Martin agrees to meet with GLAAD after homophobic tweets — Just hours after he was suspended from CNN for homophobic tweets sent during the Super Bowl, Roland Martin said he would meet with the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), which had been pushing for his firing since Sunday.
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The Huffington Post, The Wrap, GLAAD, Big Journalism, Media Law Prof Blog and msnbc.com
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
CNN's Roland Martin suspended for homophobic tweets
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entertainment.time.com, The Huffington Post, The Week, TVNewser, Erik Wemple, The Wall Blog, The Big Lead, Mediaite, Media Decoder, The Daily Caller, New York Magazine, Reuters, Yahoo! News, Gothamist, Mediaite, FishbowlDC, ShortFormBlog, Big Journalism, The Huffington Post, Politico, Poynter, Inside Cable News and The Raw Story
Alfred Hermida / reportr.net:
Why Journalists Should Break News on Twitter — The world of journalism and Twitter is buzzing following Sky News's new policy on Twitter and the BBC's new guidance on breaking news. — Both organisations have told their journalists not to break news on Twitter. Instead news should be first sent to the newsroom.
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Guy Fawkes' blog and Guardian
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
To the BBC and others: Twitter is not your competition
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Future of Journalism
Sam Laird / Mashable!:
ESPN's ‘Complain About Women’ Option Exposed by Twitter User — Until Tuesday, ESPN had a special section on its website for viewers to complain specifically about announcers who happen to be female. — “Commentator — dislike female commentators,” read one option in a drop-down menu …
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Poynter, Deadspin and The Big Lead
Tim Carmody / Epicenter:
GigaOM Acquires PaidContent: Interview With GigaOM CEO Paul Walborsky — GigaOM founder and executive editor Om Malik. Photo by Pinar Ozger, courtesy GigaOM — PaidContent.org is one of the longest-running news organizations chronicling the rise of new media.
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10,000 Words, PRWeb, eMedia Vitals and AdAge
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Mike Huckabee to Begin Radio Show — Rush Limbaugh will soon have a new radio rival: Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor who ran for the Republican presidential nomination four years ago and thought about running again this year. — Instead, he will be running a radio show weekdays …
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TVNewser, Media Decoder and Washington Post
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Nielsen: Cord Cutting And Internet TV Viewing On The Rise — According to a new report from Nielsen, the number of U.S. homes that have broadband Internet, but only free, broadcast TV, is on the rise. Although representing less than 5% of TV households, the number has grown 22.8% over the past year.
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MediaPost and NetNewsCheck Latest, more at Techmeme »
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
News Corp.'s PhoneGate Tab Keeps Rising — News Corp. says investigations into the PhoneGate scandal cost it $87 million in the last quarter. That's on top of a $91 million charge the company took when it shuttered the News of the World in the previous quarter.
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Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
News Corp. Q2 Profit Rises on Higher TV Fees
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Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Company Town and Multichannel
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp. Reports 71 Percent Quarterly Profit Gain
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@benfenton and New York Magazine
New York Post:
Bradley Manning arraignment scheduled for Feb. 23 — WASHINGTON — Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of leaking confidential US diplomatic and military cables to WikiLeaks, will be arraigned Feb. 23, the military announced Thursday. — Manning has been charged with aiding the enemy …
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