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Will Rahn / The Daily Caller:
Media Matters tax-exempt status may face new scrutiny from Congress — Congressional Republicans are now interested in examining the Media Matters For America's tax-exempt status, The Daily Caller has learned. Doing so would cause the GOP to wade into the complex world of tax laws that govern …
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Jack Shafer:
Media Madders — The “investigative series” that the conservative Daily Caller commenced this week about the liberal media watchdog outfit Media Matters for America and its founder David Brock accomplishes the impossible: It makes me sympathize with Media Matters and Brock.
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The Daily Caller, Big Journalism, Erik Wemple and FishbowlDC
Erik Wemple:
Fox News and the art of media-timing
Fox News and the art of media-timing
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Gawker, The Daily Caller and Big Journalism
BBC:
Glenn Mulcaire granted evidence appeal — Glenn Mulcaire was jailed in 2007 for six months for phone hacking — The Supreme Court has ruled it will decide whether private investigator Glenn Mulcaire must reveal which journalists asked him to hack phones.
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Katherine Rushton / Telegraph:
James Murdoch name tied to News Corp scandal — James Murdoch's name is “inextricably linked” with News Corporation's failure to deal properly with phone hacking at News International, an influential shareholder group has claimed, adding that the arrests at the Sun signalled a “new phase” in the growing scandal.
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
News International staff demand openness over internal investigation unit
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
News Corp inquiry team defends policy over police disclosures
News Corp inquiry team defends policy over police disclosures
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The Huffington Post, Capital New York, The Independent and Guardian
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
News Corp. Without Newspapers Would Be Addition by Subtraction
News Corp. Without Newspapers Would Be Addition by Subtraction
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CJR
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Puzzazz brings ebook handwriting recognition to the Kindle Touch — Redmond-based startup Puzzazz is bringing handwriting recognition to Amazon's Kindle Touch device. The company's TouchWrite technology recognizes handwriting and converts it into numbers and letters on the Kindle.
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Did the AP just declare war on news aggregators? — Like virtually every other traditional news entity, the Associated Press newswire has been under pressure for some time from digital media — but this disruption has been even worse for AP and its ilk because they are primarily distributors …
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CNN, NetNewsCheck Latest, 10,000 Words and TechCrunch Europe, more at Techmeme »
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Jeff Roberts / paidContent:
Fair Use Or Free Riding? The AP's New Attack On News Scraping
Fair Use Or Free Riding? The AP's New Attack On News Scraping
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Media News, MediaPost and Associated Press
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Interviews: Meltwater Appeals UK Web News Fees As Both Sides Claim Victory
Interviews: Meltwater Appeals UK Web News Fees As Both Sides Claim Victory
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Guardian, FishbowlNY and Poynter
Keach Hagey / Politico:
Fox News ‘course correction’ rankles some — As a white, male, middle-aged conservative talk radio host from Virginia, John Fredericks is something close to the Platonic ideal of a Fox News fan. — And until last year, he was one. But then Fox's treatment of the Republican primary race …
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TVNewser
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Times and Sunday Times digital sales power ahead — The Times now has 119,255 digital subscribers, with the Sunday Times claiming 113,818 - according to figures issued by News International last night. — The figures show that there has been continual digital subscriber growth at The Times …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
UK Seize Popular Music Blog, Arrest Operators and Threaten Readers — Founded in 2008, RnBXclusive.com quickly became one of the most popular R&B / hip hop blogs. With over a quarter million fans on Facebook it was the go-to destination for many music fans.
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Techdirt, The Verge, ZDNet and WebProNews, more at Techmeme »
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Dan Loeb Recruits Former NBC Boss Jeff Zucker for His Raid on Yahoo — Here's Dan Loeb's formal declaration of war against the old guard at Yahoo, along with his list of allies. — The activist shareholder wants four of Yahoo's board seats, one of which he wants to occupy himself.
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mediabistro.com, MediaPost, The Wrap, Media News, DealBook, CNET and Business Insider, more at Techmeme »
Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:
Some best-guesses about what BuzzFeed is up to, and why it is in fact about Arianna, a little — In all the conversation about BuzzFeed, two questions and answers get repeated over and over again. But I don't think the answers have been quite right—for a mixture of reasons, probably.
Brad Wolverton / Chronicle of Higher Education:
The NCAA Wades Into a War of Words — Stung by an outspoken critic, the association dishes back—and it's gotten personal — “Last week, I described the NCAA as a cartel. Turns out, it's a Star Chamber, too,” the columnist Joe Nocera has written in “The New York Times.”
Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:
PBS lets iOS users see new documentary before it airs on TV — The Public Broadcasting Station (PBS) has decided to rip a page out of HBO's book by giving iPad and iPhone owners early access to its exclusive video content before it debuts to the rest of the world.
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The Verge