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Telegraph:
Marie Colvin killed: Syrian forces had pledged to kill ‘any journalist who set foot on Syrian soil’ — Syrian forces murdered journalist Marie Colvin after pledging to kill “any journalist who set foot on Syrian soil”, it has emerged. — The 55-year-old Sunday Times reporter …
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The Daily What and @ramsaysky
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New York Times:
Two Western Journalists Killed in Syria Shelling — CAIRO — Two Western journalists, one American and one French, were killed early Wednesday as forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad pursued a deadly bombardment of the central city of Homs, according to activists and officials.
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Michael Rundle / The Huffington Post - UK:
Syrian Minister ‘Unaware Foreign Journalists Were In Country’ After Deadly Shelling — Syria has said they were unaware foreign journalists were in the country after an American and French journalist were killed on Wednesday. Marie Colvin, a veteran correspondent for the Sunday Times …
Reuters:
U.S., French journalists killed in Syria — (Reuters) - Two Western journalists were killed in the besieged Syrian city of Homs on Wednesday when shells hit the house they were staying in, opposition activists and witnesses said. — They were named as Marie Colvin, an American working …
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Erika Solomon / Reuters:
Syria asks foreign journalists to report to government
Syria asks foreign journalists to report to government
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@producermatthew
Maev Kennedy / Guardian:
David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Rupert Murdoch pay tribute to Marie Colvin
David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Rupert Murdoch pay tribute to Marie Colvin
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The Huffington Post and The Journalism Foundation
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Cherie Blair to sue News International — Tony Blair's wife to take action against Glenn Mulcaire and NI over the alleged hacking of her phone by News of the World — Cherie Blair, the wife of the former prime minister, is suing News International and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire …
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Church hacking case ‘not resolved’ — Despite reports of settlement of up to £500,000, star's manager says talks with News of the World publisher are still ongoing — Charlotte Church has not yet settled her phone-hacking case against Rupert Murdoch's defunct tabloid the News of the World …
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Bloomberg
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Gannett Building Paywalls Around All Its Papers Except USA Today — The vogue for digital paywalls sweeping the news business has made it all the way to the top: Gannett, the nation's largest newspaper publisher, is planning to switch over all of its 80 community newspapers to a paid model …
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10,000 Words
Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:
FT facing discrimination claims and strike action — The Financial Times is facing an employment tribunal over discrimination allegations involving journalists working on the Chinese version of the FT website, according to the NUJ. — It is also facing the possibility of strike action on Friday in a separate dispute over pay.
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Whitney Houston Funeral Drew Millions on TV and Online — Millions of television and Web viewers spent time Saturday afternoon watching the funeral service for Whitney Houston, the pop music icon who died a week earlier. — CNN was the biggest beneficiary of the viewer vigil, according to Nielsen ratings.
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The Wrap, FishbowlNY, Capital New York, TVNewser, Multichannel, Chickaboomer and Mediaite
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John Glenday / The Drum:
BBC Whitney Houston coverage criticised
Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
TBS Extends ‘Conan’ Through 2014 — The cable channel TBS announced on Wednesday that it had extended its contract with Conan O'Brien to star in the late-night series he began on the network in November 2010. — The new agreement, which amounted to picking up an existing option …
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rbr.com and Broadcasting & Cable
Jim Romenesko:
Zach Seward leaves WSJ for Atlantic Media — Zach Seward, who left Nieman Journalism Lab to join the Wall Street Journal's web team in December of 2009, has been named a senior editor for Atlantic Media's new global business brand, which launches later this year.
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@sdkstl
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Amazon Yanks 5,000 Kindle IPG Titles In Fight Over Terms — Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has turned off the buy button on nearly 5,000 Kindle titles from distributor Independent Publishers Group after IPG refused to capitulate to Amazon's demand for better terms. — The story was first reported …
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Publishers Lunch
Vanity Fair:
Reed Hastings on Netflix's Recent Rise and Fall — Still bloodied by one of the worst self-inflicted corporate disasters in recent memory—last year's $12 billion wipeout—Netflix C.E.O. Reed Hastings remains adamant about his goal: moving from red envelopes to streaming video.
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Home Media Magazine
Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
FRICTION AT AOL: Arianna Is A Huge ‘Headache’... But Also The Most Valuable Person At AOL — A year after AOL acquired The Huffington Post for $350 million, sources say AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is getting frustrated with working with Arianna Huffington, who became President at AOL after the deal.
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FishbowlNY and mediabistro.com
Tim Carmody / Epicenter:
Comcast's ‘Mini-Hulu Plus’ Offers Full TV Seasons to Go for $5/Month — On Tuesday, Comcast announced Xfinity Streampix, a new subscription video service for computers and mobile devices offering additional movies and full seasons of television shows. Streampix will launch this week …
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Comcast Voices, Comcast and Fortune
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Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
Comcast gives subscribers one more reason to quit Netflix
Comcast gives subscribers one more reason to quit Netflix
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rbr.com, Company Town, Media Decoder, Home Media Magazine, Adweek, PC Magazine, Forbes, Variety and CNET
Jason Fry / Poynter:
How ESPN published “Chink in the Armor” Jeremy Lin headline & what's happened since — The rise of Jeremy Lin, the New York Knicks' Asian-American star, has been one of 2012's feel-good sports stories. But it's come with an unwelcome undercurrent: racial references by fans …
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Epicenter, Riptide 2.0 and Guardian
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Jeremy Greenfield / Digital Book World:
Jeremy Lin Hits E-Bookshelves With Quick Turnaround Book, Linsanity
Jeremy Lin Hits E-Bookshelves With Quick Turnaround Book, Linsanity
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Fast Company, CNET, GalleyCat, Capital New York and mediabistro.com