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Paul McNally / Journalism.co.uk:
Leveson: inquiry remains ‘committed to free press’ — Lord Justice Leveson responds to critics, saying inquiry ‘is doing no more than doing its mandated terms of reference’ — Lord Justice Leveson has responded to critics of his wide-ranging inquiry into press standards and insists he remains committed …
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Guardian
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Vikram Dodd / Guardian:
Brooks and Coulson ‘warned in 2006’
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Deadline.com, Guardian and Media Law Prof Blog
David Leigh / Guardian:
Sun had ‘culture of illegal payments to sources’
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Guardian, The Huffington Post, Press Gazette, Journalism.co.uk, Press Association, Reuters, @arusbridger, Press Association, Sky News and The Independent
Dominic Rushe / Guardian:
News Corp: threat of US legal action raised in light of ‘illegal payment’ claim
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Press Gazette
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Charlotte Church settles NoW phone-hacking claim for £600,000
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Reuters, Journalism.co.uk, Guardian, Associated Press, Telegraph, Press Gazette and TVWeek.com
TechCrunch:
Goodbye Erick, Hello Eric — TechCrunch has been through a lot lately, and we need to focus on what truly matters: covering startups and innovation. So, this post is going to be short. — But here is what's going on: Erick Schonfeld is leaving and Eric Eldon is replacing him as editor.
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Betabeat, PandoDaily, AOL Corp, AllThingsD and Business Insider
Quinn Norton / Wired:
Wikileaks Pairs with Anonymous to Publish Intelligence Firm's Dirty Laundry — In an unprecedented collaboration between Anonymous and WikiLeaks, the secret spilling site began leaking Sunday night portions of a massive trove of e-mails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor …
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Sonya Hubbard / footnoted.com:
Details about the Gray Lady's $25,000-per-hour consultant... When the New York Times' (NYT) and its president and former chief executive, Janet L. Robinson, announced a few months ago that Robinson would step down at the end of the year - even though no successor had been identified - the news caught many off guard.
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JIMROMENESKO.COM and Business Insider
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
FT Digital Subscriptions Surpass Print In U.S. As Sign-Ups Slow — The Financial Times is still signing up new digital subscribers, but at the slowest rate since iPad lit up its business model in mid-2010. — {data_set="29"} — It attracted 17,000 new digital subscribers in the final three months …
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NewsCred Blog, Talking Biz News and Press Gazette
David Carr / New York Times:
White House Uses Espionage Act to Pursue Leak Cases — Last Wednesday in the White House briefing room, the administration's press secretary, Jay Carney, opened on a somber note, citing the deaths of Marie Colvin and Anthony Shadid, two reporters who had died “in order to bring truth” while reporting in Syria.
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The Huffington Post and Prof Chris Daly's Blog
Felix Salmon:
Why journalists need to link — Jonathan Stray has a great essay up at Nieman Lab entitled “Why link out? Four journalistic purposes of the noble hyperlink”. I basically agree with all of it; links are wonderful things, and the more of them that we see in news stories …
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The Buttry Diary, Mother Jones, Guardian, One Man & His Blog and GigaOM
Inti Landauro / Wall Street Journal:
France Working on Plan to Evacuate Reporters in Syria — PARIS—French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Monday that “the beginning of a solution” was in sight to evacuate injured reporters from the besieged city of Homs in Syria, though he declined to give details while the process is continuing.
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Washington Post
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David Blair / Telegraph:
Syria: second bid to evacuate journalists fails
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Committee to Protect … and Sky News
Paul McNally / Journalism.co.uk:
Murdoch claims three million sale for Sun on Sunday launch — Sunday title launches with ‘decency’ vow to readers - as media commentators describe first edition as ‘bland’ — News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch has claimed a launch day circulation of more than three million for the first edition of the Sun on Sunday.
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Washington Post steps into paid content with iPad app for politics news — The new WP Politics iPad app, which launches Monday, marks The Washington Post's most significant attempt yet to charge readers for digital content. — The Post's website and most everything else it does digitally is free (ad-supported).
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Mixed Media, Washington Post, FishbowlDC, MediaPost, Daily Download and Mashable!
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
With Book, Buchanan Set His Fate — As the conservative polemicist Pat Buchanan prepared last fall for the release of his book “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?,” some friends who worked with him at MSNBC were worried. The book, they told him, would provoke controversy and threaten his professional well-being.
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TVNewser, Politico and Inside Cable News
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Pearson Sees Digital Income Beating Print Publishing In 2012 — Pearson's digital revenue grew 18 percent to £2 ($3.17) billion (a third of the total) through 2011, as its book publisher Penguin's e-book sales rose 106 percent and the group reached 43 million students through digital learning services.
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Media Week and Pearson
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
PolitiFact walks back second ruling in a month, this time on Rubio claim — PolitiFact has revised its piece from Feb. 14, which found U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio's contention that “the majority of Americans are conservatives” to be “Mostly True.” It's now “Half True.”
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Mediaite, The Huffington Post, Politico and @jayrosen_nyu
BuzzFeed:
Michael Hastings Joins BuzzFeed To Cover Obama Campaign — Social news leader BuzzFeed has hired Michael Hastings to cover President Barack Obama's re-election campaign. Hastings, a bestselling author and writer whose coverage of the war in Afghanistan has shaken the political and military establishment …
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The Huffington Post, Politico, FishbowlNY, @antderosa and Capital New York
Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:
Pinterest Becomes Top Traffic Driver for Women's Magazines — Pinterest hasn't just become a significant source of referral traffic for retailers; it's also becoming a top traffic driver for women's lifestyle, home decor and cooking magazines, some of which are seeing bigger referral numbers …
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FishbowlNY and Business Insider
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