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Vikram Dodd / Guardian:
Brooks and Coulson ‘warned in 2006’ — • Police source ‘told then Sun editor of around 100 victims’ — • Records ‘suggested NI had paid Glenn Mulcaire over £1m’ — • Email submitted to Leveson inquiry reveals Coulson briefing — Both Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson …
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Deadline.com, Guardian and Media Law Prof Blog
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David Leigh / Guardian:
Sun had ‘culture of illegal payments to sources’ — Sue Akers tells media ethics inquiry of newspaper's payment systems that hid identities of ‘network of corrupted officials’ — Read Sue Akers's full statement here (pdf) — Hours after Rupert Murdoch's defiant gamble of launching …
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Guardian, Press Association, Press Gazette, The Huffington Post, The Wrap, Journalism.co.uk, Reuters, Sky News, @arusbridger and The Independent
Paul McNally / Journalism.co.uk:
Leveson: inquiry remains ‘committed to free press’
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Guardian
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Charlotte Church settles NoW phone-hacking claim for £600,000
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Guardian, Reuters, Press Gazette, Journalism.co.uk, Associated Press, Telegraph and TVWeek.com
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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Gawker, New York Magazine, TPM Idea Lab, Guardian, GigaOM, WebProNews, PC Magazine, Mashable!, The Corsair, ITProPortal, New York Times, Softpedia News and Boing Boing
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Steve Huff / Betabeat:
[UPDATED] Anonymous Teams With Wikileaks To Publish Confidential Stratfor Emails in ‘The Global Intelligence Files’
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VentureBeat, WikiLeaks, Forbes, The Firewall, The Yes Men Blog, Guardian, The FJP, CNET, The New York Observer, ZDNet, Techland, Journalism.co.uk, ReadWriteWeb, CNET, The Huffington Post and Gizmodo
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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Folio, NetNewsCheck Latest, Press Gazette and Talking Biz News
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, GigaOM and TeleRead
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.
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
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
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
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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FishbowlDC, MediaPost, Washington Post and Mashable!
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, Capital New York and @antderosa
Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
NPR Tries to Get its Pressthink Right — It now commits itself to avoiding the worst excesses of “he said, she said” journalism. It says to itself that a report characterized by false balance is a false report. It introduces a new and potentially powerful concept of fairness: being “fair to the truth.”
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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The Huffington Post and @jayrosen_nyu
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