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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
James Murdoch writes to MPs expressing regret over phone hacking — Former News International chairman restates his innocence and expresses ‘deep regret’ over the phone hacking scandal — James Murdoch has written to the parliamentary select committee investigating phone hacking to express his …
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Financial Times, The Huffington Post, Poynter, Capital New York, Erik Wemple, Media Decoder, @edmundlee and @lisaocarroll
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Neville Thurlbeck, former chief reporter of News of the World, is re-arrested — Operation Weeting officers re-arrest former NoW chief reporter, this time on suspicion of intimidation of a witness — Neville Thurlbeck, the former chief reporter of the News of the World, has been arrested on suspicion of intimidation of a witness.
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@fleetstreetfox:
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Believed he's accused of intimidating a witness with this: http://www.nevillethurlbeck.com/ ...
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@hughes_mark and @skymartinbrunt
Julie Bosman / Media Decoder:
After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses — After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print. — Those coolly authoritative, gold-lettered sets of reference books that were once sold door to door by a fleet of traveling salesmen and displayed …
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Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog, Poynter, PC Magazine, the Econsultancy blog, Reuters, ZDNet, Associated Press, Techland, Wall Street Journal, Bigmouthmedia Search …, Jacket Copy, Culture, The New Yorker Blog, Pocket-lint, Britannica Blog, WebProNews, @qthrul, Engadget, Gizmodo, New York Times, HTMLGIANT, ABCNEWS, MetaFilter, AllThingsD, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, Melville House Books, The Next Web, The Daily What and Mother Jones
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Encyclopedias are like journalism: It's better when they are open — Anyone who grew up with the Encyclopedia Britannica could be forgiven for getting a little misty-eyed about the legendary publication doing away with its printed version after more than two centuries, even if the move seems unsurprising (and more than a little late).
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Daggle, Guardian and Britannica Blog
Jim Romenesko:
A former Britannica editor on the print edition's demise — After reading the news about Encyclopaedia Britannica ending its print edition after 244 years, I asked former Britannica.com editor Charlie Madigan if he wanted to share his thoughts with Romenesko readers.
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Chicago Tribune, Britannica Blog, Los Angeles Times, ReadWriteWeb and Gawker
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
A Big Digital Kiss to Britannica: Change — It Is Okay (Look It Up!) — The folks over at Encyclopaedia Britannica posted today on to say they are discontinuing the 32-volume printed book edition of the invaluable information resource “when our current inventory is gone.”
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Media Decoder, TechCrunch and GalleyCat
Greg Sandoval / CNET:
Web TV service Aereo lives—no injunctions in sight — The streaming service that delivers over-the-air TV broadcasts went live today, though ABC, CBS, NBC, and other networks sued to try to stop the launch. — One of Aereo's tiny antennas. — New Yorkers can watch live broadcast TV via the Web, starting today.
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Wired and Shelly Palmer Digital Living
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Ben Popper / VentureBeat:
As legal battle with TV networks escalates, Aereo launches in New York. We tested the service. It rocks — I'm sitting in my office (by which I mean my kitchen) watching Rachel Ray on my iPad and Kathy Lee on my laptop. These aren't clips or day or old episodes.
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Multichannel, NetNewsCheck Latest and Broadcasting & Cable
BBC:
Cyber-attack on BBC leads to suspicion of Iran's involvement — The BBC is not providing detail of the timing or nature of the cyber-attack — A “sophisticated cyber-attack” on the BBC has been linked to Iran's efforts to disrupt the BBC Persian Service.
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Naked Security, BBC College of Journalism Blog and Voice of America
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Jeffrey Goldfarb / Reuters:
New York Times pay structure isn't fit to print — The New York Times Co's pay structure isn't fit to print. The venerable U.S. newspaper group revealed a bonus structure that rewards bosses with 175 percent of their target payouts for achieving a mere 2.5 percent return on invested capital.
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
NewsRight lands its first licensing deal — Two months after opening for business, NewsRight, the news licensing agency created by the Associated Press and 28 other news organizations, has its first client. — It's not Huffington Post or Google News or Flipboard.
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paidContent and The Wrap
Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
Police release six arrested by Operation Weeting on bail — All six people arrested by Operation Weeting on Tuesday, reported to include Rebekah Brooks and her husband, have now been released on bail — Metropolitan police said all six have been bailed ‘to return pending further inquiries’ in April
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Huffington Post UK, journalism.co.uk, Guardian, Guardian and Telegraph
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BSkyB probe to include Netflix and LoveFilm — Competition Commission extends deadline for final report until July to to take into account changes in the movie market — BSkyB's battle to retain its stranglehold on Hollywood films on pay-TV has been given a potential boost …
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paidContent:UK, The Next Web, Pocket-lint, Deadline.com and MCV: Home Stream
Kurt Opsahl / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Court Declares Newspaper Excerpt on Online Forum is a Non-Infringing Fair Use — Late Friday, the federal district court in Nevada issued a declaratory judgment that makes is harder for copyright holders to file lawsuits over excerpts of material and burden online forums and their users with nuisance lawsuits.
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The Raw Story, Wired, Boing Boing and Righthaven Victims