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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Blog post prompted Thurlbeck ‘witness intimidation’ arrest — Former News of the World chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck was arrested yesterday and questioned for six hours after a posting on his blog which revealed News Corp general manager Will Lewis's home address.
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Neville Thurlbeck and Press Gazette
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Scotsman:
Evidence from former top auditor at Scotland Yard is delayed after force complaint — SCOTLAND Yard's former head auditor has had his Leveson Inquiry appearance postponed after the force complained he was being allowed to air “very serious” allegations about top officers in public.
Discussion:
London Evening Standard and Telegraph
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Trinity Mirror suffers 40% fall in profits — Newspaper publisher to cut pension fund payments as profits fall to £74m — Trinity Mirror has reported a 40% fall in pre-tax profits to £74m for 2011, and agreed to cut pension fund payments by almost £70m as the publisher's pension deficit ballooned by almost half.
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Press Gazette
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Trinity Mirror invests £10m in daily deals website — Trinity Mirror, which reported a 40% profits fall today, is moving into the online daily deals sector. — It is launching an online daily deals business called “happli”, which enables people who register with its website to buy discounted goods.
Discussion:
Press Gazette
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Newspaper advertising was down 7.3 percent, almost $2 billion, in 2011 — The Newspaper Association of America has posted its final tally of newspaper advertising statistics for 2011, and as expected, it is not a pretty picture. — Total advertising revenue was down 7.3 percent, a percentage point worse than in 2010.
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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CNN, Digital Spy, Guardian, Washington Post, WebProNews, Culture, Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog and Media Decoder
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Britannica Blog:
Change: It's Okay. Really.
Change: It's Okay. Really.
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PandoDaily, New York Times, Wired, Los Angeles Times, Techland, Softpedia News, Chicago Tribune, Media Decoder, paidContent:UK, Bigmouthmedia Search …, ReadWriteWeb, GalleyCat, Business Insider, Daggle, ZDNet, Mashable!, the Econsultancy blog, TechCrunch, TeleRead, JIMROMENESKO.COM, CNNMoney.com and Poynter
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Charlie Rose and the Truth About Unpaid Media Interns — A lawsuit filed today against PBS host Charlie Rose and his production company hinges on a few simple questions: Are college-age interns in publishing and broadcasting unpaid employees or students? Are they rendering valuable services …
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Steven Greenhouse / Media Decoder:
Former Intern at ‘Charlie Rose’ Sues, Alleging Wage Law Violations
Former Intern at ‘Charlie Rose’ Sues, Alleging Wage Law Violations
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Deadline.com and The Huffington Post
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
The Daily Has an Angry Birds App — And the Start of a Custom Publishing Business — Hey! You like Angry Birds, right? Of course you do. So you'll enjoy reading about Angry Birds, via a new, free iOS app about the newest iteration of the game, produced by The Daily. (An Android version is in the works.)
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NetNewsCheck Latest, Pocket-lint, ZDNet and Softpedia News
Jim Hopkins / Gannett Blog:
Memo: Gannett establishing national news desk — USA Today Executive Editor Susan Weiss forwarded the following memo to staff yesterday. It came a day before many U.S. journalists were to participate in a Web conference on the future of wire news. My question: Does this spell the beginning …
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@romenesko and @mattderienzo
Dylan Byers / Politico:
NBC pulls Ron Paul's last embed — A couple weeks back I noted that Ron Paul, the lonely delegate hunter, had only one full-time, embedded reporter on his trail: Anthony Terrell of NBC News. Other reporters have provided some coverage of the candidate, but for the last few weeks Terrell was the only proverbial boy on the bus.
Discussion:
Hit & Run, Runnin' Scared and Mediaite
Steve Smith / minonline.com:
Will The New iPad Display Put Digital Mags On A Crash Diet? — For magazine publishers the next-gen iPad's “Retina Display” raises an interesting math problem. The doubling of resolution and pixel density opens up worlds of opportunity for crafting even more luscious visual experiences.
Nat Ives / AdAge:
Magazines' Newsstand Slide Smaller in Canada — But That May Be Good News for U.S. Publishers — Magazines have long blamed their continuing newsstand declines on everything from gas prices to store layouts — everything but demand for magazines themselves.
John Plunkett / Guardian:
BBC boss confirms TV download pay service — Mark Thompson says Project Barcelona will allow viewers to purchase programmes permanently just after they are broadcast — BBC director general Mark Thompson has confirmed plans for an iTunes-style download service that will allow viewers …
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Journalism.co.uk, NetNewsCheck Latest, Pocket-lint, The Next Web, BBC, The Wall Blog and Engadget
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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The Newspaper Guild
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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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paidContent, SlashGear, Multichannel and Broadcasting & Cable
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Greg Sandoval / CNET:
Web TV service Aereo lives—no injunctions in sight
Web TV service Aereo lives—no injunctions in sight
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Media Money …, Wired and Shelly Palmer Digital Living