Mediagazer: Investor group's offer for PMN: $60 million (Mike Armstrong/Philly.com)

10:05 AM ET, March 28, 2012

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Matt Siegel / New York Times:

Murdoch's News Ltd. Rejects TV Piracy Claim in Australia — SYDNEY — Rupert Murdoch's embattled media empire found itself facing fresh controversy on Wednesday, after an Australian newspaper published an investigative report alleging that News Corporation had engaged a special unit …

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Michael White / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch: a man of prices, not values

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Neil Chenoweth / Australian Finance Review: Whistleblower made to change his tune

Mike Armstrong / Philly.com:

Investor group's offer for PMN: $60 million — A group of local investors reportedly has offered to pay $60 million to acquire the parent company of The Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly.com. — Those investors, led by businessman Lewis Katz and insurance executive …

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Associated Press:
Perelman Drops out of Philly Newspaper Group

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Committee to Protect Journalists:

Two independent journalists killed in Syria — Syrian security forces shot and killed two freelance British journalists of Algerian descent and wounded a third during an attack on Monday in the town of Darkoush near the Turkish border, according to news reports and a witness interviewed by CPJ.

Discussion: The Journalism Foundation

Elizabeth Flock / Washington Post:

Are Syrian citizen journalists embellishing the truth? — International assistance for Syria became more likely Tuesday after Syria's government said it had accepted a United Nations plan to halt the violence and forge a political solution, The Post's Alice Fordham reports.

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Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
Two British freelance journalists killed in Syria, CPJ reports

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Michael Wolff / Guardian:

Mobile and the news media's imploding business model — Smartphones will soon be the primary news source for most Americans. That's if anyone can still make money by reporting — Pew research has a new survey showing that tablets and smart phones are now 27% of Americans' primary news source.

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Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:

University of Texas Student Paper Wins ‘Most Racist Trayvon Martin Cartoon’ Contest — Here's cartoonist Stephanie Eisner's latest political cartoon published in the Daily Texan, the student paper at the University of Texas- Austin. You can see “The Media” there, telling its lies again …

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Peter Osnos / The Atlantic Online:

Even Old Media Institutions Are Acting Like New Media — 60 Minutes has online games. The Wall Street Journal and The Times produce hours of video per day. Legacy publications have embraced social media. — The loyalty of baby boomers to print publications tends to be deeply rooted …

Steven Waldman / CJR:

News Organizations That Lobby Against Their Own Reporters' Interests — Media companies are fighting political transparency while their reporters demand it — The battle playing out over a new government transparency proposal has taken a turn that should concern journalists.

Dino Grandoni / The Atlantic Wire:

Top 100 Apps in the iPad's Newsstand Bring in $70,000 a Day Combined — iPads are often heralded as the future of newspapers and magazines, which may very well be true, but be sure to remember that journalism in tablet-form is still pretty young. Case in point: news apps on the iPad still …

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Corporation for Public Broadcasting gives NPR $500,000 for foreign news coverage — The money, announced last night as NPR journalist Lourdes Garcia-Navarro was honored with an Edward R. Murrow award, “will help support journalists and producers stationed across five key NPR foreign bureaus …

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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Bidding war for Smith book could hit $1M — Former Goldman Sachs executive Greg Smith, who resigned this month via a scathing op-ed in the New York Times, has triggered a media bidding war for his memoir of life inside the belly of the Wall Street beast. One top editor said he believed …

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