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8:45 AM ET, March 28, 2012

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Frontline:
Murdoch's Scandal  —  FRONTLINE goes inside the struggle over the future of News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch's reputation and his family's fortune.
Discussion: Vanity Fair
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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 …
Discussion: Reuters
Press Gazette:
Thurlbeck: Phone-hacking was rife across Fleet Street  —  Former News of the World chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck has said be believes phone-call interception - or “hacking” - was rife at every national newspaper in the 1980s and early 1990s.  Thurlbeck, who was arrested on suspicion …
Michael White / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch: a man of prices, not values
Neil Chenoweth / Australian Financial Review:
Free to air: dirty tricks broadcast for all to see
Discussion: @edgecliffe
Neil Chenoweth / Australian Finance Review:   Whistleblower made to change his tune
James Cusick / The Independent:   From Sicily to the US courts - the trail of evidence could hit Murdoch where it hurts
ArabSaga:
Have two more journalists been killed in Syria?  —  Syrian security forces reportedly killed Monday two independent journalists of Algerian origin but holding British citizenship in Idlib province, where they were filming a documentary on the Syrian uprising.
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Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
Two British freelance journalists killed in Syria, CPJ reports
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 …
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Elana Zak / 10,000 Words:   How The Wall Street Journal Uses Pinterest
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.
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 …
Discussion: PRWeb
Kevin Roderick / LA Observed:
OC Register plans to “news mob” the Angels opener  —  The Orange County Register is really, really officially excited about the Angels season opening on April 6.  Sure, it has happened every April for 51 years already.  But this year the team has arguably baseball's biggest star in Albert Pujols.
Discussion: eMedia Vitals and FishbowlLA
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 …
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.
Discussion: MediaShift Idea Lab
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 …
Discussion: Business Insider
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
What book publishers should learn from Harry Potter  —  After months of anticipation, the e-book versions of author J.K. Rowling's phenomenally successful Harry Potter series are now available through Rowling's Pottermore online unit, and as my PaidContent colleague Laura Owen has noted …
 
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Discussion: Philly.com
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Discussion: bookforum.com
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Boston Globe Launches ‘ePaper,’ Brings Digital Replica of Print to iPad, iPod
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CT Man Sues Journalist, NBC Universal for Libel
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HuffPo Co-Founder Ken Lerer's Stealthy Startup Aims at CNN, Fox
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Discussion: Capital New York
 

 
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Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
Sources: EU regulators are planning to fine Apple under the DMA, after it failed to let developers steer users to cheaper deals and offers outside the App Store

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
The Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% of its employees and tells staff in an email that it is eliminating its advocacy and global programs divisions

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Interpol says a global operation has taken down over 22,000 malicious IP addresses or servers linked to cyber threats and led to the arrest of 41 individuals

 
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