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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
News International misses deadline to file its accounts — News International has failed to meet the Companies House deadline to file its accounts and has asked for a month's extension. — The company, which trades under the name of NI Group Ltd, made the request following its failure …
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NPR, AllThingsD and AllThingsD
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Michael Wolff / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch's American media immunity
Rupert Murdoch's American media immunity
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FishbowlNY and Nieman Journalism Lab
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
DPP says there was ‘pushback’ from Met over hacking investigation
DPP says there was ‘pushback’ from Met over hacking investigation
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Journalism.co.uk
Lucy Manning / ITV:
Report likely to accuse hacking witnesses of misleading parliament
Report likely to accuse hacking witnesses of misleading parliament
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Media Decoder:
New Philly Owners to Bring Back Marimow as Editor — William K. Marimow, who served as top editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer from 2006 to 2010, will rejoin the paper in the same role in a move that is expected to be announced this afternoon. — His appointment comes days …
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Poynter, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Philly.com, JIMROMENESKO.COM and Off Mic
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Paul Nussbaum / Philly.com:
PMN's new owners meet the employees, discuss the future — In an informal session Tuesday with newspaper and website employees, three new owners of Philadelphia Media Network reiterated their plans to make long-term investments in the media company to improve its financial and journalistic prospects.
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JIMROMENESKO.COM
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
New high score: How the NYT created its “stupid game” — When Jon Huang was younger he was the type of kid who spent his time making mods for Duke Nukem 3D. So it makes a kind of sense he's now turned The New York Times into its own kind of shoot 'em up. — Huang was the multimedia producer behind …
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Co.Create, FishbowlNY and The Huffington Post
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Steve Myers / Poynter:
Stupid game lets you destroy parts of NYT story about stupid games — The Times has figured out a great way to increase time-on-site (and destroy our productivity) by illustrating a story about our obsession with “stupid games” with a game that lets you shoot and destroy parts of its website.
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New York Times, Mediaite, The 6th Floor, Betabeat, Engadget and AllThingsD
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Reuters editor in chief received $2.7 million in 2011 — Stephen J. Adler, the editor in chief of Reuters, received total compensation of $2.7 million in 2011, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. — Adler, who joined the company in 2010 after a stint as editor …
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David Barboza / New York Times:
Flattering News Coverage Has a Price in China — SHANGHAI — China is notorious for censoring politically delicate news coverage. But it is more than willing to let flattering news about Western and Asian businesses appear in print and broadcast media — if the price is right.
Discussion:
Reason and Media Decoder
Marc Berman / New York Post:
Keith needed ‘Diva’ limos e-mails reveal — Liberal bloviator Keith Olbermann spent his last days at Current TV driving colleagues nuts with rants about “smelly” drivers who had the audacity to talk to him, according to startling e-mails obtained by The Post.
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Capital New York, Hollywood Reporter and Mediaite
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Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
Olbermann on Joining Current TV: 'I Didn't Think the Whole Thing Through'
Olbermann on Joining Current TV: 'I Didn't Think the Whole Thing Through'
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NPR, mediabistro.com, TVNewser and New York Magazine
Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:
Reed Hastings Will Get His HBO Go as Comcast Nears Deal on Xbox — Updated Comcast and HBO are close to finalizing a deal to make the HBO Go app available on Xbox, according to several people familiar with the negotiations. — The app, which offers all of the pay cable channel's shows …
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Multichannel and The Verge
Jim Romenesko:
Gannett announces 2Q furloughs for USA Today employees — Gannett community publishing division president Bob Dickey tells his employees that “I am happy to announce USCP [U.S. community publishing] will not institute furloughs in the second quarter.”
Discussion:
Politico
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
New ASNE figures show percentage of minorities in newspaper newsrooms continues to decline — The number of minorities in the U.S. is growing, but in newspaper newsrooms it continues to creep downward. — New ASNE figures show that the percentage of minorities in newsrooms is now 12.32 percent.
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Jon Slattery, rjionline.org, Gannett Blog and Reflections of a Newsosaur
Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Zite, CNN Launch Publisher Program To Ease Cease-And-Desist Concerns — Last April Fools' Day, publishers from Time Inc. to the Washington Post Company sent fast-growing startup Zite an aggressive cease-and-desist letter. The publishers weren't joking, accusing Zite's app …
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Adweek, GigaOM, Poynter, CNET and VentureBeat
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Instapaper, Readability and monetizing other people's content — There's been a minor furor brewing in the digital-content sphere over the past few days involving Readability, an app and web service that allows readers to save content from any website and read it later …
Discussion:
Melville House Books and The Brooks Review
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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Yahoo Cuts 2,000 Jobs in ‘Urgent’ Restructuring — Purple people eater? (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) — The anticipated wave of layoffs at Yahoo has arrived, and it's as big as promised. — The Sunnywale, Calif.-based internet giant announced plans to eliminate 2,000 jobs, or about 14% of its workforce of 14,000.
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Adweek, AllThingsD, BBC, Yahoo! Pressroom Home, Forbes and mnilive.com
Dan Zak / Washington Post:
Woodward and Bernstein: Could the Web generation uncover a Watergate-type scandal? — The gabby, gray-haired grand poobahs of journalism sprang from the back flaps of their book jackets onto a real-life panel Tuesday afternoon in the air-conditioned guts of the Marriott Wardman Park …
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