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Steve Fishman / New York Magazine:
The Tabloid Turncoat — Colin Myler, the Daily News' new editor, knows his enemies at Rupert Murdoch's New York Post. Maybe too well. — Five years ago, Colin Myler, now the editor of the Daily News, received a message from Rupert Murdoch's people. At the time, Myler, a square-faced Brit, was a top editor at Murdoch's Post.
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Guardian:
Myler's role at NY Daily News under scrutiny — Allegations made that Myler, when News of the World editor, told reporters to dig for dirt on MPs investigating phone hacking — Colin Myler's editorship of the New York Daily News, one of the most prominent newspapers in America …
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New York Magazine, FishbowlNY and Capital New York
Ben Child / Guardian:
Michael Moore predicts phone-hacking scandal will spread to Fox News — Documentary film-maker has ‘gut feeling’ investigations will reveal phone hacking at Murdoch subsidiary Fox News — The film-maker Michael Moore has suggested that the phone-hacking scandal at News International …
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Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:
Sky News chief apologises for misleading Leveson — Sky News editor John Ryley has apologised to the Leveson Inquiry after making a submission which stated there had been no interception of communications by its journalists. — Head of Sky News John Ryley said it was “highly unlikely” …
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Netflix Posts An In-Line Quarter, But Investors Balk — First look at Netflix numbers: A loss of $0.08 a share on revenue of $870 million. Wall Street was expecting revenues of $855 million and a loss of $0.27 a share. The crucial number: 23.41 million domestic streaming subscribers.
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Forbes, Media Money …, paidContent, TechCrunch, Home Media Magazine, Company Town, CNET, The Verge and The Next Web
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
NimbleTV Aims to Stream TV on Devices — In a move that could hasten the slow pace of so-called TV Everywhere, a technology start-up is introducing a way to move a whole subscription's worth of TV onto the Web, with or without the subscription company's permission.
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NYConvergence.com, Light Reading, PC Magazine, GigaOM, SocialTimes and Betabeat
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘Columbia Journalism Review’ will leave Columbia campus, take Midtown offices — The Columbia Journalism Review is leaving Morningside Heights. — The bimonthly journal is in the “final stages” of negotiating office space in a building “right off Times Square,” said Nicholas Lemann …
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Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
Google closes down online news payment system One Pass — Just over a year after launching the online payment service for news publishers Google has announced its closure — Google launched One Pass a day after Apple announced its subscription service for content-based apps
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Folio, MediaPost, JIMROMENESKO.COM, blogs.ft.com and Big News Network.com
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Tribune replaces TribLocal with Journatic suburban content — Tribune Co. announced Monday it has made an investment in Chicago-based media content provider Journatic, which will take over production of TribLocal, the Chicago Tribune's hyper-local news report. Terms of the investment were not disclosed.
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MediaPost, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Radio & Television … and @ckrewson
David Carr / New York Times:
TV Corrects Itself, Just Not on the Air — After broadcasting an audio clip on the “Today” show about George Zimmerman last month that hit the trifecta of being misleading, incendiary and dead-bang wrong, NBC News management took serious action: it fired the producer in charge and issued …
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TVNewser, Inside Cable News, Erik Wemple, Pat's Papers, Poynter and @brianstelter
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Neal Mann (@fieldproducer) joins Wall Street Journal as social media editor — Neal Mann is joining Wall Street Journal's social engagement team, announced Raju Narisetti, managing editor of the Journal's digital network. Mann is the latest high-profile social media hire for the Journal …
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Forbes, Journalism.co.uk, @rajunarisetti, Nieman Journalism Lab and FishbowlNY
Harry Jaffe / Washingtonian:
Ronald Kessler Talks About Breaking the Secret Service Scandal — The author and former “Post” reporter received a phone tip that kicked off a media frenzy. By Harry Jaffe — When a Secret Service agent phoned Ronald Kessler on April 13 and tipped him off that agents in Cartagena …
Justin D. Martin / CJR:
Loneliness at the Foreign ‘Bureau’ — News organizations exaggerate the size of their overseas newsrooms — The Washington Post has 16 foreign “bureaus,” and 12 of them consist of just a single reporter, according to the newspaper's website. The four remaining bureaus all consist of two journalists.