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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, @brianstelter, Pat's Papers and Poynter
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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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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FishbowlNY and Capital New York
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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Reuters:
Ofcom investigating Sky over email hacking
Ofcom investigating Sky over email hacking
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Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:
Leveson becomes Murdoch family affair
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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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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JIMROMENESKO.COM, Folio, MediaPost, 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 and @ckrewson
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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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
New Romney Spokesman Scrubs History Of Attacking Media — NEW YORK — Richard Grenell, a former Bush administration official who joined the Romney campaign Thursday as national security and foreign policy spokesman, appears to have deleted more than 800 of his past tweets following scrutiny …
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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.
Channel 4:
Channel 4 News team deported from Bahrain — Jonathan Miller, foreign affairs correspondent for Channel 4 News, and his team have been deported from Bahrain following their release from detention. — The correspondent, cameraman, Joe Sheffer, and producer Dave Fuller …
Thomas Catan / Wall Street Journal:
Experts Say Government Had Little Choice in E-Books Case — WASHINGTON—The U.S. Justice Department has come under criticism since filing an antitrust lawsuit against Apple Inc. and five publishers, accusing them of colluding to fix e-book prices. — But many experts say that under antitrust law …
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