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Guardian:
James Murdoch at the Leveson inquiry - live coverage — • Murdoch had info on PM and Hunt discussing setting up phone-hacking inquiry — • Hunt asked News Corp to ‘work with his team’ on statement — • Murdoch: ‘illegal’ info on Hunt's statement was a joke
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Guardian:
Leveson inquiry: Hunt accused of giving News Corp special access over BSkyB bid — Murdoch lobbyist's emails appear to show back channel to culture secretary during takeover bid — The culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has been accused of acting as a “cheerleader” and operating a secret …
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Telegraph, @skynewsbreak, @jackofkent, @arusbridger, @dansabbagh, @jackofkent, Journalism.co.uk, Business Insider and Press Gazette
Guardian:
How Hunt oiled wheels of Murdoch bid — A haul of email, text and phone call records appear to show how minister aided News Corp takeover bid — Sometimes half a dozen confidential texts and emails a day would fly back and forth between the culture secretary's Cockspur Street office …
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Guardian, @nytjim, @skynewsbreak, Guardian and Journalism.co.uk
Press Gazette:
Jeremy Hunt ‘secretly backed BSkyB bid’ — Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt secretly backed News Corporation's bid to take over BSkyB and leaked inside information to the media giant, the Leveson Inquiry heard today. — Labour has now called on Hunt to resign - with deputy Labour leader …
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The Independent, Reuters, Guardian and Guardian
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Michael Miner / Chicago Reader:
Tribune Company does deal with Journatic — The Tribune Company announced Monday it's turning over TribLocal to Journatic—which the Tribune describes as a “Chicago-based media content provider” that “aggregates data.” Not just Chicago-based, it's Tribune Tower-based …
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Poynter, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Street Fight and Chicago Business
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Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
FT passes 2m users for HTML5 web app — Mobile now driving 12% of subscriptions to the newspaper's digital offering — The Financial Times has attracted more than 2m users to its HTML5 web-app, 10 months after its launch. — The app was launched in June 2011 in response to Apple's introduction …
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The Next Web and Media Week
Sahil Kapur / TPM:
Fox News' Steve Doocy Corrects Fabricated Obama Quote — Fox News' Steve Doocy Corrects Fabricated Obama Quote — Facing strong criticism, Fox News host Steve Doocy on Tuesday morning corrected a quote by President Obama that he partially fabricated last week, conceding on air that he “did some paraphrasing.”
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Media Decoder, Erik Wemple, The Huffington Post, New York Post and Talking Points Memo
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Mitt Romney Alleges Media Bias, As Study Finds He Receives More Positive Coverage Than Obama
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Slate, Mediaite and Mother Jones
David Kenner / FP Passport:
The death of a newspaper — It's an old story: Journalists tend to see their occupation as a calling, and investors see newspapers as a business. At Egypt's only independent English-language print daily, the balance sheets won out. — Daily News Egypt announced yesterday that it was closing after over seven years in business.
Mike Flynn / Breitbart.com:
NPR Fails To Disclose Reporter's Ties To Activist Group — This weekend, NPR aimed its taxpayer-subsidized guns at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a relatively unknown membership association of state legislators. ALEC, a non-profit 501 (c)3 founded in the 1970s …
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Mediaite and Nypress.com
Megan Carpentier / The Raw Story:
Unsolicited advice to young writers: The internet remembers — It's hard not to read a story about a young, aspiring journalist like Elizabeth Flock and not feel at least a little sorry for her. Flock, who resigned from the Washington Post last week after receiving two strong editor's notes …
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The New York Observer and inVocus Media Blog
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Felix Salmon:
Could the NYT make money from its scoops? — Perhaps the most surprising thing about the NYT's Walmart exposé this weekend is that it was such a surprise to the market. Note this, for instance: … The filing in question was Walmart's quarterly report, which was filed with the SEC on December 8.
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The New York Observer, Forbes, The Atlantic Online, New York Times and The Consumerist
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
“Why I break DRM on e-books”: A publishing exec speaks out — Calls for big-six publishers to drop DRM have increased in recent weeks, coinciding with the DOJ price-fixing lawsuit. Many observers fear that the lawsuit will actually reduce competition in the e-book marketplace …
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Tor.com Frontpage Partial, paidContent, TeleRead and Melville House Books
Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
Read Offline: News.me Automatically Downloads Your News Whenever You Leave Home — News.me, the newsreader app hatched in The New York Times' R&D lab and incubated at betaworks, today added a nifty feature to its new iPhone app, which gives readers instant access to their news offline — whenever they leave the house.
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The Next Web, TeleRead and Betabeat
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Why it matters who won the first ‘online’ Pulitzer — When The Huffington Post's David Wood won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on wounded veterans, Michael Calderone called it a “milestone in the influential Pulitzer committee's recognition of online-only news organizations.”
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