Mediagazer: How News Corp wooed government over BskyB bid (Robert Peston/BBC)

5:00 PM ET, April 24, 2012

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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

Guardian:

Jeremy Hunt and NewsCorp: all the emails — Evidence provided by Rupert Murdoch to the Leveson inquiry shows that Conservative minister Jeremy Hunt maintained close contact with News Corporation while the company attempted take full ownership of BSkyB

Discussion: Guardian, Guardian and Tom Watson MP

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 …

Discussion: Reuters, Guardian, The Independent, Telegraph, Guardian, @lisaocarroll and New York Times

Guardian:
Leveson inquiry: Hunt accused of giving News Corp special access over BSkyB bid

Discussion: Telegraph, @skynewsbreak, @jackofkent, @arusbridger, Company Town, @dansabbagh, @jackofkent, Journalism.co.uk and Business Insider

Guardian:
How Hunt oiled wheels of Murdoch bid

Discussion: Guardian, @bobwheaton1, @nytjim, @skynewsbreak, Guardian and Journalism.co.uk

Robert Peston / BBC:
How News Corp wooed government over BskyB bid

Discussion: @jackofkent

Huffington Post UK:
Leveson Inquiry: David Cameron Met James Murdoch 12 Times While In Opposition, Did Discuss BSkyB

Discussion: Reuters

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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Jim Romenesko:
Here's more information about Journatic

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Felix Salmon:

The problem with Netflix — Nick Thompson today asks whether Netflix is doomed, and gives a fantastic potted history of how the company managed to pivot from being a wonderful DVD-by-mail company to being a clumsy digital-platform play. — While I agree with Nick's conclusion, however …

Discussion: @tcarmody and New York Times

Nicholas Thompson / The New Yorker Blog: Is Netflix Doomed? — For a while, Netflix seemed like the smartest tech company around.

Aruna Viswanatha / Reuters:

Exclusive: SEC probes movie studios over dealings in China — (Reuters) - U.S. regulators are investigating major U.S. movie studios' dealings with China as the entertainment companies try to get a greater foothold in one of the fastest-growing movie markets in the world.

Discussion: Engadget

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.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, NYConvergence.com, The Next Web, TeleRead and Betabeat

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 …

Discussion: The Next Web and Media Week

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 …

Discussion: Mediaite and Nypress.com

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.”

Discussion: Media Decoder, New York Post, Mediaite, Erik Wemple and Talking Points Memo

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.

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 …

Discussion: The New York Observer and inVocus Media Blog

Craig Silverman / Poynter: Post editors, critics weigh in on ombud column about Flock plagiarism

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.

Discussion: The New York Observer, Forbes, The Huffington Post, The Atlantic Online and New York Times