Mediagazer: How Hunt oiled wheels of Murdoch bid (Guardian)

8:15 PM ET, April 24, 2012

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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

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Press Gazette:
Jeremy Hunt ‘secretly backed BSkyB bid’

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Guardian:
How Hunt oiled wheels of Murdoch bid

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

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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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Jim Romenesko:
Here's more information about Journatic

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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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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Should the NYT charge for early access to the news?

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Nicholas Thompson / The New Yorker Blog:

Is Netflix Doomed? — For a while, Netflix seemed like the smartest tech company around. Searching for movies online was easy; mailing them back off-line was cathartic. The company constantly tweaked its red envelopes, trying to create one that you could open while tipsy and seal one-handed while late for work.

Felix Salmon:
The problem with Netflix — Nick Thompson today asks whether Netflix …

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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: Deadline.com and Engadget

Ben Dowell / Guardian:

Twitter users to be arrested over naming of Ched Evans rape victim — Police also investigating Sky News after inadvertently displaying a Twitter feed identifying 19-year-old victim in a report — Police are planning to arrest a number of Twitter users who are alleged to have named …

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Michael Rundle / Huffington Post UK:
Sky News Accidentally Names Ched Evans Rape Victim

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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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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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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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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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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Eliot Spitzer on his new show: 'Look, my mom watches, she's happy' — Eliot Spitzer's been back as a full-time cable news host for almost a month now. So the former New York governor's had plenty of time to warm up for his first grilling from the press about his new show, “Viewpoint,” …

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