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Michael Wolff / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch before the Leveson inquiry — Murdoch's media empire was partly built on rage at the British establishment. I, for one, hope he still has some fight in him — Does Rupert Murdoch have the wiles and the stamina for a last stand? — On Wednesday, he is scheduled to appear …
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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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Erik Wemple, NME News and 24 Frames
Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:
Sky News chief apologises for misleading Leveson
Sky News chief apologises for misleading Leveson
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Press Gazette
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, @ckrewson, The Huffington Post, JIMROMENESKO.COM and Radio & Television …
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Jim Romenesko:
Here's more information about Journatic — It was announced earlier today that the Chicago Tribune has invested in Journatic and will be using it to cover hyperlocal news. — A Romenesko reader writes: … Visitors to Sportsjournalists.com started asking questions about Journatic last December.
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PR Newswire
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, The Verge, Company Town, Media Money …, CNET, paidContent, Home Media Magazine, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Media Decoder, Broadcasting & Cable, TechCrunch and Business Insider
Elizabeth Dickinson / UnderReported:
When a Fixer is Arrested — Many of the international journalists who come in and out of a country like Bahrain rely on fixers—locals who are willing to help them set up meetings, serve as translators, and generally get the lay of the land. Particularly for correspondents tasked …
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Committee to Protect …
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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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Columbia University …
Craig Silverman / Poynter:
Post editors, critics weigh in on ombud column about Flock plagiarism — In a new column about the recent resignation of Washington Post blogger Elizabeth Flock, Post ombudsman Patrick Pexton offers the provocative assessment that, “The Post failed her as much as she failed The Post.”
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The Raw Story and inVocus Media Blog
David Kenner / Foreign Policy:
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.
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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Capital New York and The New York Observer
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Tech bubbles, ad revenue and Twitter — five questions with Nick Denton — Gawker Media founder Nick Denton has some controversial ideas about what online media need to do, including the idea that the conversation around a story should be the primary focus rather than the story itself …
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Gawker, Betabeat, Dave Winer's … and Noted
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, SocialTimes, Light Reading, PC Magazine, GigaOM and Betabeat