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Paul McNally / Journalism.co.uk:
Murdoch: There was a ‘cover-up’ at News of the World — ‘There is no question in my mind that someone took charge of a cover-up’, News Corporation chairman tells the Leveson inquiry — Management at News International and News Corporation were “misinformed” about the true extent …
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Paul McNally / Journalism.co.uk:
Murdoch: I should have closed News of the World earlier — Newspaper boss says he ‘panicked’ when the Milly Dowler revelations came out - but says: 'I'm glad I did' — News International: ‘We are now a new company’ — Copyright: Roger Jones on Geograph. Some rights reserved
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Guardian, Guardian, Poynter, New York Times, Journalism.co.uk, Press Gazette, Media Week, @lisaocarroll, @benfenton, @dansabbagh, @hayley_barlow and Telegraph
Jeevan Vasagar / Guardian:
News International offered to sponsor academy school — News International offered £2m in sponsorship to create an academy school but the plans fell through because the Department for Education could not afford to pay for a new building, according to email exchanges (pdf) published by the Leveson inquiry.
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Murdoch belittles the Huffington Post — Chalk it up to his undying love of print newspapers, but Rupert Murdoch has a very dismissive view of the Huffington Post. — During today's Leveson inquiry in Britain, where Murdoch is being questioned about the News of the World phone-hacking scandal …
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The New York Observer and NetNewsCheck Latest
Jack Shafer / Reuters:
Who cares if Murdoch lobbied?
Who cares if Murdoch lobbied?
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Company Town, The Huffington Post and Guardian
Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:
Gordon Brown: Rupert Murdoch wrong to claim I declared war on News Corp
Gordon Brown: Rupert Murdoch wrong to claim I declared war on News Corp
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Crikey, The Independent, Journalism.co.uk, Guardian and Forbes
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Vogue's flattering article on Syria's first lady is scrubbed from Web — It may have been the worst-timed, and most tin-eared, magazine article in decades. — “Asma al-Assad is glamorous, young, and very chic — the freshest and most magnetic of first ladies,” writer Joan Juliet Buck began …
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New York Magazine and magCulture.com/blog
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Meet Liz McDougall, the unlikely-seeming lawyer defending Village Voice Media in Backpage controversy — Somehow, Liz McDougall doesn't seem the type who defends big corporations from attacks by law enforcement agencies, clergy groups, and celebrity do-gooders who say they want to end the trafficking of minors and immigrants for sex.
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Politicker
Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
FCC wants to put political ad data online; broadcasters balk — Even though such information is already technically public, broadcasters fear that putting that level of detail on the Internet will undermine their own businesses. — This month, just before the Pennsylvania primary …
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Company Town
Alexis Gutter / American Journalism Review:
Telling the Story Through Her Own Words — When Eli Sanders sat in court listening to the testimony of a rape victim, he didn't know if the material would result in anything beyond a blog post. He certainly did not expect it would lead to a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing.
Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:
Angry New York Times Staffers Protest Outside Shareholders Meeting — Angry New York Times staffers took to the company's annual shareholders meeting in a flagrant display of discontent with the paper's handling of contract negotiations on Wednesday. Nearly seventy New York Times staffers formed …
Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Gawker: We want to elevate the discourse about frogs who sit like humans — Most news organizations would kill for Gawker's commenters, but Nick Denton is messing with them again. — Denton describes the failure of comments like an economist. It's a tragedy of the commons …
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Gawker, @fishbowlny and Lifehacker
Shiv Malik / Guardian:
FSA considers News Corp emails — Financial Services Authority looking into whether emails from culture department to News Corp broke insider trading rules — The stock market watchdog, the Financial Services Authority, is looking at whether a series of emails from the office of the culture …
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New Statesman, New York Magazine and Deadline.com
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Associated Press:
Bradley Manning awaits military judge's ruling on possible dismissal of some WikiLeaks charges — WikiLeaks — (AP) FORT MEADE, Md. - A military judge in Maryland is poised to rule on whether some of the 22 charges against a soldier accused of giving government secrets to WikiLeaks should be dismissed.
Tara Murtha / Philadelphia Weekly:
How Two Photojournalists Are Taking on the City's Gun Crisis — A new-media project, GunCrisis.org, uses old-school journalism tactics to study Philly's homicides. — Midnight comes and goes. For the first time in 11 nights, the city of Philadelphia has gone a full day and night without a homicide.