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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Woodward rejects new Watergate claims — Bob Woodward is strongly disputing a new report in which it is revealed that his mentor, legendary Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, once expressed “fear in my soul” that Woodward had embellished for dramatic effect certain key details of his reporting on the Watergate scandal.
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New York Magazine, Guardian and Washington Post
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Jeff Himmelman / New York Magazine:
The Red Flag in the Flowerpot — Four decades after Watergate, there's something that still nags at Ben Bradlee about Deep Throat. — One day in early 2007, Bob Woodward poked his head into my office. He and his wife, Elsa, had been out for dinner the night before with Ben Bradlee and his wife, Sally Quinn.
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Erik Wemple, Jack Shafer, Politico, Washington Post, Politico, Daily Mail, @benfenton, ABCNEWS, Poynter and The New York Observer
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Himmelman, NY Mag defend Woodward-Watergate story
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The Huffington Post
Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:
Rumor: Digg to be acquired by The Washington Post — With a history only fitting an Internet business, Digg has seen the highest of the highs and the lowest of the lows, and everywhere in between. — We've received a tips from multiple sources that Digg may have found a suitor by way of The Washington Post.
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
The Digg Team Is Going To WaPo, But The Assets Aren't — Has The Washington Post acquired Digg, as reported in The Next Web? Sort of. — We're hearing that the Post has hired the Digg team, but is not acquiring the site or the technology. In other words, this is a talent acquisition …
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Hulu, networks to change model of free streaming — Viewers who stream network TV shows may soon discover the free ride is not so free. Hulu, which attracted 31 million unique users in March under a free-for-all model, is taking its first steps to change to a model where viewers …
Lucy Manning / ITV News:
Exclusive: Three former News International executives misled Parliament — The long-awaited and potentially explosive report on phone hacking from the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee is due tomorrow morning. MPs had their last meeting this morning to sign off the report and ITV News can reveal some of the findings.
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New York Magazine and Guardian
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Scandal and Scrutiny Hem In Murdoch's Empire
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Capital New York, Media Decoder, Free Press and Reuters
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
‘The American Prospect’ Magazine May Close In May — The American Prospect, an influential liberal politics and policy magazine, could shut its doors at the end of May unless the nonprofit publication raises a half million dollars to fill a current funding gap.
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LA Observed, FishbowlDC and FishbowlNY
David Carr / New York Times:
Byliner Takes Bissinger E-book off Amazon — Last Tuesday, Buzz Bissinger hopped the Amtrak train to Philadelphia from New York, where he had done a bit of publicity for “After Friday Night Lights,” a 12,000-word e-book that had been performing nicely since its release.
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DealBook, paidContent, Digital Book World, The Verge, Fortune, Media Decoder, GalleyCat, Poynter and Melville House Books
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Lawyer: Student likely owns falling bear photo, not newspaper — On Saturday the Associated Press issued a “photo elimination” of Andy Duann's falling bear pictures, advising its members to “eliminate from your systems and archives” AP's “Campus bear” photos shot by Andy Duann and credited …
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Mashable!
Keith Matheny / USA Today:
College newspapers feel financial pinch — Editor Joseph Valdez says he has seen his newspaper's budget “cut drastically” the past two years. His print paper may soon be eliminated, as the push continues to take news to what many see as newspapers' ultimate destination: the Internet, with all of its uncertain profitability.
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College Media Matters
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Makes $300M Investment In New Barnes & Noble Subsidiary To Battle With Amazon And Apple In E-books — Barnes & Noble has found a new, major partner in its fight to get an edge over Amazon and Apple in the heating up market for e-books and the devices being used to consume them …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
At $1.7 billion, Nook is worth more than Barnes & Noble itself
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DealBook, Barnes & Noble, Inc. and paidContent
BBC:
The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs, court rules — The Pirate Bay is hosted in Sweden, where it has an active supporter base — File-sharing site The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK internet service providers, the High Court has ruled. — The Swedish website hosts links to download mostly pirated free music and video.
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TorrentFreak, TechCrunch, Forbes, Softpedia News, Techdirt, WebProNews, The Verge, The Next Web and VentureBeat
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Dan Rather: Mark Cuban Has The Guts My CBS Bosses Lacked — Don't make the mistake of thinking that Dan Rather's angry. Sure, almost eight years after the events that led to his forced departure from CBS News, and three years after his defeat in a $70 million lawsuit stemming from those events …
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The Atlantic Wire
John Del Signore / Gothamist:
City Official Got TIME To Yank Photo Of Councilmember's OWS Arrest, Lawsuit Alleges — Four New York City Councilmembers and a group of Occupy Wall Street protesters announced the filing of a big federal civil rights lawsuit (read it in full below) against the NYPD and Mayor Bloomberg.
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City Room, Capital New York, Runnin' Scared and Capital New York
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