Mediagazer: ABC: Newspaper circulation rose in last six months, 5% on Sundays (Andrew Beaujon/Poynter)

4:15 PM ET, May 1, 2012

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Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:

‘Les Hinton was complicit in cover-up at News Int’ — Ex-News International chief executive Les Hinton sanctioned a series of “extraordinary” payments to former News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman after his phone-hacking conviction in a bid to buy his silence …

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Ed Pilkington / Guardian:
NY Daily News editor Colin Myler misled MPs over hacking, report finds

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

ABC: Newspaper circulation rose in last six months, 5% on Sundays — Newspapers across the country gained readers in the last six months, compared to the same period a year ago. Nationally, daily circulation was up .68 percent for digital and print at the 618 papers reporting …

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Dylan Byers / Politico:
New York Times rising, WaPo struggling

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Zeke Miller / Buzzfeed:

How The White House Smothered The News Of Obama's Trip To Afghanistan — Shortly before 9:19 a.m. this morning the Afghanistan-based 24-hour broadcast news station TOLONews tweeted that President Barack Obama had landed in Afghanistan. The surprise trip was a closely guarded secret …

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Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:

Where Do All Those BuzzFeed Cute Animal Pictures Come From? — BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti discusses the copyright implications of all the adorable cats, disappointed otters, and worried monkeys that grace the site. — It all started when I was looking at a photograph of an otter that was …

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Digg's Tech Team Heads for the Washington Post, and Digg Looks for a Lifeline — Digg isn't done. Yet. — But it's looking pretty close. The Washington Post is in the process of buying/hiring the news aggregator's technology team, but isn't purchasing the business itself …

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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Discovery Is Said to Pursue Revision3, a Web Video Company — Discovery Communications, the owner of Discovery and a dozen other cable channels, could soon scoop up Revision3, a maker and distributor of Web video shows. — The two companies are in talks that could result in a sale as early as this week …

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Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:

Wall Street Journal, Fox News Headquarters Receive Suspicious White Powder Letters — The Wall Street Journal and Fox News headquarters received letters containing a suspicious white powder on Tuesday. The powder was later revealed to be cornstarch, according to police spokesperson Paul Browne.

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