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Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch ‘not fit’ to lead major international company, MPs conclude — Select committee also says James Murdoch showed ‘wilful ignorance’ of extent of phone hacking at News of the World — Rupert Murdoch is “not a fit person” to exercise stewardship of a major international company …
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Jim Romenesko:
Murdoch's letter to Dow Jones employees — In a memo to employees, Rupert Murdoch says of the UK Parliament panel's phone hacking report: “I recognize that for all of us - myself in particular - it is difficult to read many of the report's findings. But we have done the most difficult part …
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Guardian, FishbowlNY, Politico and National Updates
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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Guardian, @davidfolkenflik, Media Week, paidContent, Company Town and Journalism.co.uk
News Corp:
News Corporation Statement of UK's Parliamentary Select Committee of Culture, Media and Sport's News of the World Report — “Hard truths have emerged from the Select Committee Report: that there was serious wrongdoing at the News of the World; that our response to the wrongdoing was too slow …
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Barry Diller Backs Rupert Murdoch as ‘Honorable,’ ‘Morally Fit’ — Barry Diller at Allen & Co.'s annual media get-together in Sun Valley, Idaho. Rupert Murdoch was there, too. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) — To the six members of British Parliament's culture committee …
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Guardian, The Huffington Post and Company Town
Press Gazette:
Myler, Crone and Hinton could face public dressing down
Myler, Crone and Hinton could face public dressing down
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@skynewsbreak and ITV News
Ed Pilkington / Guardian:
NY Daily News editor Colin Myler misled MPs over hacking, report finds
NY Daily News editor Colin Myler misled MPs over hacking, report finds
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New York Times, Capital New York, Mixed Media and Media Week
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
New York Times rising, WaPo struggling
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Crain's New York Business, NetNewsCheck Latest and Adweek
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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Slate, Business Insider, Erik Wemple and eMedia Vitals
Associated Press:
CBS 1st-quarter profit beats Street estimates on digital licensing, overseas sales of TV shows — LOS ANGELES — CBS Corp. on Tuesday said its net income grew 80 percent in the first quarter, as revenue surged on digital licensing deals for its TV shows and overseas sales of reruns.
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Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and The Wrap
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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VentureBeat, mediabistro.com, SocialTimes, The Next Web, paidContent, @edbott, Betabeat, Fast Company, Washington Post, eMedia Vitals, TechCrunch, The Verge, Business Insider, CNET and The Next Web
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Web journey complete, FT switching off iOS app — The Financial Times is preparing to kill off its iPad and iPhone app for good, signalling its final conversion from executable-app to web-app publishing. — The news publisher launched a HTML5 web app and pulled its iOS app off iTunes Store …
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