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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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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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Media Decoder, The Huffington Post, Company Town and Company Town
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:
Rupert Murdoch's Fox broadcast licences targeted by US ethics group — FCC called on to revoke licences in wake of British parliamentary report as phone hacking scandal widens abroad — A Washington-based ethics watchdog is calling on federal regulators to revoke News Corporation's 27 Fox …
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Tech Daily Dose
Paul Hoskins / Reuters:
BSkyB hopes results can outshine hacking headlines — LONDON, May 2 (Reuters) - Probes into phone hacking and the legacy of a failed bid by Rupert Murdoch to seize full control look likely to overshadow a resilient set of results from satellite broadcaster BSKyB on Wednesday.
News Corp:
News Corporation Statement of UK's Parliamentary Select Committee of Culture, Media and Sport's News of the World Report
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Crikey
Ed Pilkington / Guardian:
NY Daily News editor Colin Myler misled MPs over hacking, report finds
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New York Times, Mixed Media and Capital New York
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 …
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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John Koblin / Deadspin:
Is An ESPN Columnist Scamming People On The Internet? [UPDATE] — A few weeks ago, ESPN columnist Sarah Phillips concluded her weekly “Junk Mail” column with a question from an unnamed reader: … Phillips responded: … Is Sarah Phillips for real? Thirteen months ago …
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@weareyourfek, @nicknotned and @ryanchittum
Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:
Soon you'll be able to use your Nook to buy books in Barnes & Noble stores — On the heels of yesterday's news that Microsoft is investing $300 million in Barnes & Noble's Nook and college businesses, B&N CEO William Lynch says that the company plans to embed NFC (near field communication) chips into Nooks.
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Fortune, Betabeat and PC Magazine
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Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
A brief history of Microsoft's e-reader efforts
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CNET, Digital Book World, Wired and TechCrunch
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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