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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Phone hacking: Andy Coulson wins leave to appeal over ruling on legal fees — Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson has won permission to appeal against a high court ruling that News International is not liable to pay his potential legal fees over the phone-hacking scandal.
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Associated Press, Press Gazette and Journalism.co.uk
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Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch's big backer sounds News Corp warning — Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the second-biggest shareholder in Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, has revealed his frustration with the fallout from the News of the World phone-hacking scandal and admitted that it is harming the reputation …
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Steering Murdoch in Scandal, Klein Put School Goals Aside
Steering Murdoch in Scandal, Klein Put School Goals Aside
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Capital New York
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Phone-hacking scandal: Glenn Mulcaire denies protecting News International
Phone-hacking scandal: Glenn Mulcaire denies protecting News International
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BBC
Craig Silverman / Poynter:
Writer fired by Chronicle of Higher Ed: ‘The vitriolic reaction is kind of surprising’ — The editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education has apologized and severed the publication's relationship with the writer of a blog post about Black Studies that “did not meet The Chronicle's basic editorial standards …
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Hit & Run and Racialicious
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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
The Atlantic Names Its New Business News Site: ‘Quartz.’ Quartz? Yep. Quartz. — Naming a new website in the year 2012 requires a fair amount of creativity and compromise. All the obvious good domains have been taken, and plenty of the bad ones, too. — Atlantic Media went heavy …
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Folio, @mlcalderone and FishbowlNY
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Decline Of Reader Apps Likely Due To News Feed Changes, Shows Facebook Controls The Traffic Faucet — No, Facebook news reader apps aren't declining because users suddenly got fed up with auto-sharing. The user loss is likely due to the transition to “trending articles” …
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GigaOM, BuzzFeed, Poynter, currybetdotnet, the Econsultancy blog, ReadWriteWeb, Inside Facebook, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Softpedia News, The Verge and Forbes
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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Guardian: Yep, it was “major changes” by Facebook that caused drop in social reader traffic
The Guardian: Yep, it was “major changes” by Facebook that caused drop in social reader traffic
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The Wall Blog and CNET
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Journalism: Dying by a thousand cuts, or being reinvented? — There are plenty of warning signs about the ongoing disruption in the media industry, and everyone is looking for someone to blame. But when it comes to their journalistic competition, many traditional outlets still seem …
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Poynter
Katherine Fung / Huffington Post:
New York Times Journalists Demand End To Contract Negotiations — New York Times staffers made another demand for the paper to end the dispute over their contract in a new video released on Monday. The video features Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters Kevin Sack, Dan Barry and Amy Harmon urging …
Michael Wines / New York Times:
China Expels Al Jazeera Channel — BEIJING — Al Jazeera, the satellite broadcasting network, was forced by the Chinese authorities to close its China news operations of its English-language channel on Monday, the first such action in almost 14 years and the strongest sign yet …
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Washington Post, AJE, Globe and Mail, China Real Time Report, Poynter, Guardian, @mlcalderone, Media Decoder, The New Yorker Blog and The Next Web
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Tom Brokaw Doubles Down On WHCD: 'If You Go, It'll Steal Your Soul' — Tom Brokaw doubled down on his criticism of the White House Correspondents Dinner during a Tuesday conversation with the Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz. The NBC News veteran caused a major stir on Sunday when he said that it was time to …
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Rem Rieder / American Journalism Review:
Death to Nerd Prom!
Death to Nerd Prom!
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Gretawire, Chickaboomer, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, FishbowlDC, Poynter and The Daily Caller
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Key Strategic — and Digitally Inclined — CBS Exec Lurie Departs — Zander Lurie — CBS's SVP of strategic development, who worked on a number of its key digital initiatives — is leaving the media giant. — Lurie has been involved in everything from the company's acquisition of Clicker …
Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:
A Closer Look At Chorus, The Next-Generation Publishing Platform That Runs Vox Media — The modern online newsroom is a 24/7 operation. It needs power tools to work efficiently, like modern carpenters need electric drills to build houses. The problem is that most content management systems …
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Vox Product and eMedia Vitals, Thanks:@ry_hudson
Richard Blackden / Telegraph:
Warren Buffett tells Omaha gathering he may buy more newspapers — Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said that he may buy more newspapers even though the profits they make will be “nothing like the old days.” — Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, eats a Dairy Queen ice cream bar …
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Garcia Media and FishbowlNY