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Rebekah Brooks Testifies About Relationships With British Elite — LONDON — Offering a rare glimpse into the personal relationship between political power and the press in Britain, Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper subsidiary …
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Rebekah Brooks: David Cameron signed off texts ‘LOL’ — Former News International chief tells Leveson inquiry that reports prime minister sent her dozens of texts a day are preposterous — David Cameron exchanged up to two text messages a week with Rebekah Brooks during the last general election campaign …
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Ryan Chittum / CJR:
The Washington Post Co.'s Self-Destructive Course — Dividends, share buybacks, and an anti-paywall stance help bleed the paper dry — The Washington Post Company's dismal quarterly earnings release last week was received with something of a shrug—more of the same.
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Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
NBC Yanks ‘Rock Center’ From May Sweeps, Presence on Fall Lineup Unclear — NBC has pulled its primetime newsmagazine series “Rock Center with Brian Williams” from its lineup for the remainder of May Sweeps. In its place, the network will broadcast reruns of “Law & Order: SVU.”
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Washington Post adds Editor's Note to Romney bullying story after saying it didn't require correction — The Washington Post is adding an editor's note to its story about Mitt Romney's high school days. “We should have been clearer about it and we are adding an Editor's note to the story …
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Beth Healy / The Boston Globe:
New York Times Co. sells its remaining stake in the Boston Red Sox — The New York Times Co. said it has sold its remaining share of Fenway Sports Group, which includes the Boston Red Sox, for $63 million. — The sale, to undisclosed buyers believed to be current minority owners of the team …
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Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
The Atlantic Media's Digital Transformation — The Atlantic Media Company is hardly new to publishing. Its history stretches to 1857, but for an old guy it's proven to have some serious digital moves. Its outlets — The Atlantic, The National Journal and Government Executive …
Alan Duke / CNN:
Reporter, fired for stripping, charges gender discrimination — Los Angeles (CNN) — A part-time stripper fired from her full-time newspaper job covering Texas high society claims she's a victim of gender discrimination. — Sarah Tressler, 30, filed a complaint this week asking …
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Did the News Media Drive the Gay Marriage Debate? — On the Fox News Channel on Wednesday afternoon, the anchor Shepard Smith played a clip of President Obama expressing his support for gay marriage, then delivered this stinging assessment: “The President of the United States, now in the 21st century.”
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
No Tablet News From Nokia, But It's Launching A Reading App Powered By OverDrive — There are still some big question marks over what Nokia plans to do in tablets — a market where it is now possibly the only major smartphone maker yet to make a device — but at least Nokia is moving ahead with the launch of tablet-friendly services.
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Robin Wauters / The Next Web:
Slashnot? Geeknet mulls sale of online media businesses, including Slashdot and SourceForge — Geeknet this morning announced that its board of directors has started evaluating “strategic alternatives” for its online media businesses, which include popular ‘news for nerds’ site Slashdot …
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Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Search engines have same speech rights as the New York Times, says Google report — Just as the New York Times can decide “All the News That's Fit to Print,” search engines have a free speech right to choose who or what to put in their search rankings. — That's the conclusion of a prominent …
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