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Sandra Laville / Guardian:
Rebekah Brooks to be charged with perverting the course of justice — Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, is to be charged with perverting the course of justice, the Crown Prosecution Service said on Tuesday. She faces three charges of conspiracy to pervert …
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Leveson inquiry: Jeremy Hunt, adviser and lobbyist to appear in next fortnight — Lord Justice Leveson has said culture secretary Jeremy Hunt, his former special adviser Adam Smith and News Corp lobbyist Frédéric Michel would all give evidence to the inquiry into press ethics in the next fortnight.
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Journalism.co.uk, Press Gazette, Media & Entertainment, AdAge and Media Matters for America
Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:
News Corp info prompts two more Elveden arrests
News Corp info prompts two more Elveden arrests
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Crikey, Media Week, Multichannel and Journalism.co.uk
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Rebekah Brooks case: who are the five others to be charged?
Bloomberg:
Disney's ESPN in Talks With Apple To Expand Digital Access — Walt Disney Co. (DIS)'s ESPN sports network is talking with Apple Inc. (AAPL) about including the WatchESPN application on the computer maker's television device, network executive Sean Bratches said.
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘Businessweek’ editor won't say whether they're making money, describes the ‘luxury’ of doing long pieces — Is long-form journalism doomed to being subsidized by traffic-baiting animal slideshows? That was one of the questions lobbed at a panel of reporters and editors from Bloomberg Businessweek …
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Folio and Talking Biz News
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
New USA Today publisher Larry Kramer gets to apply his theories about newsroom evolution — New USA Today Publisher Larry Kramer hasn't had a newspaper job since 1991, when he left the San Francisco Examiner to found DataSport, and eventually MarketWatch. But he's thought about newspapers ever since …
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Charles Cooper / CNET:
Consumer e-book suit against Apple, publishers gets go-ahead — Judge nixes request from Apple, publishers to dismiss class action lawsuit alleging collusion to reduce retail competition. — Follow @coopeydoop — Apple and five big publishers are still on the hook to battle allegations …
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Media Decoder, GalleyCat and paidContent
Daniel Frankel / paidContent:
How broadcasters could have stopped Dish's Hopper — Like a long-ago military invasion that didn't infiltrate far enough to root out a hostile regime, broadcasters are reviewing their decade-old litigation with digital video recorder pioneer ReplayTV with some regret.
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
How the TV Industry Blew Its Best Chance to Kill Dish's Ad-Skipping Technology
How the TV Industry Blew Its Best Chance to Kill Dish's Ad-Skipping Technology
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Media Decoder and Company Town
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
In Evolving Media Landscape, Television Holds Sway — FOR television as an advertising medium, these seem like troubled times: declining ratings for many shows, increasing use of DVRs, difficulties in reaching prized younger viewers, fragmentation of audiences, the growing appeal of digital media …
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The Verge and Free Press
Richard Sandomir / Media Decoder:
ESPN Doubles Up on ‘30 for 30’ Documentary Series — ESPN's faith in sports documentaries is so deep that on Tuesday it will announce a second go-round for its “30 for 30” series, which made its debut in the fall of 2009. — The first 30 films — produced by independent filmmakers as diverse …
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Steve Myers / Poynter:
Google explains why Adweek ‘survey wall’ stopped Gawker editorial director — Scott Kidder, director of editorial operations at Gawker Media, said it was “desperate” that Adweek's website tried to get him to share a story on Facebook, Twitter or Google+ before he had read it.
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Nieman Journalism Lab, Scott Kidder, AllThingsD and State of the Fourth Estate
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
How not to retract a falsehood — MSNBC last week did the world of journalism a good turn. It exposed as a hoax a much-circulated story that a female dentist in Poland had pulled out all the teeth of her ex-boyfriend in an act of revenge. The bogus piece of news, according to MSNBC …
Jim Romenesko:
NPR's Reber joins Center for Investigative Reporting — Susanne Reber, who built and led NPR's first investigations unit, has joined the Center for Investigative Reporting to lead its national and international investigative and enterprise — reporting projects. She'll also be in charge of CIR's team of health and
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
A Ray of Light for the New York Times — It's easy to write dour predictions about the state of the newspaper industry. So here's a relatively sunny one: One day, not that far away, the New York Times' growing subscriber base will make up for its shrinking ad business.
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