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Kate Holton / Reuters:
Piers Morgan “showed journalist how to hack phone” — (Reuters) - One of Britain's most respected journalists said on Wednesday that former tabloid newspaper editor Piers Morgan showed him how to hack into phones 10 years ago, the latest twist in a scandal that has so far centered on Rupert Murdoch.
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Guardian, Big News Network.com and The Independent
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Andy Coulson voicemails allegedly hacked
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New Statesman and Huffington Post UK
Michael Miner / Chicago Reader:
Wrapports buys the Reader — Wrapports LLC, the collection of high-flying investors who own the Sun-Times and Sun-Times Media, have added the Reader to their stable, buying this 41-year-old weekly-which the Wrapports news release chooses to call “iconic”—for slightly under $3 million.
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
It's official: Chicago Reader sold to Sun-Times parent — A memo from group publisher Alison Draper and CFO Tammy Bailey to Creative Loafing employees confirms the sale: … The likely sale to Wrapports was first reported about two weeks ago. — The Reader and Washington City Paper …
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The Huffington Post
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
This Was Inevitable: Huffington Post + Oprah Coming — While it might seem as though Web content queen Arianna Huffington could soon launch a moon edition of her eponymous Huffington Post — perhaps HuffPo Lunar — the AOL-owned unit's next effort will be an Oprah Winfrey section on the huge online publishing platform.
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Adweek, MediaPost and The Huffington Post
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Jason Del Rey / AdAge:
Huffington Post Gets Its First Publisher Amid Broader AOL Changes — Janet Balis Takes Post While AOL Chief Revenue Officer Ned Brody Also Gets New Role — In his company's most recent earnings call, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong said he wanted to restructure the company in a way that made …
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Media & Entertainment, MediaPost, FishbowlNY, Adweek, NetNewsCheck Latest and Capital New York
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Survey: NPR's listeners best-informed, Fox viewers worst-informed — People who watch no news at all can answer more questions about international current events than people who watch cable news, a survey by Fairleigh Dickinson University's PublicMind finds.
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Erik Wemple, Mediaite, Hit & Run and The Huffington Post
David Kravets / Wired:
New York Legislation Would Ban Anonymous Online Speech — Did you hear the one about the New York state lawmakers who forgot about the First Amendment in the name of combating cyberbullying and “baseless political attacks”? — Proposed legislation in both chambers would require New York-based websites …
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Katharine Zaleski leaves Washington Post — Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli announced to staff today that Katharine Zaleski, the Washington Post's executive director of digital news, will be leaving the news organization to join Planet Daily, where she'll be managing editor.
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Betabeat and @buzzfeedben
Erik Wemple:
Washington Times takes de Borchgrave's recent columns offline — On Monday night, the Washington Times announced that it would conduct an inquiry into the work of longtime columnist Arnaud de Borchgrave, following allegations that he'd lifted material from other sources on the Internet.
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@jackshafer, FishbowlDC and The Corsair
Jim Romenesko:
Larry Platt resigns as Philadelphia Daily News editor — Philadelphia Daily News editor Larry Platt says he's leaving the paper after just a year and a half. “I never looked at this gig as a long-term play for me,” he tells his staff. Larry Platt “I have long loved the Daily News …
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Off Mic, Philly.com and @ckrewson
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Roku and Dish partner on new foreign TV streaming service — Dish Network has partnered with Roku to launch a new, streaming-only service that will be sold to customers across the U.S., regardless of whether they're subscribers of Dish's pay TV offering or not, both companies announced Wednesday morning.
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The Official Roku Blog, Multichannel, PC Magazine, CNET and TechCrunch
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Digital story-telling and the rise of the new publishers — In order to tell the story of Star Wars, George Lucas had to create a new technology company that was powerful enough to tell that story. The same thing has to happen in digital news publishing. — That's the conclusion of Jim Bankoff …
Greg Sandoval / CNET:
Amazon Prime acquires access to Paramount films — When it comes to offering popular movies over the Internet, Amazon continues to close the gap with Netflix. — Follow @sandoCNET — Thanks to a new agreement with Paramount Pictures, subscribers of Amazon's Prime service will now get access to …
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Home Media Magazine and TechCrunch
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Jay Greene / CNET:
How Amazon is changing the rules for books and movies
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PC Magazine, Digital Book World and Home Media Magazine
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Apple: U.S. e-book lawsuit “fundamentally flawed” — (Reuters) - Apple Inc is rejecting charges that it conspired to fix prices of electronic books, calling the U.S. government's antitrust lawsuit a “fundamentally flawed” endeavor that could discourage competition and harm consumers.
Nitasha Tiku / Betabeat:
Over the Aereo: Killer Diller Just Might Help Viewers Cut the Cord At Last — The sun was still setting when The Observer rounded the corner under The High Line for IAC's Internet Week closing party, co-hosted by Aereo, a provocative new startup that will allow users to view broadcast content …
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New York Magazine and Online Video News
Michael Roberts / The Latest Word:
Denver Post program delivers ex-subscribers ads but not newspaper — Even as it planned sweeping copy-editor layoffs, the Denver Post touted a circulation leap, albeit one taking place mainly online. Indeed, the number of physical papers being delivered keeps sliding — hence “Sunday Select …
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