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News Corp. Considers Dividing Itself in Two — Updated News Corporation is considering dividing itself in two, cleaving its publishing arm from its far larger entertainment division, a person briefed on the matter told DealBook early on Tuesday. If News Corporation follows through …
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‘Journal’ rankles sister paper ‘Post’ with poachings
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Media News, Press Gazette, Globe and Mail, Yahoo! News and Forbes


Bloomberg TV's ads make false claim to Pulitzer nomination for anchor Liu — NEW YORK — Bloomberg Television has a new ad campaign in the New York City area, touting the journalistic credentials of its morning anchor, Betty Liu. “PULITZER PRIZE-NOMINATED,” the ads shout at commuters on trains in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
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‘Newsroom’ Debut Draws Audience of 2.1 Million — HBO generated a huge amount of talk — positive and negative — about its new Aaron Sorkin drama, “The Newsroom,” and it managed some better-than-average audience totals for its premiere Sunday night. — The drama, about a fictional cable newscast …
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10, 15 free web articles a month: Is this a mistake? (Yes!) — I think it's safe to say that what Walter Isaacson and Steven Brill started — a wave of newspaper websites putting up “metered paywalls” where there's a subscription or membership fee required for site visitors who want to read …


Why Porn and Journalism Have the Same Big Problem — Nobody wants to pay for their product. — The smut business just isn't what it used to be. — The early days of the Internet were a bonanza for major pornography studios, as the web transformed adult entertainment into an instant …
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Auto de Fe launches first on iPad, web second, print third — Auto de Fe launched on iPad earlier this week, with some content going online this weekend and a print edition due to be published later this year — A new magazine “of inquisitive journalism and intelligent photography” has launched for iPad.


Anthony Shadid's cousin takes a shot at NYT — and journalism in general — Those who were there said the crowd gasped. Ed Shadid, the cousin of late New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid, was speaking at a banquet for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee on Saturday night in Washington …
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Why the NYT-Flipboard deal is a smart move — The New York Times hasn't exactly been free-wheeling with its digital content in the past: the only way you could get it was through the newspaper's apps or via excerpts on a site like The Huffington Post or Google News — which is why the deal …
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Guardian, Daring Fireball, TeleRead, newsplexer, Poynter and The Atlantic Wire

Australian Billionaire Threatens to Dump Fairfax Media Stake — HONG KONG — The Australian mining billionaire Georgina Rinehart has threatened to sell her recently acquired 19 percent stake in Fairfax Media, sending shares in the Australian publisher tumbling on Tuesday.


George Hearst Jr. - Hearst Corp. chairman - dies — George R. Hearst Jr., chairman of the board of the Hearst Corp., died Monday at Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto of complications following a stroke. Mr. Hearst, who became ill June 16 at his ranch home in Paso Robles (San Luis Obispo County), was 84.


Prominent Americans urge Ecuador to accept Julian Assange's asylum request — A letter signed by leading US figures in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's application for political asylum in Ecuador has been delivered to the country's London embassy.
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Exclusive: Zinio puts itself up for sale — FORTUNE — Zinio, a digital magazine reading platform that competes with Amazon's (AMZN) Kindle app and Apple's (AAPL) Newsstand, is seeking a buyer, Fortune has learned. The San Francisco-based company has hired investment bank Montgomery & Co …
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