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Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
News Corp statement confirms spin-off plan under consideration — Following numerous reports that News Corp is thinking of spinning off its publishing operations, the company issued a short statement that it is “considering a restructuring to separate its business into two distinct public companies.”
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Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:
Anxious News Corp. Editors Arrive in New York to Discuss Corporate Split — As News Corporation confirmed that it was considering splitting off its publishing assets into a separate, publicly traded company, top editors and publishers at many of the company's newspapers arrived in New York …
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Why a reluctant Murdoch is splitting up News Corp and what it means — Separating publishing from television will please shareholders and worry print staff and media plurality advocates — The News Corp split could have two far-reaching outcomes. First, it might allow the entertainment entity …
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Bill Dedman / MSNBC:
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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TVNewser, Inside Cable News and The Huffington Post
Carl Nolte / San Francisco Chronicle:
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.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
WSJ intern dropped for fabricating names — Yesterday, a Hearst reporter was fired for quoting non-existent sources. Today, it's a Wall Street Journal intern. — A Journal story about New York's 103rd Street Pedestrian Bridge has been removed from the WSJ website. In it's place:
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Jim Romenesko:
Patch puts pressure on local editors — My reliable source on Patch matters reports that demands on local editors are growing. “Among other mandates, Local Editors now must have seven posts each day — that's including weekends — and blog posts no longer count toward that total,” he writes.
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Content going ‘everywhere’: WSJ extends premium subscriptions to Pulse newsreader — One day after The New York Times announced an “NYT Everywhere” strategy that will extend subscriber content to Flipboard, The Wall Street Journal stepped up its own “Journal Everywhere” …
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Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Gannett says paywalls are generating strong revenue, despite circulation declines — Gannett says its digital subscription plan, paired with metered paywalls, is now active in 38 of the company's 80 community newspaper markets. Gannett executives provided updates in a presentation last week …
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BBC:
News Corp ‘warned Lib Dems over BSkyB bid’ — News Corporation implied the Sun newspaper's coverage of the Lib Dems “may turn nasty” if Vince Cable did not rule in its favour on the BSkyB bid, a minister has told the Leveson Inquiry. Norman Lamb, Lib Dem junior business minister …
David Martosko / The Daily Caller:
Suspended reporter tweeted: Racism ‘secret sauce in the Politico sh*tburger’ — Joe Williams, the White House correspondent whom Politico suspended last week after he made racially insensitive remarks about Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, tweeted about his employer on the evening …
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