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Michael J. De La Merced / DealBook:
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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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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The Wrap and New York Magazine
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, Felix, 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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FishbowlNY, LA Observed, MediaPost and mediabistro.com
Jordan Weissmann / The Atlantic:
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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JIMROMENESKO.COM and bookforum.com
Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
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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Poynter
Steve Outing:
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 …
Neil Gough / DealBook:
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.
Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
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.
Ben Quinn / Guardian:
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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The New York Observer, justforeignpolicy.org and The Raw Story
Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
‘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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Erik Wemple, The Wrap, Los Angeles Times, Gawker, Tampa Bay Times, Washington Post, The Huffington Post, New York Times, Gawker and Capital New York
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