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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Rupert Murdoch Announces The News Corp. Divorce: The Full Memo — Here's Rupert Murdoch's official “internal” announcement explaining the News Corp. split. The important stuff: Murdoch will remain CEO of both the publishing business and the entertainment business. Chase Carey will be COO of the entertainment business.
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News Corp split announcement - live — 2.05pm BST (09.05am ET): Rupert Murdoch will be interviewed on Fox Business News in just under one hour and we will bring you that live here.
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch denies News Corp split is linked to phone-hacking scandal — Rupert Murdoch has dismissed suggestions that splitting News Corporation into separately listed publishing and entertainment companies has anything to do with the phone-hacking scandal that led to the closure of News of the World.
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
News Corp confirms split as Rupert Murdoch steps back from papers — Rupert Murdoch has confirmed he is to split News Corporation, the $54bn global media company he has built over 60 years, into two separate publicly listed companies - newspapers, book publishing and education; and media and entertainment.
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Susan Page / USA Today:
‘Today’ co-host Ann Curry will bid farewell today — Ann Curry's voice chokes when she talks about saying goodbye this morning on NBC's Today show, years earlier than she had hoped. — It's “going to be a bit of a tough day,” she told USA TODAY in a 40-minute phone interview Wednesday …
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Merrill Knox / TVNewser:
Ann Curry Says Emotional Goodbye to ‘Today’: ‘This Is Not as I Expected to Ever Leave This Couch’ — After 15 years on the “Today,” co-host Ann Curry is exiting the NBC morning show, she announced at the close of this morning's broadcast. “This is not easy to say, but today …
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Cindy Adams / New York Post:
‘Today’ to lose Natalie too?
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Sarah Kliff / Washington Post:
For SCOTUSblog, one goal: ‘Beat everybody’ and break news of health-care ruling — Lyle Denniston is an 81-year-old retiree with six grandchildren, two sailboats and one ambitious goal: breaking the news of the Supreme Court's landmark decision on the health-care law, possibly to the president himself.
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Operation Elveden: Police arrest man on suspicion of corruption — A former NHS employee has been arrested by Scotland Yard officers investigating allegations of inappropriate payments by newspapers to police and public officials. The 31-year-old man was arrested about 6am on Thursday …
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Sandra Laville / Guardian:
Senior police officer under investigation over hacking of Milly Dowler's phone — The second most senior officer at Surrey police is being investigated by the Independent Police Complaints Commission over claims he failed to act when he discovered the News of the World had hacked Milly Dowler's phone.
Jim Romenesko:
Patch Local Editor is having fun — From NAME WITHHELD AT HIS REQUEST: I'm a Local Editor at Patch and I've found the job to be, at times, cushier than my previous newsroom job at a paper. The compensation is better, benefits better and the job is flat-out more fun, so sometimes I don't mind if my day runs a bit longer.
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Steve Smith / MinOnline:
Google Opens Android Mag Newsstand, Brands Rush In — Magazines have embraced the iPad but generally dissed the Google Android OS. Google wants to change that will the opening of Magazines on Google Play. With scores of titles across many of the major publishing houses on tap for this launch …
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Michael Massing / CJR:
The two David Carrs — Since joining The New York Times in 2002, David Carr has become America's most visible and influential writer on the media. His weekly “Media Equation” column is closely followed by people in the industry. Last year, he was featured in Interview magazine …
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Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review:
Want to save local newspapers? Then break the chains that hold them back — The economies of scale that once helped place the journalism business among the economy's most profitable now threaten to help sink the industry. America's newspaper chains missed their moment of opportunity …
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Steve Myers / Poynter:
2011 busiest year for newspaper ownership changes since 2007
2011 busiest year for newspaper ownership changes since 2007
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
WashPost will not retract ‘outsourcing’ story — The Washington Post will not redact their June 21 report about Bain Capital's investments in firms that specialized in outsourcing American jobs, POLITICO has learned. — “We are very confident in our reporting,” Washington Post spokesperson …
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