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Michael Hastings / BuzzFeed:
CNN News Staffers Revolt Over Blown Coverage — News staffers at the cable network CNN, long the gold standard in television news, were on the verge of open revolt Tuesday after CNN blew the coverage on the most consequential news event of the year. As Chief Justice John Roberts began reading …
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Politico, Business Insider, The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, @producermatthew, Poynter, Gawker, BostInno, The Daily Caller and Collective Talent
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Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
CNN, Fox News err in covering today's Supreme Court health care ruling — The Supreme Court announced its ruling on the Affordable Care Act around 10:15 a.m. EST. CNN mistakenly reported that the individual mandate was struck down. Screenshots show the mistake and the subsequent change.
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Forbes, The Daily Beast, Media Matters for America, Hollywood Reporter, SCOTUSblog, New York Times, Mediaite, Gawker, CNN, BuzzMachine, The New Yorker Blog, Capital New York, AdAge, The Wrap, TVNewser, Adweek, Associated Press, mediabistro.com, CJR, Broadcasting & Cable, Yahoo! News, ZDNet, Multichannel, Charles Apple, Erik Wemple, FishbowlDC, American Journalism Review, Mediaite and Multichannel News
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
CNN issues correction, Fox issues statement on Supreme Court reporting mistakes — The ruling has come down: Both CNN and Fox badly bungled their reporting of today's landmark Supreme Court opinion on healthcare. And both organizations have taken very different routes to correcting their mistakes.
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Forbes, The Daily Beast, Gawker, Media Matters for America, The New Yorker Blog and CNN
Rem Rieder / American Journalism Review:
Who Was First? Who Cares? — The ridiculous battle over who “broke” the news on the health care ruling―and why it's dangerous. Thurs., June 28, 2012. — Rem Rieder (rrieder@ajr.umd.edu) is AJR's editor and senior vice president. — Q: Which news organization was first to report …
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Poynter, Tampa Bay Times, Online NewsHour and New York Magazine
Jim Romenesko:
AP orders staff to stop taunting news outlets for getting health care ruling wrong — An Associated Press editor tells staff that taunting other news outlets is “not the impression we want to reflect as an organization. Let our reporting take the lead.”
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Gawker, The Huffington Post, Politico, Mediaite, New York Magazine and Vanity Fair
Jim Romenesko:
Bloomberg News: We were first with health care ruling — A Bloomberg News PR person writes: Just wanted to reach out about your post about the coverage of today's Supreme Court health care ruling. You reference an email that notes that the AP first reported the decision — by our records …
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Erik Wemple, The Huffington Post and SCOTUSblog
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
POTUS First Learned Erroneous News on Court Decision from Cable TV — President Obama was just outside the Oval Office Thursday morning when he got the news — erroneous, as it turned out — that the U.S. Supreme Court had struck down the individual mandate in his signature health care law, deeming it unconstitutional.
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Poynter, The Huffington Post, Adweek, Mashable!, Mediaite, New York Magazine, TVNewser, Guardian, CNN, Gawker and Washington Wire
Sarah Kliff / Washington Post:
For SCOTUSblog, one goal: ‘Beat everybody’ and break news of health-care ruling
For SCOTUSblog, one goal: ‘Beat everybody’ and break news of health-care ruling
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FishbowlDC, New York Times, Mediaite, Poynter, Online NewsHour, Mashable!, @onthemedia and SCOTUSblog
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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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Rupert Murdoch Suggests Wall Street Journal Won't Face Cuts In News Corp. Split — NEW YORK — Rupert Murdoch loves his newspapers. So even as the industry contracted in recent years following advertising declines, reporters and editors at Murdoch newspapers in the U.S. …
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Business Insider and WebProNews
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Murdoch Says Separated News Corp Publishing Biz Will ‘Push Even Harder’ On Charging For Content — Old media, some think, is headed for the graveyard, and they'll be damned if it takes young and cool new media with it. But it ain't dead yet, and some growling comments made today by Rupert Murdoch …
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The Next Web
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
The Murdoch media tour: Spinning the spinoff
The Murdoch media tour: Spinning the spinoff
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Radio & Television … and Adweek
Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
News Corp split sets stage for possible Lachlan return
Charles Forelle / @charlesforelle:
On @CNBC, @rupertmurdoch says name of Wall Street Journal might be changed to WSJ.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Tom Mockridge and Robert Thomson tipped to head News Corp's press arm
Tom Mockridge and Robert Thomson tipped to head News Corp's press arm
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AllThingsD and Media Decoder
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
News Corp confirms split as Rupert Murdoch steps back from papers
News Corp confirms split as Rupert Murdoch steps back from papers
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Media Decoder and Multichannel
Bloomberg:
Microsoft Said To Plan Xbox Music Rivaling Apple, Spotify — Attendees at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles, June 5, 2012. Microsoft Corp. expanded the sports and entertainment content offered through the Xbox, and is planning to add iTunes and Spotify for music.
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MacRumors, PC Magazine and Engadget
Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
Ann Curry Mess: Did NBC Learn Nothing From Conan O'Brien? — Ann Curry's messy exit suggests that despite NBC's new regime the new crew has learned nothing from the old crew and the ghost of Conan O'Brien. — Once again, a prominent piece of talent - this time Curry - was left hanging out to dry …
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Alexandra Alter / Wall Street Journal:
Your E-Book Is Reading You — Digital-book publishers and retailers now know more about their readers than ever before. How that's changing the experience of reading. — It takes the average reader just seven hours to read the final book in Suzanne Collins's “Hunger Games” trilogy on the Kobo e-reader—about 57 pages an hour.
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Digital Book World, Thanks:@jdgsaid
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Jim Milliot / Publishers Weekly:
Authors Guild Sees Return of Predatory Pricing if DoJ Deal Stands
Authors Guild Sees Return of Predatory Pricing if DoJ Deal Stands
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TeleRead
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
Remix Everything: BuzzFeed and the Plagiarism Problem — BuzzFeed has built a lucrative business on organizing the internet's confusing spectacle into listicles easily comprehended by even the most numbed office workers. But the site's approach to all content as building blocks …
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
What's the Secret to Viral Success? It's So Obvious
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.
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Operation Elveden: Police arrest man on suspicion of corruption
Operation Elveden: Police arrest man on suspicion of corruption
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Press Gazette
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Why Louis CK and Amanda Palmer are the future of content — Comedian Louis CK raised some eyebrows earlier this year when he sold downloads of a live show through his website and pulled in more than $1 million in about a week, despite the fact that fans could easily download the content for free.
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Rolling Stone and The Wrap