Mediagazer: News International pays £30m to end printing contract with Johnston Press (Mark Sweney/Guardian)

11:25 AM ET, July 6, 2012

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

The future of media and forcing new content into old models — We've seen a ton of digital ink spilled over the implications of media startup Journatic faking bylines for some of its content, including a post from me at about the underlying economics that have forced newspapers …

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Anna Tarkov / Poynter:
Journatic CEO to staff: ‘Bumps are going to be part of the ride’

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Yahoo CEO Search in Final Stages, With Levinsohn and Kilar in Lead — According to sources close to the situation, the search for a new CEO for Yahoo is closing in on key candidates. — But, said sources, it appears to be coming down to a contest between interim Yahoo CEO Ross Levinsohn and Hulu CEO Jason Kilar.

MG Siegler:

“MG Siegler can't be trusted.” — Do you want an overview of the current state of the tech blogosphere? Click the link above. — I mean, that's seriously a story. A full story. On a site that purports to report about technology. (And congratulations: your click will undoubtedly lead to other stories just like it!)

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Adrianne Jeffries / Betabeat:
Unreliable Narrators! TechCrunch Blogger Inserted ‘Random Information (Sometimes Even False)’ Into Posts

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Mark Sweney / Guardian:

News International pays £30m to end printing contract with Johnston Press — Sun publisher denies decision to bring printing in-house is due to falling sales and News of the World closure — News International has paid £30m to terminate its printing contract with Johnston Press …

Discussion: Guardian, Press Gazette and HoldTheFrontPage

Jessica Culshaw / BBC:

BBC warns of ‘unprecedented threat’ to independent news — The BBC has today warned of an ‘unprecedented global threat to impartial and independent news’ and called on relevant authorities worldwide to protect the rights of journalists to report freely. — The call follows news …

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Guardian:

Sky News faces tweet reality — Sky News bosses battened down the hatches in February after implementing strict new rules on Twitter use, banning journalists from retweeting any news stories from rival organisations. There followed a couple of high-profile journalists leaving - coincidental …

Nikki Finke / Deadline.com:

HBO Not Proceeding With Fox News' Roger Ailes TV Movie Produced By MSNBC Rivals: “CNN Affiliation” Cited As The Reason — EXCLUSIVE UPDATE: I scooped yesterday that HBO had done a secret deal for an Untitled Roger Ailes Project being executive produced by Fox News rivals from MSNBC.

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Martin Bryant / The Next Web:

The BBC unveils its first ‘Perceptive Media’ experiment - and you can try it now — The BBC's R&D department has just demoed the first public example of what it calls ‘Perceptive Media’, and has published it online so you can try it for yourself. — What is Perceptive Media?

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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

BSkyB Study Finds U.K. Pay TV Giant Contributes $8.4 Billion to Economy — The company says it also supports 120,000 jobs as media regulator Ofcom continues to probe if it is “fit and proper” to own a broadcast license. — LONDON - British satellite TV giant BSkyB said Thursday …

Kelly Clay / Ebyline Blog:

AP Social Media Editor Eric Carvin on Twitter Policies and More — During the past year, the AP has made three rounds of sweeping changes to its social media policy that impacts AP Staff. Ebyline recently had a chance to talk with the AP's social media editor, Eric Carvin (@EricCarvin) …

Emma Bazilian / Adweek:

‘Esquire’ Takes a Page From Hollywood to Promote August Issue — You've probably seen a lifetime's worth of movie trailers for summer blockbusters this season, but what about a trailer for a summer magazine? For its August issue (on newsstands July 10) Esquire has put together a trailer …

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Tim Carmody / The Verge:

Digital, print, oral: Shakespeare's Sonnets for iPad brings reading full circle — Let's start with the various media layers gathered in this book. First, there's the Arden critical text of all 154 sonnets and A Lover's Complaint, a poem attributed to Shakespeare that was included in the first edition of the Sonnets in 1609.