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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Two Ex-Editors for Murdoch to Be Charged for Phone Hacking — LONDON - British prosecutors said Tuesday they will charge the Prime Minister's former director of communications Andy Coulson, the former head of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper business Rebekah Brooks and six others with …
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Ian Burrell / The Independent:
Day of reckoning over phone hacking will see most of News International's former hierarchy in the dock — The day of reckoning over phone hacking is almost upon us and almost the entire former hierarchy of News International will be standing in the dock. No wonder Rupert Murdoch quietly dropped …
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Baton Rouge Advocate moving into New Orleans — The Baton Rouge Advocate is expanding into New Orleans as its hometown paper The Times-Picayune has announced plans to cut staff and print frequency. “From the moment that they announced that they were going to a three-day-a-week newspaper …
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Kevin Allman / Gambit:
As the New Orleans media landscape turns ... As The Times-Picayune continues down its path of thrice-weekly-plus-occasional-Saints- Monday print publication, several local online news sources have made moves to bolster their own positions. — The New Orleans Digital News Alliance …
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JIMROMENESKO.COM, My Spilt Milk, CJR and TheLensNola.org
Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Who Can Improve on Nature? Magazine Editors — The magazine editors knew they had their cover shot. The model, just emerged from a small pond, produced a look for the camera that exuded intelligence and confidence. The only problem was the water droplets clinging to the model's ears.
Peter Lauria / Reuters:
Exclusive: IAC takes control of Newsweek Daily Beast from Harmans — (Reuters) - The family of late billionaire stereo magnate Sidney Harman has stopped investing in the Newsweek Daily Beast Co joint venture that it co-owns with Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp, according to representatives of both companies.
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Reuters editor names theater-shooting ‘person of interest’ on Twitter — To understand why Reuters Deputy Social Media Editor Matthew Keys has earned such a wide Twitter audience, scan through the last 72 hours or so of his tweets. He's been an invaluable process-journalism firehose …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
ABC News rebuts Arlene Holmes's claim
ABC News rebuts Arlene Holmes's claim
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Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:
Barry Diller And Scott Rudin In Talks To Launch E-Book Business — EXCLUSIVE: Barry Diller and Scott Rudin are in exploratory talks to launch an e-book business for both fiction and non-fiction. I'm told they have had a lot of exploratory conversations and I expect an announcement …
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Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
Detroit Free Press, News offer buyouts to staffers — The Detroit Free Press and Detroit News are offering buyouts, Poynter has confirmed. The offer was made to 31 News staffers and 40 Free Press staffers, including managers, Deadline Detroit reports. Employees age 56 and up who have worked …
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Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:
Globe publisher announces work-force reductions — The Boston Globe and its affiliated media properties are downsizing again, according to an internal memo from Globe publisher Christopher Mayer that was obtained by Media Nation earlier today. — No details, but Mayer writes that the work force …
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Poynter, Worcester Telegram & Gazette, Boston Herald and Boston Globe
CJR:
A helping hand — The Ford Foundation reaches out to broaden minority coverage — Anyone who cares about the future of newsrooms is on the lookout for omens. And there have been plenty of bad ones lately. Newspaper vital signs, for example, are pointing south—profit margins, stock prices, ad revenue, and valuations.
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Jennifer Saba / Reuters:
Dow Jones to sell newswires through WSJ.com - CEO — (Reuters) - When Lex Fenwick started his job as CEO of Dow Jones & Co more than five months ago, he found it strange that one of Wall Street's most historic and well-known brands did not have a direct pipeline into Wall Street itself.
Claude Solnik / Long Island Business News:
Newsday fires longtime reporter Jim Bernstein — Jim Bernstein, a veteran Newsday reporter whose work has been a mainstay of the publication's business section for decades, has been let go after 40 years at the newspaper. Bernstein, whose byline vanished from Newsday last week, was fired Friday …