Mediagazer: Phone-hacking claimants drop demand for exemplary damages (Lisa O'Carroll/Guardian)

12:35 PM ET, September 27, 2012

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Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:

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Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:

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Amy Chozick / New York Times:

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Bloomberg:

Dish Said to Be in Talks With Viacom About Internet TV — Dish Network Corp. (DISH) is talking to networks such as Viacom (VIAB) Inc.'s MTV about offering their channels over the Internet, a service that could shift the economics of the pay-TV industry, five people familiar with the plan said.

Jim Romenesko:

Bryan College: Ordering student newspaper to kill story about prof's arrest ‘may have been a mistake’ — Bryan College sent this statement from President Dr. Stephen Livesay about his decision to order the student newspaper to kill its story about a professor arrested for attempted child exploitation.

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Jim Romenesko:
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Josh Sternberg / Digiday:

The Atlantic Tries Native Ads — Jay Lauf, The Atlantic's publisher, swears he doesn't hate banner ads. The thing is, he thinks most are a waste of space for all involved. — “I would love to eliminate banners because I think most of them don't work,” said Lauf, who also has some experience as a journalist.

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Erin Gloria Ryan / Jezebel:

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Phone-hacking claimants drop demand for exemplary damages — Lawyers acting for more than 170 alleged phone-hacking victims, including Cherie Blair and Wayne Rooney, have dropped their claim for exemplary damages, the high court has been told, as News International accused them of seeking “windfall” payouts.

The Smoking Gun:

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Alexander Abad-Santos / The Atlantic Wire:

Women Editors-in-Chief Make $15,000 Less Than Men — The only thing equal is the job title. Even though there are stories of editors like Anna Wintour and Janice Min pocketing seven-figure salaries, Folio magazine's annual compensation survey found that on average, male editors-in-chief …

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Quartz's practice of ‘linking out’ renews attention to aggregation debate — CJR's Hazel Sheffield took a look at the new publication Quartz and didn't like a few things: links take you away from the site, there's no commenting, infographics aren't interactive and It didn't have enough original content when she looked at it.

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Adam Martin / The Atlantic Wire:

Margaret Sullivan: What I Read — How do people deal with the torrent of information pouring down on us all? What sources can't they live without? We regularly reach out to prominent figures in media, entertainment, politics, the arts, and the literary world to hear their answers.

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