Mediagazer: Elisabeth Murdoch, Mother of News Corp. Chief, Dies at 103 (Rachel Pannett/Wall Street Journal)

3:45 PM ET, December 5, 2012

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R. Umar Abbasi / New York Post:

Anguished fotog: Critics are unfair to condemn me — I was on an assignment, waiting for a train at the 49th Street subway platform, when I suddenly heard people gasping. The announcement had come over the loudspeaker that the train was coming — and out of the periphery of my eye …

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David Carr / Media Decoder:

Train Wreck: The New York Post's Subway Cover — “It all happened so fast.” — That's what R. Umar Abbasi, a freelance photographer for The New York Post, said of the fatal subway incident on Monday that he caught with his camera. One man threw another into harm's way, causing him to be run over by an oncoming train.

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Tom McGeveran / The New Republic:
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Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

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Eliza Gray / The New Republic:

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Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:

Twitter Loses Ability to Properly Display Instagram Photos — Welcome to the Photo Wars. — Instagram on Wednesday disabled the ability for Twitter to properly display Instagram photos on its Web site and in its applications. The move escalates tensions between the two companies …

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:
Instagram CEO feels Twitter card removal is ‘the correct thing for our business’ …

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Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:
Instagram cuts off Twitter cards integration, further souring relationship

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Rachel Pannett / Wall Street Journal:

Elisabeth Murdoch, Mother of News Corp. Chief, Dies at 103 — Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, mother of News Corp . Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch and one of Australia's most generous philanthropists, died Wednesday at age 103. — She had suffered a fall in September at her home southeast of Melbourne, in the Australian state of Victoria.

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Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:

Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, Matriarch of Journalism Family, Dies at 103 — Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, the 103-year-old mother of the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, the widow of an Australian newspaper baron and one of her nation's most noted philanthropists, died on Wednesday at her estate near Melbourne.

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Why does the paywall debate always have to become a religious war? — If there's one topic that is guaranteed to turn a roomful of mild-mannered journalists into a snarling mass of teeth and fur, it is the question of paywalls — specifically, the increasing number of paywalls that are being erected …

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Patrick Smith / TheMediaBriefing:

The science of content subscriptions: Understanding lifetime customer value and price power — The great media business model debate of our time can be simplified into three words: free versus paid. — Can free-to-air websites and apps be monetised through advertising or is paid content the way to go?

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Newspaper editors sign up to Leveson recommendations — Bosses of every significant Fleet Street paper back 40 out of 47 measures, but not proposals for statutory intervention — National newspaper editors signed up to implement all Lord Justice Leveson's non-statutory recommendations …

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Nick Allen / Telegraph: Wikipedia, the 25-year-old student and the prank that fooled Leveson

Jason Del Rey / AdAge:

Why BuzzFeed Still Doesn't Cover Business News — Took Pitches From Business Journalists Earlier This Year — “The goal is to build the next great news organization.” — That's BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith reflecting this week on his first year at the social-news publisher and the future he sees for it.

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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:

Fox News Puts Karl Rove on the Bench — The post-election soul searching going on inside the Republican Party is taking place inside Fox News as well. Fox News chief Roger Ailes, a canny marketer and protector of his network's brand, has been taking steps since November to reposition Fox …

Charlotte Cowles / New York Magazine:

Hearst's Lawyers Now E-mailing Former Unpaid Interns — Hearst's legal counsel is currently preparing to defend itself against the infamous class-action lawsuit filed earlier this year by Diana Wang, a former intern at Harper's Bazaar who has accused the company of violating federal …

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Lisa Richwine / Reuters:

Netflix says it won't raise prices after Disney deal — Netflix Inc doesn't plan to pass along the cost o f the rights to Walt Disney Co movies to subscribers, a senior Netflix executive said on Wednesday. — Netflix, which analyst s estimate paid more than $3 5 million for the exclusive rights …

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