Mediagazer: U.K. Won't Charge Australian Radio DJs Over Kate Middleton Hoax Call (Stuart Kemp/Hollywood Reporter)

9:00 AM ET, February 1, 2013

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Chinese Hackers Targeted Wall Street Journal Computers — The Wall Street Journal said Thursday that its computer systems had been infiltrated by Chinese hackers for the apparent purpose of monitoring the newspaper's China coverage. — The infiltration at the Journal …

Dan Amira / New York Magazine:
The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News Also Got Hacked by China, Are Important

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Dylan Byers / Politico:
China blacks out CNN International

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AFP:
China: claims of hacking NY Times ‘groundless’

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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
News websites falling victim to online hackers

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Julie Moos / Poynter:

Ed Koch's grave marker is inscribed with journalist Daniel Pearl's last words — Former New York City mayor Ed Koch died Friday morning at the age of 88. He plans to be buried in Manhattan, the three-term mayor said in 2008. His headstone and a memorial bench, placed at Trinity Church Cemetery in 2009 …

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TV Networks Have No ‘Birth Right’ to Carriage: Time Warner Cable Boss — Subscribers See 'Too Many Networks I Don't Watch,' Britt Says — Time Warner Cable, the second- largest U.S. cable-TV operator, plans to keep scrutinizing and pressuring small cable channels even though they aren't the problem …

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Anthony Crupi / Adweek: Time Warner Cable Boss Glenn Britt Defends MSO's Pricey Sports Rights Deals

Alex Sherman / Bloomberg:
Time Warner Cable Falls as Forecast Misses Analysts' Estimates

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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Time Warner Cable chief defends pricey sports deals

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

New Way to Deliver a Drama: All 13 Episodes in One Sitting — Television producers have turned bingeing, hoarding and overeating into successful prime-time shows for years, but now they are having to turn their attention to another example of overindulgence — TV watching.

Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:

New Owner for Manhattan Newspaper Group — Publisher Purchases Group That Owns Titles Such as Our Town, West Side Spirit — Manhattan Newspaper Group, which counts the West Side Spirit, NYPress.com and Our Town among its collection of community publications, has been sold to Straus News …

Erik Maza / WWD:

W Magazine to Reduce Frequency — DOWN TWO: It appears even healthy ad pages aren't enough to keep magazines from reducing frequency. Condé Nast said Thursday it was scaling back W magazine, which had been performing relatively well among advertisers, to 10 issues a year from a monthly.

Tim Carmody / The Verge:

CNET loses CES awards following Dish Hopper controversy; DVR named ‘Best In Show’ — The Hopper with Sling will be named co-winner of ‘Best In Show’ alongside official CNET choice the Razer Edge — The Consumer Electronics Association has issued a press release awarding the Dish Hopper …

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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
CES severs ties with CBS over Dish Hopper coverage

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New Yorker to Launch New Online Verticals — The New Yorker, which has launched several new Web channels over the past year, is continuing its digital expansion with the launch of two new channels—one dedicated to Science and Technology and the other to Business—in the coming months.

Janko Roettgers / paidContent:

New numbers show: Microsoft moves more media than you might think — Everyone was focused on the fact that consumers still buy plenty of DVDs and Blu-ray discs when the NPD Group published its 2012 Home Video Data report this week. It's true: 61 percent of all U.S.-based transactional home …

Stuart Kemp / Hollywood Reporter:

U.K. Won't Charge Australian Radio DJs Over Kate Middleton Hoax Call — Britain's Crown Prosecution Service describes the call to a hospital, which was linked to a nurse's suicide, as a harmless prank with “very sad” consequences. — LONDON - The two Australian DJs involved …

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Erik Larson / Bloomberg:

London Cop Gets 15 Months in News Corp. Tabloid Bribery Case — A London police detective was sentenced to 15 months in prison for trying to sell information about a phone-hacking probe in 2010 to News Corp.'s News of the World tabloid, which was being investigated.

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Bloomberg:

Apple TV Said to Start Carrying HBO App Later This Year — Apple Inc. (AAPL) is in negotiations to start carrying Time Warner Inc. (TWX)'s HBO Go application on Apple TV by mid-2013, according to two people familiar with the plans. — Cable and satellite subscribers who pay for HBO …

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Judith Messina / Crain's New York Business:

British giant bulks up in NYC — Mail Online, the British celebrity and entertainment news site, is making a major push into the U.S. advertising market. Owned by the British tabloid newspaper the Daily Mail, the four-year-old site is already the third most popular newspaper site in the U.S., with 20 million unique visitors a month.

Reuters:

Journalist fights request to testify in Colorado shooting case — (Reuters) - A Fox News journalist ordered to testify about confidential sources used in a story about the Colorado theater shooting will fight the ruling, court papers showed on Thursday. — Arapahoe County District Judge …

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