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BBC Savile inquiry: Who said what — The BBC is publishing thousands of emails and interview transcripts gathered by former head of Sky News, Nick Pollard, in his review of why BBC Newsnight axed a report into abuse by Jimmy Savile.
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
BBC Moves Former Head of News Show That Dropped Jimmy Savile Abuse Report to Archive Post — Peter Rippon, who used to be editor of “Newsnight,” will now oversee the online news archive of the U.K. public broadcaster. — LONDON - Peter Rippon, the former editor of BBC flagship news magazine Newsnight …
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Daily Mail
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
BBC releases Jimmy Savile scandal transcripts - live coverage — Corporation publishes evidence given to the Pollard inquiry into Newsnight investigation and its handling of the crisis — Sort by: — 11.26am GMT — Former BBC director general George Entwistle crowned himself …
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Telegraph, Telegraph, National Updates, @steven_swinford, @anunou, @benfenton, @legalbrat and The Independent
Telegraph:
BBC acting like ‘secret service’ by censoring criticism, Lord McAlpine says — Lord McAlpine, the former Conservative party treasurer, has accused the BBC of behaving like the “secret service” by censoring criticism of senior executives over the Jimmy Savile scandal. — Jimmy Savile
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The Independent, Sky News and National Updates
Lisa de Moraes / Washington Post:
Soledad O'Brien to leave CNN morning show to produce specials for the network — CNN is sweeping aside its morning-show host, Soledad O'Brien, to make way for new network chief Jeff Zucker's better idea: a morning show anchored by Chris Cuomo and Erin Burnett.
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AL.com, Adweek and Sturgis, MI
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Soledad O'Brien to Take on New Role at CNN
Soledad O'Brien to Take on New Role at CNN
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Mat Honan / Wired:
Zendesk Security Breach Affects Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest — Customer service software provider Zendesk announced a security breach that allowed attackers into its system, where they could access data from three customers this week. Wired learned those three clients were Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr.
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Zendesk.com, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, ZDNet, CNET, The Verge, Electronista, The Next Web, AllThingsD and Softpedia News
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Who will buy The Boston Globe? — The New York Times Co. announced Wednesday afternoon that it would seek a buyer for its New England Media Group, which includes The Boston Globe and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. — Globe and T&G employees are only some of the people who'd like to know who might buy the properties.
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The Boston Globe and Boston Herald
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Elizabeth Jensen / Media Decoder:
CNBC Buys ‘Nightly Business Report’ From Atalaya — “Nightly Business Report,” the pioneer public television series that has struggled in recent years, is getting a new, deep-pocketed commercial owner, the 24-hour business cable channel CNBC, a unit of Comcast's NBCUniversal.
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Broadcasting & Cable and The Tell
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Steven Brill Calls New Republic Owner Chris Hughes A ‘Liar’ After Falling Out Over Cover Story — NEW YORK — On Thursday, Time magazine published Steven Brill's deeply reported, 24,000-word cover story on America's health care system, the longest article by one writer the magazine has ever published.
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New York Magazine and The New York Observer
Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:
Guess Which Buzzfeed Piece Is An Ad — Since I'm going to be discussing forms of new media revenue with Friend of the Dish, Ben Smith, later today, I though it might be worth noting some aspects of Buzzfeed's innovative model, i.e. “sponsored content” or “native advertizing”.
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Nielsen Adjusts Its Ratings to Add Web-Linked TVs — Updated — For media executives, there may be nothing worse than a viewer or listener who is not counted. — On Thursday, in a move that might help ease those concerns, Nielsen said that it would start considering Americans who have spurned cable …
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Los Angeles Times, AdAge, GeekWire, paidContent, Deadline.com, multichannel.com/rss, ReadWrite, Engadget, www.wnyc.org and Radio & Television …
BBC:
BBC releases Savile inquiry papers — The BBC has published thousands of pages of transcripts from an inquiry into why Newsnight dropped its probe into abuse by Jimmy Savile. — It includes interviews with BBC bosses and journalists, and emails and texts - but some details have been removed.
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@julian5news, @benfenton and National Updates
Staci D. Kramer / Trust But Verify:
Media Companies Abruptly Shut Down quadrantOne — And another grand plan by major publishers bites the dust. Tribune, Gannett, the New York Times Co. and Hearst have shut down quadrantOne effective immediately. The agency was an attempt to scale local for national display advertising …
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Authors Buy Their Way Onto Best-Seller Lists — How Are Some Authors Landing On Best-Seller Lists? They're Buying Their Way — Last August, a book titled “Leapfrogging” hit The Wall Street Journal's list of best-selling business titles upon its debut. The following week, sales of the book …
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Fox Asks Judge to Stop Dish's New Ad-Skipper (Exclusive) — Six weeks after Dish adds place-shifting to its Hopper service, now called “Dish Anywhere,” Fox files new court papers in another attempt at an injunction. — Fox Television is again making an attempt to shut down Dish Network's advertising-skipping DVR services.
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Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:
Germans can't see meteorite YouTube videos due to copyright dispute — German rights group wants $0.005 per stream and Google says nein. — Last week, when the world was watching crazy Russian meteorite videos on YouTube, Germans weren't. — As a result of an ongoing dispute between Google …
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