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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Newspaper groups threaten to boycott new press regulator — Owners of Sun, Telegraph and Daily Mail say they may set up own watchdog if government opts for statutory underpinning — Three of the country's biggest newspaper groups, including the owners of the Daily Mail and the Sun …
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Big News Network.com
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BBC:
Press regulation deal struck by parties - Labour — Party leaders were in talks during the weekend — A deal has been struck between the three main political parties on measures to regulate the press, Labour's Harriet Harman say. — It comes after talks were held overnight between …
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Digital Spy, Guardian, Guardian, Telegraph, Sky News, The Independent, New York Times, Associated Press and Big News Network.com
Patrick Wintour / Guardian:
Press regulation deal: the key points — The main sticking points in the post-Leveson discussions that were ironed out during late-night discussions — • A royal charter — The royal charter will be entrenched through statute so that it cannot be changed by ministers …
Wall Street Journal:
Bribery Allegations Surfaced Against WSJ in China — The Justice Department last year opened an investigation into allegations that employees at The Wall Street Journal's China news bureau bribed Chinese officials for information for news articles. — A search by the Journal's parent company found …
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Quartz, Guardian, New York Times, The Huffington Post and Talking Biz News
Camille Dodero / Gawker:
Newspapering Is a Business: The Death of the Legendary Boston Phoenix — Yesterday, the Boston Phoenix announced that the alternative-newsweekly would stop publishing after 47 years. I learned this by phone, from someone who'd been a colleague of mine there, while the paper was experimenting with editors …
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blog.thephoenix.com and Grantland
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Jack Shafer:
The long, slow decline of alt-weeklies
The long, slow decline of alt-weeklies
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Poynter, @susie_c, @edmundlee, @mjfuhlhage and The Boston Globe
Susan Orlean / New Yorker:
Memories of the Phoenix — I attended the University of Michigan …
Memories of the Phoenix — I attended the University of Michigan …
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Nieman Journalism Lab
Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider:
Twitter Just Crushed Wall Street After The Cyprus Bailout — This process has been happening for a long time, but for those in finance, the value of Twitter is increasingly equaling or surpassing the value of traditional sell-side research from Wall Street analysts.
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Some of it was true, The Daily Beast, Paul Krugman, Felix Salmon, Quartz, Forbes and @ldrogen
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The newsonomics of a news company of the future — What will news companies look like in 2018? How will they operate differently? — That future is coming into focus. While many publishers' vision is still quite blurry, it's the Financial Times that is clearest-eyed about its roadmap and its future.
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Kirk LaPointe's …, AdExchanger, ftresponse.blog.com and eMedia Vitals
Benj Edwards / The Atlantic Online:
The Copyright Rule We Need to Repeal If We Want to Preserve Our Cultural Heritage — The anti-circumvention section of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act threatens to make archivists criminals if they try to preserve our society's artifacts for future generations.
Kia Makarechi / The Huffington Post:
CNN Under Fire For Coverage Of Rape Trial — CNN's coverage of the verdict in the Steubenville rape case appeared to be curiously weighted on Sunday, focusing on the effect the guilty verdict would have on the lives of the now-convicted rapists and their families, rather than that of the victim and her family.
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CNN, The Raw Story, Gawker, HyperVocal and @olivia_collette
Howard Fineman / The Huffington Post:
Iraq War 10th Anniversary Reminds Us Of The Questions We Didn't Ask — WASHINGTON — The conference room on Air Force One looks like any other conference room, except that the chairs at the big oak table slide on tracks and have seat belts. — On Thanksgiving 2001, I was sitting …
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@jayrosen_nyu
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
With Pulse Following Zite's Lead, Mark Johnson Talks About News Reading App Landscape — Earlier this week, I reported that LinkedIn was readying a purchase of Pulse, one of the more popular of the many news reader apps, for upward of $50 million. — By coincidence, only days before …
Felix Gillette / Businessweek:
Meredith, the Publishing Company That Beat the Internet — On the eve of Valentine's Day, news of a surprising courtship roiled the magazine industry. Meredith (MDP), the demure Iowa-based publisher of upbeat women's service magazines (including Better Homes and Gardens, Ladies' Home Journal …