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Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Massive bot network is draining $6 million a month from online ad industry, says report — A London analytics firm says it has identified a bot network that is tricking marketers into showing billions of ads every month to phantom visitors. The botnet reportedly relies …
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Financial Times and Wired.co.uk
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Mike Shields / Adweek:
Meet the Most Suspect Publishers on the Web — If you spend enough time in the murky world of ad exchanges, ad tech middlemen and real-time bidding software, you might come away wondering why any major brand even bothers with online advertising. — Not only are banners dull and click-through rates low …
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Guardian
Press Gazette:
Statutory press regulation regime is passed by Parliament — A cross-party deal on press regulation was cemented in the Commons as MPs passed measures which could see judges award punitive damages against publications which refuse to sign up to a new watchdog.
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Guardian, iMediaConnection Blog and pressgazette.co.uk
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BBC:
Press regulation: Papers seek legal advice
Press regulation: Papers seek legal advice
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The Sun, Telegraph, The Independent, Guardian, Daily Mail and Guardian
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Press regulation deal sparks fears of high libel fines for bloggers
Press regulation deal sparks fears of high libel fines for bloggers
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Big News Network.com, UK News and Opinion and Boing Boing
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BBC Worldwide criticised for sale of Lonely Planet at ‘significant loss’ — Travel guides sale to US billionaire Brad Kelley for £80m less than originally paid was not good business, says BBC Trust — BBC Worldwide has been criticised by the corporation's governing body for incurring a …
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Media Week, Deadline.com and Bookseller news
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Georgia Wilkins / Sydney Morning Herald:
Lonely Planet sold to US firm for $75m
Lonely Planet sold to US firm for $75m
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bbc.co.uk and Bookseller + Publisher's …
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
ABC Works on an App for Streaming Shows to Mobile Devices — THE WALT DISNEY Company, while sorting out the future of the online video Web site Hulu, has an app in the works that may render Hulu passé for some people. — The app will live stream ABC programming to the phones …
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Media Decoder, Engadget, World Internet TV on PC, Gizmodo, CNET, The Verge and AppNewser
Nasir Habib / CNN:
Pakistan arrests man in Daniel Pearl's slaying — Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — Pakistani officials have arrested a suspect in connection with the gruesome 2002 beaheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. — Qari Abdul Hayee is believed to be the one who facilitated Pearl's kidnapping, a senior Pakistani official said.
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Freya Petersen / GlobalPost:
Family of WSJ journalist Daniel Pearl, beheaded in Pakistan, welcomes arrest of suspect
Family of WSJ journalist Daniel Pearl, beheaded in Pakistan, welcomes arrest of suspect
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ABCNEWS, Washington Times, LA Observed and The Huffington Post
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
NewsCred gets new $15M investment, adds New York Times as a partner — NewsCred has become a quiet force in media by offering brands and publishers an easy way to acquire high quality news content from brands like Bloomberg and Economist. In a further sign of its growing influence …
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Media & Entertainment, Forbes, NetNewsCheck Latest, Business Insider and The Next Web
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
This Is the Scariest Statistic About the Newspaper Business Today — Here it is: In 2012, newspapers lost $16 in print ads for every $1 earned in digital ads. And it's getting worse, according to a new report by Pew. In 2011, the ratio was just 10-to-1.
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Adam Sherk, TheBlaze.com, The Week, Slate, Rehak/Stuebing Mostly Media and LA Observed
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Ebyline Blog:
Uncovering the Buffett equation for newspaper survivability — Here's how to tell if your local newspaper will survive the internet apocalypse: — Does it have a circulation of 30,000 or less? — Is it in a town with a population of less than 75,000? — Does paid weekday circulation top 25% of the total population?
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Iraq Media Failure Can Happen Again — NEW YORK — Since “Mission Accomplished” proved to be anything but, the media has done plenty of hand-wringing and soul-searching over the run-up to the Iraq War. — Major news organizations have retracted or re-examined pre-war stories, while “liberal hawks” churned out mea culpas.
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TVNewser, Poynter, Salon, New Republic, Mother Jones and bookforum.com
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Amazon Publishing promises authors faster royalty payments — Amazon Publishing said in a letter to literary agents Monday that it will start paying its authors royalties on a monthly basis, up from every three months. — “In this digital age, we don't see why authors should have to wait six months …
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PublishersWeekly.com
Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
The Washington Post to charge frequent users of its Web site — This summer, The Washington Post will start charging frequent users of its Web site, asking those who look at more than 20 articles or multimedia features a month to pay a fee, although the company has not yet decided how much it will charge.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
How Much for a How-to Lesson? Demand Media Gets Into Paid Content by Buying CreativeBug. — The Internet is swimming in how-to-guides and videos, and a lot of them are produced by Demand Media. You can see all of those for free. — But if you want to take a lesson on crocheting …
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The Next Web
Dan Elliott / Associated Press:
Jana Winter, Fox News Reporter, Fights Judge's Order To Testify About James Holmes' Notebook — DENVER — A Fox News reporter in New York is appealing a judge's order to appear in a Colorado court to reveal who told her about a notebook that movie theater shooting suspect James Holmes sent …
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Supreme Court sides with bookseller in major copyright ruling, says resale is ok — In a court ruling that has major implications for used good merchants across the country, the Supreme Court overturned a lower court decision that forbid a textbook seller from reselling textbooks that he had purchased overseas.
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PublishersWeekly.com
Katy Bachman / Adweek:
Streaming Internet Service Runs Out of Legal Moves — Ivi, a pay TV service that was streaming over-the-air TV signals on the Internet without permission, has finally reached the end of the road in court. — The Supreme Court on Monday denied the company's petition for certiorari and refused …
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New York Times, NetNewsCheck Latest and GeekWire
Roque Planas / The Huffington Post:
‘Generation Y’ Blogger Plots Unprecedented Project In Communist Cuba — Communist Cuba may soon see a non-government newspaper produced on the island. — Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez said she plans to launch an independent digital newspaper this year, and may follow with a paper edition …
Wired:
The New Rules of the Hyper-Social, Data-Driven, Actor-Friendly, Super-Seductive Platinum Age of Television — From Game of Thrones to the new Arrested Development, television is better than ever. And it's not just a lucky accident. Turns out that networks and advertisers are using all-new metrics to design hit shows.
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Gizmodo
Al Bawaba:
YouTube to allow users in Egypt and Saudi to monetize videos — YouTube, the world's largest online video community, announced that it would extend its “YouTube Partner Program” to users in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE during a press conference on Sunday.
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Wamda and The Next Web