Mediagazer: New BBC director general begins task of mending corporation's reputation (Guardian)

5:00 PM ET, April 1, 2013

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T.C. Sottek / The Verge:

Aereo wins major court battle against TV networks — The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has just rejected an appeal from TV networks against Aereo, concluding that Aereo's system does not infringe the broadcaster's copyrights. Broadcasters argued that unlike Cablevision …

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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
TV Service Providers Held Talks With Aereo

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David Carr / New York Times:

Columbia Looks Ahead in an Age of Disruption — Entering Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism on the Upper West Side of New York, there is academic majesty wherever you look. — Past the lamps with the iron claws and the statue of Jefferson ("Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press" …

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Lizzie Widdicombe / New Yorker:

The Vice Guide to the World — Late in February, in the Ryugyong Chung Ju-yung Indoor Stadium, in Pyongyang, North Korea, ten thousand stiff-looking spectators in gray Mao suits gathered to watch a basketball game. Vice Media, the Brooklyn-based company, had arranged to have members …

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Reuters:

Capitol wins digital records lawsuit vs ReDigi start-up — (Reuters) - In a major lawsuit testing the legitimacy of music downloads, Capitol Records LLC has won a court ruling that the start-up ReDigi Inc has infringed its music copyrights. — U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan in Manhattan …

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David Kravets / Wired:
Reselling Digital Goods Is Copyright Infringement, Judge Rules

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Cary Spivak / American Journalism Review:

Solving the Hyperlocal Puzzle — Joe Ricketts doesn't think small. Ricketts helped revolutionize online stock market trading by creating TD Ameritrade. More recently, he has been using his money to torment President Barack Obama and — with family members — buy the Chicago Cubs.

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Mathew Ingram / paidContent:

Henry Blodget says Business Insider is growing, but it's still losing money — When Business Insider founder Henry Blodget opened up about his website's traffic and business model a few months ago, we noted that he didn't reveal the most important thing about it — namely, whether it was profitable or not.

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Michael Wolff / USA Today:

Someone at NBC should be fired — Comcast's Steve Burke has landed in the middle of an old-fashioned network drama at NBCUniversal — Brian Stelter, a young reporter who covers the television industry for The New York Times, has been tweeting a countdown to the publication of his new book about morning television.

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

Nat'l Magazine Award finalists announced — The American Society of Magazine Editors has announced the finalists for the 2013 National Magazine Awards, or Ellies, which are considered the most prestigious awards in the industry. — On the political front, Bloomberg Businessweek's …

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Nancy Benac / Associated Press:

Obama 'Limiting Press Access In Ways That Past Administrations Wouldn't Have Dared' — WASHINGTON (AP) — A photo of the Obamas hugging that was released on Election Day 2012 has become the world's most popular tweet on Twitter. A dressed-up version of Barack Obama's State of the Union speech …

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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

The Big Roundtable Rethinks The Editorial Model For Long-Form Journalism, Hits Its Kickstarter Goal — Michael Shapiro isn't the sort of person I'd expect to circumvent the gatekeepers of traditional journalism. He's a professor at the Columbia School of Journalism, and he said he's …

Guardian:

New BBC director general begins task of mending corporation's reputation — Tony Hall will spend first day speaking to staff as he embarks on restoring public confidence in corporation after Savile scandal — Tony Hall will begin the job of repairing the BBC's battered reputation when he takes …

Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

Viacom, YouTube Spar Again Over Billion Dollar Copyright Lawsuit — Each side believes the other is shifting the burden of showing what YouTube knew as a judge prepares to rule on whether the high-profile case goes to trial or not. — Before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals handed …