Mediagazer: Anonymous raises $54,000 to start a news site (Megan Geuss/Ars Technica)

11:20 AM ET, April 18, 2013

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Felix Gillette / Businessweek:

Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. Dodge Phone-Hacking Ruin — As Rupert Murdoch made his way into Parliament on July 19, 2011, to answer questions about the phone-hacking scandal engulfing his media empire, ruination hung in the air. Readers were boycotting his papers.

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Jeremy Hodges / Bloomberg:

Executive Editor at News Corp.'s Sun Faces Bribery Charges — The executive editor at News Corp. (NWSA)'s Sun tabloid will be charged with authorizing bribes to public officials uncovered as part of a wider probe into wrongdoing at the company's U.K. newspapers.

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The Post's ‘Person of Interest’ Is a Local High-School Track Runner — “BAG MEN,” the New York Post's front cover brays this morning, underneath a photo of two Boston Marathon spectators. “Feds seek these two pictured at Boston Marathon.” After its embarrassing performance on Monday …

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Cory Bergman / Breaking News Blog:

A tough call on a big story — A day ago, we explained how we balance speed with rumor control at Breaking News. Then we were faced with a tough decision, challenging our convictions on a very big story. — Despite three major news organizations reporting an arrest in the Boston bombings, we waited.

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Who Can Save the ‘Today’ Show? — One Wednesday last month, Ann Curry, camouflaged in a hat and trench coat, trudged into the art-deco lobby of 30 Rockefeller Plaza. It had been nine months since she was pushed out as co-host of the “Today” show. Curry was now NBC's “national …

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Joanna Stern / ABC News:

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Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

Guardian's Simon Rogers to join Twitter as data editor — Rogers will start in the new role at Twitter in San Francisco at the end of May — The editor of the Guardian's datablog and datastore, Simon Rogers, is moving to San Francisco to take up the role of data editor at Twitter at the end of May.

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Megan Geuss / Ars Technica:

Anonymous raises $54,000 to start a news site — “Your Anon News” set out to raise $2K to move from Twitter and Tumblr to a real website. — On Wednesday an Indiegogo fundraiser set up by “Jackal Anon” closed, raising $54,668 to set up a dedicated news site for Anonymous.

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Variety:

Filmmakers Lament Extinction of Film Prints … Significant cost savings in distribution drove studios to embrace digital projection of movies. Creatives still debate the technical advantages of digital vs. the romanticism of film, and preservationists fret over the fate of cinema classics.

Patrick Boehler / South China Morning Post:

New regulations in China ban journalists from quoting foreign media — On the day Chinese journalists woke up to news that the New York Times won a Pulitzer for its report on former Premier Wen Jiabao's family fortune, China's media regulator issued new regulations banning reports on foreign media coverage.

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Reuters:

Late war reporter Marie Colvin listed for top UK writing prize — (Reuters) - Veteran American war correspondent Marie Colvin who was killed in Syria last year was nominated on Thursday for the Orwell Prize, a British literary award for political writing. — Colvin, a U.S. reporter …

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Eliza Kern / paidContent:

Tumblr CEO David Karp says at least 70 users have turned blogging into book deals — Looking to find the best blog posts on Tumblr? The company isn't interested in telling you which blogs are the best, but it does want to improve the overall discovery process — and help the best bloggers find financial success.

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