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Deadline.com:
News Corp's Rupert Murdoch Files For Divorce — UPDATE: Early signs are that the divorce will not impact Murdoch's media holdings. New Corp is in the process of spinning off its publishing assets into a separately traded company. Murdoch will control both of these entities.
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Business Insider, @amychozick, The Huffington Post, The Atlantic Wire, The Daily Beast, trust.org, @amychozick, @mlcalderone, @emilybell and @dgelles
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Brent Lang / The Wrap:
Shares of 21st Century Fox, New News Corp. to Begin Trading Next Week — Shares of the two companies will trade on the NASDAQ — News Corp. said Thursday that shares of the two new companies it will soon become will begin trading next Wednesday on the NASDAQ.
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Capital New York and Variety
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Greek state TV switched back on as European broadcasters step in — ERT feed taken from studio and retransmitted into Greek homes over prepaid satellite link by EBU — Greek state TV was dramatically switched on again on Thursday after broadcasters across Europe stepped in to try and keep ERT on air …
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Niki Kitsantonis / New York Times:
Greek Workers Strike to Protest Shutdown of State Broadcaster — ATHENS — Thousands of Greeks walked off the job on Thursday in the third general strike of the year, this time called by labor unions to protest a surprise decision by the conservative-led government to close the state broadcaster …
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Al Jazeera English, New York Times, The Huffington Post and TVWeek.com
Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Gannett's deal for Belo worries media watchdogs — Gannett Co.'s proposed acquisition of Belo Corp. is the latest in a slew of deals in the television industry. — Last week, Media General acquired Young Broadcasting to create a company that will own 30 TV stations in 27 markets.
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Free Press
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Saabira Chaudhuri / Wall Street Journal:
Gannett Expands TV Portfolio With $1.5 Billion Deal for Belo
Gannett Expands TV Portfolio With $1.5 Billion Deal for Belo
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USA Today, JIMROMENESKO.COM, NetNewsCheck Latest, Variety, Poynter, Belo Corp., Broadcasting & Cable, Wall Street Journal, AllThingsD, DealBook, Reuters, AdAge, Bloomberg, Deadline.com, Houston Chronicle, Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, TheStreet.com, Reuters, @jayrosen_nyu, @bobbymacreports, @edmundlee, @edmundlee, RTTNews and @jcstearns
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Apple's e-Book Market Share On The Rise, Desktop OS X iBooks Launch Should Help — Apple has been quietly growing its share of the U.S. e-book market according to its testimony during the current e-book price-fixing court case against it, and now accounts for 20 percent of e-book sales overall stateside (via MacRumors).
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paidContent, AllThingsD, Bloomberg, SlashGear, Engadget, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider and MacRumors
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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
DOJ Misfires on Jobs Email in Apple E-Book Case — It Was a Discarded Draft
DOJ Misfires on Jobs Email in Apple E-Book Case — It Was a Discarded Draft
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Publishers Weekly, TUAW, CNET, Wall Street Journal, MacRumors, AppleInsider and Fortune
Associated Press:
Fox reporter's lawyers seek to keep sources secret — NEW YORK—Lawyers for a Fox News reporter who is being asked to name her sources for a story on last year's Colorado theater shooting urged a New York appeals court Wednesday to quash a subpoena that requires her to appear at a hearing in the state.
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Poynter, TVNewser, Big News Network.com and Reuters
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Gatekeepers of Cable TV Try to Stop Intel — WASHINGTON — As Intel tries something audacious — the creation of a virtual cable service that would sell a bundle of television channels to subscribers over the Internet — it is running up against a multibillion-dollar barricade.
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Hillicon Valley
The Huffington Post:
ABC News Will Return To State Court — SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday moved a South Dakota beef processing company's defamation lawsuit against ABC News back to state court. — Beef Products Inc. sued American Broadcasting Companies Inc. and ABC News Inc. for defamation …
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TVNewser
Ed Christman / Billboard:
BMI to Sue Pandora: Sources — In the wake of Pandora's controversial move in an attempt to pay lower publishing rates by acquiring a terrestrial radio station in South Dakota (so that the company may be eligible for the blanket license fee of 1.7% of advertising rate negotiated …
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VentureBeat, PC Magazine, WSJ Blogs - WSJ, The Verge, Businessweek and Hillicon Valley
Sam Thielman / Adweek:
Social TV Use Appears to Be Growing — Did you know you're more likely to immediately tell all your Facebook friends about the terrible thing Kim Kardashian just said than you are to tweet during the show about [redacted] dying a horrible death on Game of Thrones?
Amir Efrati / Digits:
In Online Ads, There's Google-and Then Everybody Else — It may not surprise anyone to read that Web juggernaut Google is the No. 1 seller of online advertising by orders of magnitude over its competitors. Thanks to research firm eMarketer, however, we now have a global leaderboard that puts it into perspective.
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Forbes
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Yahoo to broadcast Sky News morning show across website network — Sunrise and three new video series will be hosted in online hub, with internet giant getting access to Sky News live feeds — Yahoo has struck a deal with Sky News to broadcast Sunrise, its flagship morning news show presented …
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Pocket-lint, Engadget, Broadband TV News, imediamonkey, The Drum and Digital TV Europe