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12:45 PM ET, June 13, 2013

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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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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.
Discussion: Capital New York and Variety
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:   Rupert Murdoch's New Empire: Who's Up, Who's Down (Analysis)
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 …
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.
Discussion: Free Press
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Saabira Chaudhuri / Wall Street Journal:
Gannett Expands TV Portfolio With $1.5 Billion Deal for Belo
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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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.
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.
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: 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 …
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.
Discussion: 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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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Leaked Tennis Channel email compares Comcast to ‘brutal captor’
Discussion: Deadspin and New York Times
Associated Press:
France won't support EU-US free-trade talks if film, TV industry are affected
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Wednesday Q&A: Susan Glasser on heading to Politico, the state of foreign reporting, and balancing blogs and longform
Jim Romenesko:
[UPDATED] Wall Street Journal offers buyouts
Discussion: Talking Biz News
Jared Malsin / Columbia Journalism Review:
The Iran coverage conundrum
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
David Seifman to be named political editor at ‘New York Post’
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Global study shows more journalists embrace social media — Germans, not so much
Discussion: Mediashift and FishbowlNY
Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:
Erin Lee Carr Leaves Vice for The Verge
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Los Angeles Times waits more than two years to celebrate major award
Discussion: LA Observed
Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
Web Display Ads Often Not Visible
Discussion: eMedia Vitals and AdExchanger
Stephen Shankland / CNET:
Feedly starts weaning itself from Google Reader servers
Discussion: Fast Company and Softpedia News
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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