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12:10 PM ET, June 13, 2013

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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
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Rupert Murdoch's New Empire: Who's Up, Who's Down (Analysis)  —  With News Corp.'s split set for June 28, THR breaks down the mogul's big bet on his legacy, son James' bigger role at Fox, and how to read the tea leaves.  —  For much of the first half of 2012, Rupert Murdoch struggled …
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
Jim Romenesko:
[UPDATED] Wall Street Journal offers buyouts  —  “I'm a reporter at the WSJ.  Just got a call from deputy bureau chief offering a buyout - said .  No details on payout formula.  Offer is good until June 20.  This dovetails with Robert Thomson's ‘cost cutting’ comment during investor day.”
Discussion: Talking Biz News
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
Jared Malsin / Columbia Journalism Review:
The Iran coverage conundrum
Discussion: Softpedia News
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Philip Bump / The Atlantic Wire:
Is Ed Snowden Trying to Take Control of the Next Wave of NSA Leaks?
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
Edward Wong / New York Times:
Journalist Held in Beijing, Friends Say
 

 
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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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