Mediagazer: Global Radio appeals against order to sell off GMG Radio stations (Mark Sweney/Guardian)

8:10 AM ET, June 14, 2013

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Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Global Radio appeals against order to sell off GMG Radio stations — Competition Commission ordered the sale of stations in seven areas of the UK over concerns about effect on competition — Global Radio is refusing to give up its fight to keep control GMG Radio, owner of the Real and Smooth networks …

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Christine Haughney / New York Times:

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Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:

Largest Newspaper Owner In Nation Apparently Doesn't Want To Be In Newspaper Business — Gannett, which owns the USA Today, Detroit Free Press and 80 other daily newspapers, spent $2.2 billion to buy a TV station company Thursday. Gannett now owns 43 TV stations and gets more revenue from broadcasting than newspapers.

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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
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Dan Froomkin / Columbia Journalism Review:

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Ed Christman / Hollywood Reporter:

BMI Files Suit Against Pandora — Broadcast Music Inc. is seeking a determination of rates for a blanket license for all music played on the streaming service. — BMI, Broadcast Music Inc., today filed suit at the U.S. Southern District Federal Court in New York, seeking a determination …

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Paul Sloan / CNET:

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Sarah Laskow / Columbia Journalism Review:

Reporting, or illegal hacking — Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act — The team at Scripps Howard News Service didn't use any tools that aren't used in newsrooms across the country in the regular course of reporting.

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

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Jodi Enda / Pew Research Center:

Nonprofit news organizations: some want government subsidy — News outlets often have an adversarial relationship with the government, a longstanding tension underscored most recently by the Obama administration's pursuit of leaks to the Associated Press and Fox News Channel and the decisions …