Mediagazer: The Advance Publications name game (Ryan Chittum/Columbia Journalism Review)

10:00 AM ET, June 19, 2013

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Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:

Michael Hastings, ‘Rolling Stone’ Contributor, Dead at 33 — The bold journalist died in a car accident in Los Angeles — Michael Hastings, the fearless journalist whose reporting brought down the career of General Stanley McChrystal, has died in a car accident in Los Angeles, Rolling Stone has learned.

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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:

Missing Michael Hastings — One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn't live to write. — Michael Hastings was really only interested in writing stories someone didn't want him to write — often his subjects; occasionally his editor.

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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Michael Hastings - journalists pay tribute to ‘fearless’ war correspondent

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Guardian:

Rupert Murdoch donates $50,000 in memory of late correspondent — News Corp founder gives gift to Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting as his company prepares for de-merger — Rupert Murdoch has donated $50,000 (£32,000) to a New York university in memory …

Dominic Rushe / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch splits empire but keeps faith in tomorrow's newspapers

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Craig Timberg / Washington Post:

Google challenges U.S. gag order, citing First Amendment — Google asked the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday to ease long-standing gag orders over data requests the court makes, arguing that the company has a constitutional right to speak about information it is forced to give the government.

Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times:
Yahoo discloses how much government data requests it gets

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Ben Woods / The Next Web:

BT chief steps down to take UK government role as Sky Sports battle intensifies — Ian Livingstone, the chief executive of BT is stepping down from his role at the head of the company to take up the position of Minister of State for Trade and Investment in the UK.

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
U.K. Regulator Launches Review of BT Competition Complaint Against BSkyB

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Josh Sternberg / Digiday:

How PBS Won at Digital — Millions of Americans can point to PBS as a third parent, as the network that helped raise them with programs like “Sesame Street” and “Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood.” — But PBS is not immune to the transition from analog to digital and needs to continually reinvent itself.

Beth Healy / The Boston Globe:

At least 8 potential purchasers may give offers to Times Co. — At least eight potential buyers, ranging from former newspaper executives with local roots to private equity investors from the West Coast, are weighing bids for The Boston Globe as the June 27 deadline for submitting offers approaches …

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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:

The Advance Publications name game — The old Newhouse Pledge and the company's corporate shuffle — The Oregonian is about to get Newhouse'd. — As the billionaires' Advance Publications has rolled out its newspaper-liquidation plan across the country, it has engaged in a curious bit of corporate name-shuffling.

John Reynolds / Guardian:

P Diddy to launch cable music channel Revolt TV — US hip-hop star aims to fill gap left when MTV stopped playing music videos with the ‘first channel of the social media age’ — Sean “P Diddy” Combs is to launch a cable music channel, Revolt TV, which he claims will be the …

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

UK newspapers' print ad revenue ‘to shrink by £400m by the end of 2014’ — Group M forecasts digital media will help drive rise in overall UK ad spend - but regional press in particular will suffer — Almost £400m in print advertising is forecast to be lost from the UK newspaper market …

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Janko Roettgers / paidContent:

Yet another YouTube funding: Bedrocket invests in Shira Lazar's What's Trending — Thought there was no money in producing original content for YouTube's audience? The folks at Bedrocket Entertainment beg to differ — and just invested in What's Trending.

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Telegraph:

BBC spent £28m of licence-fee payers' money gagging 500 staff — The BBC has used licence fee payers' money to buy the silence of more than 500 staff with payouts of up to £500,000 each. — According to figures released under Freedom of Information, in the past five years 539 staff …

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Esther Zuckerman / The Atlantic Wire:

Amazon Wants to Create Appointment TV Online, Not Follow Netflix Binging — Though Netflix may have emerged as the frontrunner when it comes to original streaming content, what with the successes of House of Cards and Arrested Development, don't expect Amazon to be following in its footsteps entirely.

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