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4:10 AM ET, July 5, 2013

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Nitasha Tiku / Gawker:
Rupert Murdoch Caught on Tape: “We Will Hit Back”  —  ExaroNews a British investigative web site, has just published the full transcript of a secretly recorded meeting between media mogul Rupert Murdoch and the staff of The Sun, a U.K. tabloid owned by News Corp., in which Murdoch admitted …
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Rupert Murdoch Tape: British Politician Urges Police to Question Media Mogul  —  Parliamentarian Tom Watson wants the News Corp chairman interviewed about “what he did know about criminality in his organization.”  —  LONDON - British politician Tom Watson has urged police …
Andy Davies / Channel 4:
Revealed: the Rupert Murdoch tape  —  “Incompetent” cops, regrets over his own investigation, promises to protect Sun journalists: a secret recording reveals Rupert Murdoch's real attitudes to the scandal that has engulfed his empire.  —  Watch Channel 4 News from 7pm to hear the audio recording
Eleanor Beardsley / Europe:
An Online Upstart Roils French Media, Politics … Every week, it seems, a new scandal is unearthed by the upstart, online newspaper Mediapart.  The most recent bomb was that President Francois Hollande's budget minister was evading taxes when he was supposed to be cracking down on tax cheats.
Andy / TorrentFreak:
RIAA Hits 25 Million Google Takedowns, Web Blocking Making Things Worse  —  Back in May the RIAA reached a historic milestone in its quest to remove copyright-infringing links from the Internet.  —  The music industry group asked Google to remove the 20 millionth URL from its indexes …
Discussion: Softpedia News
Al Jazeera English:
Egyptian authorities target Al Jazeera  —  Al Jazeera is demanding the immediate release of its staff members detained overnight in the capital, Cairo.  —  Egyptian forces raided Al Jazeera premises overnight.  Twenty-eight Al Jazeera Mubasher Misr staff members were detained, with most released later.
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RT:
Al Jazeera, other TV stations forced off air in Egypt
Sara Morrison / The Wrap:
Soledad O'Brien Is Her Own Boss — and That Means No Jodi Arias Stories  —  “You get to a certain point in your career where you say I want to now cover what I want to cover,” the former CNN anchor tells TheWrap  —  Soledad O'Brien was announced as Al Jazeera America's special correspondent on Monday …
Alex Kantrowitz / Mediashift:
The Secret Behind The Turkish Protesters' Social Media Mastery  —  Since the end of May, thousands of protesters have taken to the streets across Turkey, using social media with great skill to propel their rebuke of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan forward.
Discussion: Forbes
Helienne Lindvall / Guardian:
Pre-release music: will a ‘promo service’ help stop leaks?  —  Promo Hutt allows fans to subscribe to their favourite labels and receive access to new tracks up to six weeks upfront  —  A multitude of artists have vented their frustration over pre-release leaks of their music.
Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal:
Southwest Offers Free In-Flight TV in Partnership With Dish Network  —  Southwest Airlines Co. is offering free live television to fliers' smartphones, tablets and laptops under a partnership unveiled Monday with Dish Network Corp.  —  The move that marks a departure from other airlines' strategies …
Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
No Quid Pro Quo by You're the Boss Writer, but Intrigue, Anyway  —  Ed Zitron may not be the savviest public relations person around.  When he e-mailed a New York Times business editor, he asked for the strictest anonymity about his complaint: that a writer for the You're the Boss small-business blog …
Discussion: Talking Biz News and @sulliview
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Yahoo Acquires Xobni for Upward of $30 Million (Like ATD Said, Part 2)  —  Yahoo said it has bought Xobni, as AllThingsD had previously reported it was planning to do.  —  According to numerous sources close to the company, Yahoo paid $30 million to $40 million for the maker of address book apps and plugins.
 
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