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Wall Street Journal:
Hulu Attracts at Least Three Bids — Streaming video site Hulu attracted binding bids from suitors including satellite operator DirecTV, DTV -0.28% a partnership of AT&T Inc. T -0.70% and Chernin Group and the tandem of Guggenheim Digital Media and private-equity firm KKR, KKR +2.31% according to people familiar with the matter.
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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Hulu Sale Attracts Plenty Of Bidders, But For What, Exactly? — Most of what you need to know about the soon-to-conclude negotiations to sell Hulu can be summarized in two numbers: $2 billion and $1 billion. — The first is how much Hulu's owners — Disney, News Corp . and Comcast …
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Variety
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Former News Corp Digital Exec Jon Miller Joins Shari Redstone's Advancit as Partner — Former News Corp digital head Jon Miller has joined Advancit Capital as a partner. Advancit is an early-stage investment firm that was started two years ago by Shari Redstone and Jason Ostheimer …
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Wall Street Journal and Hollywood Reporter
Gavriel Hollander / Press Gazette:
Exaro to hand over Murdoch tape to Elveden officers as Met launches probe into Sun chief's comments — The investigative journalism website that revealed details of a meeting between Rupert Murdoch and Sun journalists arrested in connection bribing public officials has agreed to hand the recordings to the police.
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Channel 4, Guardian, Variety, Hollywood Reporter and Exaro
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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Rupert Murdoch Summoned To Parliament Again — Rupert Murdoch has been summoned to appear before a British parliamentary committee for the second time in three years. — The Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee announced Tuesday that it had voted to ask Murdoch to face new questions …
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Guardian, @lisaocarroll, Press Gazette, Salon, The Independent and @jackofkent
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Amazon's Publisher Ambitions Target Comics With New “Jet City” Imprint Launch — Amazon is about to take on Marvel and DC with a new publishing imprint for comics, the company announced today via press release. The new publishing brand is called “Jet City Comics,” and will begin …
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Business Wire, VentureBeat, The Next Web, CNET, Los Angeles Times, The Verge, PublishersWeekly.com, GalleyCat, The Huffington Post and SlashGear
Sydney Brownstone / Co.Exist:
Twitter Vs. Mainstream Media: Science Proves Which Breaks News Faster — The revolution will not be televised, but it might be tweeted. A new study shows that Twitter has a lead time on newswires for certain stories—including sports, disasters, and sometimes riots.
Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
Criticizing CNN: Goodbye to that — I used to say: I criticize because I care. But I no longer do. … As of today, I have retired from criticism of CNN for falling short of some sort of journalistic standard that news providers should maintain. That activity no longer makes sense.
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@aseitzwald, @dankennedy_nu, Mediaite and @jayrosen_nyu
Gavriel Hollander / Press Gazette:
More job losses at the Indy as 27 compulsory redundancies announced ahead of autumn relaunch — The Independent newspapers are to make 27 editorial staff redundant in the latest wave of job losses at the group. — The voluntary redundancies will cut across the Independent …
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Guardian
Riva Gold / The Atlantic Online:
Newsroom Diversity: A Casualty of Journalism's Financial Crisis — New numbers from the American Society of News Editors show that the progress of women and minorities in media has halted. — The American Society of News Editors (ASNE) recently released its annual study of newsroom diversity.
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Nieman Journalism Lab
Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:
What's next for Dish? It's got a lot of options centered around broadband — Dish Network's plans to buyout Sprint and invest in Clearwire have been dashed. Both those companies are only days away from becoming part of SoftBank's pan-Pacific empire. But that doesn't mean Dish and its wily chairman Charlie Ergen have been cowed.
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Businessweek, @robpegoraro and Associated Press
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Daily Star Sunday journalist to be charged in Operation Elveden inquiry — Tom Savage is first non-News UK journalist to be charged under investigation into alleged corrupt payments to officials — Three journalists, including the Daily Star Sunday's deputy news editor …
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Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post UK and Big News Network.com
Chris Irvine / Telegraph:
Edward Snowden ‘accepts Venezuela asylum offer’ — A Russian politician claimed Edward Snowden, the US intelligence whistleblower, had agreed to an offer of political asylum from Venezuela, only to delete a Tweet referencing the offer minutes later. — The former CIA and National Security Agency …
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RT, @skynewsbreak, The Huffington Post, Times of India, Daily Express, Fox News, Daily Mail, Agence France Presse, Sky News, The Independent, The Straits Times and CNBC