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John Plunkett / Guardian:
BBC's Lord Patten plans to step down in 2015 — Former cabinet minister, who has been criticised over payoffs, confirms he expects to serve one four-year term as chairman — Lord Patten, the embattled chairman of the BBC Trust, has confirmed he plans to step down from the role in 2015 despite admitting the timing was “not ideal”.
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Variety and Hollywood Reporter
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Guardian:
BBC payments to senior managers rise by more than 60% — Payoffs to departing executives nearly £1.5m, with total remuneration coming to £4.13m in year to end of March — The BBC's remuneration payments to top managers leapt by more than 60% to just over £4m in the year …
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Deadline.com, Telegraph and London Evening Standard
Press Gazette:
BBC spent £5m investigating Savile scandal - including £101k on Helen Boaden's legal costs — The BBC has spent around £5 million investigating the Jimmy Savile sex scandal and its aftermath. — Its annual report and accounts reveal the Pollard Review …
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Hollywood Reporter, Sky News, Guardian, Telegraph, broadcastnow.co.uk, London News, National Updates, The Drum, itn.co.uk and BBC
Al Tompkins / Poynter:
What KTVU-TV did right after its slip-up — It has been great sport all weekend for media critics to excoriate KTVU-TV in San Francisco. There's no denying that KTVU made a big mistake. But when it sorted the mistakes out, the station did a lot that journalists should replicate.
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TVSpy, Hollywood Reporter, Media Law Prof Blog, The Wrap, The Snitch, msnbc.com, Bloomberg, GigaOM, The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed and WWNO
Associated Press:
Snowden submits request for asylum in Russia — MOSCOW (AP) — National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden on Tuesday submitted a request for temporary asylum in Russia, his lawyer said. — Anatoly Kucherena, a lawyer who is a member of the Public Chamber, a Kremlin advisory body …
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@skynewsbreak, New York Magazine, msnbc.com and Yahoo! News
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Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:
Newyorker.com Hires Business Editor — Newyorker.com hired Vauhini Vara to be the site's new business editor and expand the business coverage, editor Nicholas Thompson announced this morning. — “Vauhini is everything we want in a business reporter: she breaks news, files F.O.I.A. requests …
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Talking Biz News
Jessica Lessin:
Exclusive: Apple Pitches Ad-Skipping for New TV Service — Apple has a new trick up its sleeve as it tries to launch a long-awaited television service: technology that allows viewers to skip commercials and that pays media companies for the skipped views. — For more than a year …
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Fast Company, Los Angeles Times, CNET, UPROXX, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, SlashGear, Electronista, Variety, App Advice, Digital Spy, GigaOM, Pocket-lint, Engadget, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, The Verge, @brianstelter, MacRumors and Business Insider
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
PR Giant Edelman Calls For Ethics In Sponsored Content — The Atlantic's brief and ill-fated business relationship with the Church of Scientology awakened news publishers to the need for clear principles around the handling of paid for and produced by marketers.
Don Jeffrey / Bloomberg:
Appeals Court Denies TV Network Bid to Re-Hear Aereo Case — The broadcast television networks, which failed to persuade a panel of federal appeals judges to shut down the Barry Diller-backed online TV service Aereo Inc., lost a bid to have the case reheard by the full appellate court.
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AllThingsD
Lauren Indvik / Mashable:
Atlantic Media Launches Digital Publication, ‘Defense One’ — The Atlantic Media Company unveiled the latest addition to its digital portfolio Tuesday morning with the launch of Defense One, a web publication dedicated to national security coverage. — Under the direction …
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Nieman Journalism Lab and FishbowlNY
Christopher Williams / Telegraph:
Guardian publisher loses £31m — Guardian News & Media, the publisher of The Guardian and the Observer, lost more than half a million pounds a week last year despite a round of redundancies in its newsroom. — The Guardian and The Observer are grappling with the shift to digital from print
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Guardian, Guardian Media Group, Media Week, pressgazette.co.uk, @charliebeckett, London News and The Drum
KJRH:
Tulsa World announces reorganization plan and layoffs of 50 employees — TULSA - The Tulsa World newspaper announced Monday a reorganization plan that will result in the reduction of about 50 positions over the next several months. — Twelve positions were eliminated immediately.
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
CNN, ABC Veteran David Doss in Talks with Al Jazeera America (EXCLUSIVE) — Producer negotiating a senior editorial role but not the top CEO post — Veteran news producer David Doss is in talks for a senior editorial position with Al Jazeera America. — Doss is not a contender for the cabler's top job of president-CEO.
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
The last time Al Jazeera had a big American strategy, it was rejected
The last time Al Jazeera had a big American strategy, it was rejected
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Kirk LaPointe's …