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Sandra Laville / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch admits error in criticism of police investigations — Media mogul writes to MP Keith Vaz to retract ‘incompetence’ remark but says inquiries have taken too long — Read the full text of Murdoch's letter to Vaz — Rupert Murdoch has admitted he was wrong to describe phone-hacking …
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Variety, Hollywood Reporter, @chucktodd and Crikey
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘New York Post’ gears up for early August web relaunch — Late last month, Robert Thomson, C.E.O. of the new publishing-focused iteration of News Corp., told The Financial Times that the New York Post was working on a plan to compete nationally with large, well-financed digital media brands like Buzzfeed.
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David Freedlander / The Daily Beast:
New York Post Looks Thinner After News Corporation Split — It's been a while since Rupert Murdoch's New York tabloid has had a jaw-dropping scoop—or a front page that went viral. And some laid-off staffers aren't being replaced. David Freedlander on why staffers are worried.
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The Wrap
Kevin Roose / New York Magazine:
Let Tech Blogs Celebrate Start-Ups — Sarah Lacy, in her TechCrunch days, interviewing Keith Rabois, formerly of Square. — Sarah Lacy is having a rough month. The founder of tech blog PandoDaily and perennial Valleywag target first ignited criticism with inflammatory comments …
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PandoDaily, @moorehn, @abrams, @reformedbroker, @digidave, @stevesilberman, @tcarmody, @rafat, @moorehn, @tcarmody, Talking Biz News, @abargmann, @alexjamesfitz, @jason_pontin, @calebgarling, @jason_pontin, @davidlongobardi, @charlesarthur, @cwarzel, @alexia, @moorehn, @jayrosen_nyu, Nieman Journalism Lab and Business Insider
Kevin Poulsen / Wired:
MIT Moves to Intervene in Release of Aaron Swartz's Secret Service File — Lawyers representing MIT are filing a motion to intervene in my FOIA lawsuit over thousands of pages of Secret Service documents about the late activist and coder Aaron Swartz. — I am the plaintiff in this lawsuit.
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Business Insider, Boston Globe, @biellacoleman, @mofame, @jcstearns, The Verge, @sinabahram, @quinnnorton and @emptywheel
Erin Banco / New York Times:
Judge in Manning Case Allows Charge of Aiding the Enemy — The military judge in the trial of Pfc. Bradley Manning decided on Thursday not to drop a charge accusing Private Manning of “aiding the enemy.” If he is found guilty of the charge, he faces a life sentence in military custody with no chance of parole.
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Guardian, Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Amnesty International, Reuters, Kirk LaPointe's …, NPR and New York Magazine
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Emma Bazilian / Adweek:
Condé Nast Touts Biggest September in Five Years — Fashion bible Vogue seems to be the winner in the September ad page race so far. — The Condé Nast book weighed in last year at 658 ad pages; this year, publisher Susan Plagemann added 1 percentage point for a total of 665 total ad pages.
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Folio, AdAge, Mashable, WWD Media Headlines, FishbowlNY and The Huffington Post
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Erik Maza / WWD:
Ad Sales Tick Up for September Issues
Dorothy Pomerantz / Forbes:
Don't Get Too Excited About Those Netflix Emmy Nominations — The fact that Netflix scored 14 nods at this morning's Emmy Awards nominations is the story of the day. Until recently, Netflix was a tech company distributing content that other companies made. Now, suddenly, it's a player in creating that content.
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B&C, TechCrunch, Speakeasy, Home Media Magazine, Variety, AllThingsD, @atdmedia, New Yorker, /Film, Media & Entertainment, Media Money … and Digits
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Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:
Netflix's “House of Cards” gets first major Emmy nominations for online-only show
Netflix's “House of Cards” gets first major Emmy nominations for online-only show
Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
Netflix Needs To Turn Emmy Nominations Into Subscribers
Netflix Needs To Turn Emmy Nominations Into Subscribers
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Daily Dot
Max Read / Gawker:
Incredible Photos Capture Last Moments of Boston Bombing Manhunt — In response to the Rolling Stone cover featuring Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Instagram selfie, Boston magazine has published a number incredible of photos from behind the scenes of the manhunt that captured the accused Boston bomber …
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Boston Magazine, JIMROMENESKO.COM, @johnwolfson, CNN, Poynter, NPR, The Wrap, Yahoo! News, TechCrunch, Mediaite, BAGnewsNotes, Media Nation, Hit & Run, WBUR, Guardian, @johnwolfson, @johnwolfson, The Wrap, CBS News, @hunterw and Erik Wemple
Tim Kenneally / The Wrap:
Former Fox Exec Mike Darnell Moving to Warner Bros. TV — New position will put him in charge of unscripted programming for the production company behind “American Idol” rival “The Voice” — It looks like Mike Darnell has found a new gig. — Darnell, who until the end of June had served …
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B&C, Associated Press, Digital Spy, Reuters, Variety and Broadcasting & Cable
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Vivendi Declined SoftBank's Lucrative Offer for Universal — Vivendi, the French media and telecommunications conglomerate, rejected an $8.5 billion cash bid from SoftBank for the Universal Music Group, even though it represented a premium of at least $2 billion more than some analysts' estimates …
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Financial Times, The Verge, Billboard, Reuters and @pkafka
Carrie Johnson / NPR:
Justice's Rules Mean Reporter Need Not Testify, Lawyer Says — A lawyer for New York Times reporter James Risen is citing new Justice Department guidelines about when to subpoena journalists to support his argument that Risen is covered by a common-law reporter's privilege and need not testify …
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emptywheel
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
What Will It Take To Make Cheap Over-The-Top TV Viable? — In theory, there are any number of reasons why a person might eschew a cable or satellite subscription and choose to get his television over a broadband connection, ie. over the top. Maybe he has a demanding job that makes it impossible to wait around for the cable guy.
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Corporate Intelligence, Policy Blog and TechSpot
Steve Jordon / Omaha World-Herald:
Warren Buffett's newspaper company to buy Atlantic City paper — Warren Buffett's newspaper company said Thursday it plans to acquire the Press of Atlantic City, N.J., for an undisclosed price. The Press is owned by Abarta, a private holding company in Pittsburgh that is owned by the Bitzer and Taylor families.
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Poynter and JIMROMENESKO.COM
John Cook / Gawker:
Here's Where Your Crackstarter Money Is Going — As you may recall, roughly six weeks ago we succeeded in raising $200,000 from readers in an effort to purchase and publish a video of Toronto mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine. I'm disappointed to announce definitively that the money …
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Guardian
Rebecca Grant / VentureBeat:
Swell raises $5.4M to ‘reinvent news radio’ around your preferences — Swell wants to expand your mind. — Today the startup “reinventing news radio” closed a $5.4 million round of funding, led by elite firm Draper Fisher Jurveston. Swell provides a Pandora-like service for listening to podcasts.
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TechCrunch, Venture Capital Dispatch, AllThingsD and GigaOM
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
Aereo's Kanojia: On Track for 22 Markets by Fall — In C-SPAN interview, calls service criticism ‘irrational saber rattling from people not interested in innovation’ — Fresh off its latest court victory, which its founder says validates the service, Aereo is on track to be in 22 markets by fall.
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Variety
Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
CBS and Time Warner Cable take distribution feud public — A CBS ad warns some Time Warner Cable subscribers that they may lose access to the network. (CBS) — CBS and Time Warner Cable are taking their business battle public, with each launching ad campaigns critical of the other.
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New York Times and Reuters
LaGrange News:
Civitas Media to Close Suburban Newspapers in Ohio and North Carolina — DAVIDSON, N.C. - July 17 -, 2013 - Civitas Media, parent company to the LaGrange Daily News, a multi-platform information provider to local communities, announced today that it is closing eight suburban weekly newspapers in the Dayton, Ohio and Raleigh, NC areas.
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bizjournals, CaryCitizen and Dayton, Ohio …