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Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Armstrong Confirms “Hundreds” Of Layoffs At Patch, 400 Sites Shuttered Or Partnered Off, And A New CEO — We reported yesterday that AOL's hyper-local news service would lose hundreds of employees today, and now we have confirmation from a well-placed Patcher privy to the call …
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
No layoffs at Patch today — AOL CEO Tim Armstrong told Patch editors Friday there would be no “impacts,” or layoffs announced today. The “impacts” will arrive on a rolling basis over the next week, he said. — Armstrong said in an earnings call earlier this week that AOL would sell …
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AdAge, Pressfolios Blog, Newsday and @loislane79
Sam Biddle / Valleywag:
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Fires Employee for Taking His Picture
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JIMROMENESKO.COM, Betabeat and Mashable
Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
AOL Won't Deny The Rumor That Patch's CEO Is Out After Just Two Months On The Job
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Forbes, The Wrap, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, The New York Observer, JIMROMENESKO.COM and FishbowlNY
Reuters:
Murdoch Shakes Up News Corp.'s Australian Operation — CANBERRA — Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. appointed a new chief executive for its Australian operation Friday, a move that Prime Minister Kevin Rudd linked to mounting attacks on his government by Mr. Murdoch's local newspapers during a divisive election campaign.
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Kim Stephens / Brisbane Times:
Brisbane cafe bans Murdoch press
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ninemsn, @funwithstuff and @vermeera
Neil Chenoweth / Australian Financial Review:
Murdoch's News Corp empire turns on itself
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Guardian, The Conversation and Guardian
Margaret Simons / Guardian:
Kim Williams departure a victory for Murdoch's Australian editors
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Guardian
Brian Beutler / Salon:
Glenn Greenwald offered Brazilian protection from U.S. — Greenwald tells Salon he intends to visit the U.S. soon — but says the risk of prosecution against him is real — A Brazilian official has taken the unusual step of publicly announcing that the Brazilian government …
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The Huffington Post:
Edward Snowden Gets Results — President Obama's press conference on Friday was full of headline-making news about new proposals to reform the American surveillance system. But another headline could also be appropriate: “Journalism gets results.” — Or, as the Guardian's Spencer Ackerman put it:
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Associated Press:
Tumblr Founder to Get $81M to Remain at Yahoo — Yahoo's recently completed acquisition of Internet blogging service Tumblr includes an $81 million payment to Tumblr founder David Karp as long as he remains on the job for the next four years. — The retention payment disclosed …
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Mashable and Softpedia News
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Tumblr Had $16.6 Million Left When Yahoo Bought It
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Quartz, Betabeat, Business Insider, Valleywag, Forbes, Sky News, Softpedia News, Reuters, Digits, The Next Web and GigaOM
The New Republic:
Newspapers Should Be More Like Amazon — By Julius Genachowski and Steven Waldman What Jeff Bezos can teach The Washington Post What's intriguing about Jeff Bezos, who purchased The Washington Post this week, is not that he's a digital guy or that he has a lot of money—though both certainly help …
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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Amid Criticism, Support for Media's ‘Watchdog’ Role Stands Out — Overview — Public evaluations of news organizations' performance on key measures such as accuracy, fairness and independence remain mired near all-time lows. But there is a bright spot among these otherwise gloomy ratings …
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USA Today, Poynter, Big News Network.com, Adweek, TVSpy, Mediaite and The Huffington Post
Greg Sandoval / The Verge:
Consumer watchdog says Apple did ‘considerable harm’ with ebook pricing, supports DOJ ruling — Eddy Cue, the Apple exec accused of orchestrating the price fixing (right), leaves court. — The Consumer Federation of America (CFA) said in papers filed in federal court that Apple caused considerable …
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Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:
In ebook case, Apple wants a stay, and DOJ argues publishers are conspiring again
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AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Electronista, MacRumors, iClarified, Hillicon Valley and ZDNet
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BBC calls in auditors to widen search for improper executive payoffs — BBC director general Tony Hall appoints KPMG to investigate potentially improper payoffs to senior BBC executives — Tony Hall, the BBC director general, has called in external auditors KPMG to widen the search …
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Telegraph
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Christopher Hope / Telegraph:
Met Police's fraud squad investigating BBC pay-offs scandal
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presstv.ir, BBC, Guardian, The Independent, @rajunarisetti and @vikramdodd
Christy Choi / South China Morning Post:
Wikimedians should fix ‘broken journalism’, Jimmy Wales tells Hong Kong conference — Journalism is broken and Wikimedians should think about how to fix it, said Jimmy Wales at the opening of the 9th annual Wikimania conference in Hong Kong on Friday. — Harnessing the power of public discussion …
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Digits, Digits, @kirstystyles1, @jchristychoi and @fabriceflorin
Mike Reynolds / Multichannel:
TWC Customers File Lawsuit over Retrans Disconnect with Milwaukee Station — Plaintiffs Seek Class-Action Status over Disconnect with Journal Broadcast's WTMJ — A trio of Time Warner Cable customers has filed a lawsuit against the cable operator over its retransmission-consent dispute with WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee.
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JSOnline, Inside TV, TMJ4, Radio & Television … and FierceCable
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Rupert Murdoch keeps succession plan a secret — At the end of an investor conference designed to shed light on the financial future of Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox, the 82-year-old media baron was asked how long he planned to stick around as chief executive officer.
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Variety
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
More than half of Britons access news online — Figures show 55% of adults use internet to read or download content from papers, broadcasters and online-only websites — Read the full ONS report — More than half of UK adults are accessing news content online, another milestone …
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ons.gov.uk and The Next Web
Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:
Google rolls out digital textbooks, to buy and rent — but students should shop around — Google has launched a digital textbooks section of Books on Google Play in the U.S., as promised. The textbooks are available through the Play website, Android and iOS apps.
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TechCrunch, Softpedia News and Android Police
Timothy B. Lee / The Switch:
Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won't be another Hacker News — When I was a computer science student in college, everyone I knew read Slashdot. Founded in 1997, the site was dedicated to “News for nerds. Stuff that matters.” It featured about a dozen short, user-submitted stories about the technology news of the day.
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