Mediagazer: ITV News head of production Cristina Nicolotti Squires named editor of 5 News (Press Gazette)

7:25 AM ET, October 18, 2013

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Josh Sternberg / Digiday:

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Press Gazette:

ITV News head of production Cristina Nicolotti Squires named editor of 5 News — ITV news head of output Cristina Nicolotti Squires has been named by ITN as the new editor of Channel 5 News. — She replaces Geoff Hill, who is leaving to join ITV News and has been editor of Channel 5 News since 2011 …

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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:

It's Official: Mike Hopkins Named CEO of Hulu — Interim CEO Andy Forssell exits — Hulu has announced Fox Networks distribution chief as CEO of Hulu. — Interim CEO Andy Forssell will be leaving the company. — “After an extensive search, Mike was simply the best candidate for the job.

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Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Former BBC boss Mark Thompson to face MPs over £100m DMI fiasco — Current New York Times chief executive to be asked if he misled parliamentary committee about Digital Media Initiative in 2011 — Former BBC director general Mark Thompson has been recalled to parliament …

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Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:

Cinedigm Pays $51.5M for Home Entertainment Player GVE — Cinedigm has acquired home entertainment company Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment (GVE) for $51.5 million, the company announced Thursday. GVE was a division of Gaiam, a health and wellness company, that became a player in the home entertainment space …

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Stuart Dredge / Guardian:

Kim Dotcom's Mega ‘not being used for wide-scale copyright infringement’ — CEO Vikram Kumar claims cloud storage service is appealing less to pirates and more to ‘accountants, lawyers, financial advisers, architects...’ — Kim Dotcom may be seen as a villainous pirate-king by the creative industries …

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Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:

How entrepreneurial journalism is building a local voice in Egypt — Mandara Online, an Egyptian NGO, acts as a portal for news and content from across rural and disconnected Upper Egypt — Read more — Other top stories — Also on Journalism.co.uk...

Adam Bernstein / Washington Post:

Journalist Sara Fritz dies at 68 — Sara Fritz, a Washington-based journalist who worked on early computer-assisted investigations, won awards for her coverage of the White House and Congress, and wrote searchingly about the suicide of her 12-year-old son, died Oct. 16 at George Washington University Hospital.

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

Breitbart News shakes up masthead — Breitbart News, the combative right-wing news and opinion network, will today announce “a fundamental restructuring” of its masthead that will leave the 27-year-old Alexander Marlow in charge of editorial operations, POLITICO has learned.

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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

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Cassell Bryan-Low / Wall Street Journal:

British judge forbids WSJ from publishing names in Libor fraud probe — U.K. Prosecutors Win Injunction Amid Investigation — Cassell Bryan-Low … LONDON—British prosecutors on Thursday obtained a court order prohibiting The Wall Street Journal from publishing names of individuals …

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Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

Behind the Scenes on Changes to a Story on Pope Francis — Laurie Goodstein covers one of the most scrutinized beats at The Times. As national religion correspondent, her recent articles on Pope Francis have been the topic of plenty of conversation and discussion - and have had very heavy readership.

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Failure of Verizon's cable partnership kills secretive Nuon content-sharing project — Verizon's announcement Thursday that it has terminated an R&D partnership with cable companies announced earlier this summer puts an end to a top-secret project that would have competed with over-the-top services …

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