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Herald Scotland:
Rebekah Brooks acquitted of one charge of misconduct in phone hacking trial — Former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks has been formally found not guilty of one charge of misconduct in a public office but she remains on trial for four further counts.
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Rebekah Brooks not on trial for having worked for Rupert Murdoch, court told — Ex-News International chief's lawyer opens defence at phone-hacking trial, telling jury not to judge her for her career or views — Rebekah Brooks is not on trial because she was a tabloid editor or worked for Rupert Murdoch …
John Rentoul / The Independent:
Blair responds to Brooks email
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Guardian, Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, @johnrentoul and @dangillmor
Ted Johnson / Variety:
Utah Federal Judge Halts Aereo in Salt Lake City and Denver — A federal judge in Utah has imposed a preliminary injunction on Aereo's operations, a win for broadcasters as they seek to halt the startup streaming service in Salt Lake City and Denver. — “Based on the plain language …
Agence France Presse:
Egypt to put Jazeera journalists on trial — Cairo (AFP) - Al-Jazeera journalists, including four foreigners, go on trial in Cairo Thursday for allegedly supporting the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood in a case that has sparked accusations Egypt is muzzling the media.
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allAfrica.com, Al Jazeera English, BBC and Guardian
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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi joins Omidyar's First Look Media to cover financial and political corruption — Start-Up Site Hires Critic of Wall St. — Matt Taibbi, who made a name as a fierce critic of Wall Street at Rolling Stone magazine, has joined First Look Media …
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Andrew Lapin / Current.org:
ProPublica receives $1M grant from MacArthur Foundation — ProPublica will receive a $1 million Award for Creative and Effective Institutions from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the funder announced Thursday. The nonprofit is the only news organization among the seven recipients selected.
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Politico, Minneapolis Star Tribune and ProPublica
Michelle Arrouas / TIME:
Veteran Canadian Journalist Missing In Cambodia — Dave Walker was working on a film about Khmer Rouge war criminals at the time — Cambodian police are searching for a veteran Canadian journalist who has been missing since late last week, Canadian officials say.
Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
China's Tencent signs deal for access to exclusive Business Insider content — Business Insider Just Launched An Awesome New China Partnership With Tencent — Here's The Google-Translate Version — Business Insider just launched a cool new content partnership with China Internet behemoth Tencent.
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@hblodget and Tech in Asia
Dylan Byers / Politico:
POLITICO taps Hotline EIC for Campaign Pro — POLITICO has hired National Journal Hotline editor-in-chief Steve Shepard to help launch the latest venture in its growing subscription-service empire: Campaign Pro, “a vertical aimed at political, PAC and campaign professionals.”
Nic Christensen / mUmBRELLA:
The Guardian to launch Melbourne office and ramp up staff to more than 50 — The Guardian is to open a Melbourne office and launch a new hiring spree, with its overall Australian staff to grow to more than 50 in the coming weeks, Mumbrella can reveal. — The opening of the Melbourne office …
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Gautham Nagesh / Wall Street Journal:
FCC plans to issue new net neutrality rules. — The Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday that it will craft new rules to prevent Internet service providers from charging companies like Netflix or Google a toll to reach consumers at the highest speeds.
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FCC.gov, Variety, Home Media Magazine, New York Times, The Week, Ars Technica, @reedfrich, @theharryshearer, @pkafka, The Switch, The Breakdown, PandoDaily, Free Press Blog, BGR, TIME, Mother Jones, @digitalsista and AllAccess.com
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Amy Schatz / Re/code:
Net Neutrality Rules Are Out: New Twist on Old Proposal
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The Verge, @karaswisher, @mikeisaac, Techdirt, Electronista, GeekWire, TechCrunch and @amy_schatz
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
LinkedIn's competitive advantage over other publishers: $1.5B in annual revenues — LinkedIn has the one thing other publishing platforms would kill for — We've been writing a lot lately about the increasingly blurry lines between platform and publisher, a world in which new-media entities …
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Nieman Journalism Lab, Re/code, blog.linkedin.com, @emilybell, Real Lawyers Have Blogs and Engadget
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Author James Patterson sets up $1M fund to help independent bookstores innovate — James Patterson Giving Cash to Bookstores — Independent bookstores, with their paper-thin profit margins and competition from Amazon, have found themselves a Daddy Warbucks.
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Bookmarks, Associated Press, bookforum.com and Publishers Weekly
Jake Mitchell / Sydney Morning Herald:
Fairfax posts jump in profit — Fairfax Media has reported 48.5 per cent growth in underlying profit to $86.4 million for the half year ended December 31, with the print, digital and radio businesses focusing on cutting costs and targeting new revenue streams.
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Stuff.co.nz, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, mUmBRELLA, AdNews, B&T, HeraldSun, TheAustralian, Business Insider and Crikey
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
CNN Reporter: Venezuelan Cops Confiscated Our Equipment at Gunpoint — Kiev isn't the only part of the world protesting this week, protestors in Venezuela have been standing up against the government of President Nicolas Maduro. Since protests began in Venezuela, there have been five fatalities …
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TVNewser, CNN, The Huffington Post and Hot Air
Jonathan Marino / The Deal Pipeline:
Fosun closes in on deal for Forbes; price short of $250M — When money management magazine and website Forbes Media LLC is sold, likely to Fosun International Ltd., the Chinese conglomerate that has taken the front-runner position in the company's auction, sources said …
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@joshsternberg, @hofrench and @jackshafer, Thanks:@jonmarino
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Are quizzes the new lists? What BuzzFeed's latest viral success means for publishing — Lately, it seems like the hardest content format to avoid on the social web is the BuzzFeed quiz. — What city should I actually live in? Paris. How will I die? Eaten by piranhas. Should I learn to code?
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@heiditworek and @sebchan
Kathleen Bartzen Culver / Mediashift:
Taking Action: EdShift Launches to Move Journalism Education Forward — When I do multimedia trainings for college educators with Al Tompkins of the Poynter Institute, we get to a particular point in the arc of the sessions and see a specific response. We stand before these teachers …
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Poynter and @knightfdn
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
Murdoch's hard-paywall success — I've criticized Rupert Murdoch for his hard-paywall strategy at The Times of London, arguing that a metered model a la the Financial Times or New York Times would be the much better option. — I still think The Times should move to a meter …
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
1 journalist dead, many injured in Ukraine violence — Vyacheslav Veremyi was “dragged out of his taxi by unknown assailants” in Kiev early Wednesday morning, Reporters Without Borders reports. The reporter for Ukrainian newspaper Vesti “was violently beaten up, and according to witness accounts …
Fred Vultee / ACES:
Vice should hire a copy editor and A/B test the value of copy editing for readers — More advice for Vice: Why hiring copy editors is a really good idea — Everybody has some advice for Vice Media in its quest to hire a freelance copy editor, from the folks at Gawker who noticed …
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@abrahamhyatt, @ebrenner, @andybechtel, @lauren_kelley, @kellyhagen, @jbenton, Poynter and AdAge
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