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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Battle between New York attorney general and Trump casts shadow over The New York Observer — A New York Observer Article Brings a Spat in Trump's Orbit — Bill Gifford was managing an ice cream shop in Maplewood, N.J., last summer when a customer, Ken Kurson, the editor of The New York Observer, came in with an unorthodox request.
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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
Emails Show How Donald Trump's Enemy Became the Observer's Enemy
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@ggreeneva, @jimmyvielkind, @jbenton, @lhfang, @nickconfessore, @hunterw, @jaredbkeller, Capital New York and The New York Observer
Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch told Rebekah Brooks to make Sun more ‘fun’, court hears — Former editor tells phone-hacking trial that News Corp chief believed paper had become too bogged down in ‘pure politics’ — Rupert Murdoch made Rebekah Brooks editor of the Sun because he wanted her to make it more …
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Katrin Bennhold / New York Times:
Tears and Tissues as Editor Testifies in Phone Hacking Case
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Fernando Alfonso III / Daily Dot:
Why Reddit mods are censoring Greenwald's latest bombshell — It's been called “Censorship Fiasco 2: Electric Boogaloo.” — News over the past 72 hours has been dominated by the implosion of Mt. Gox, once the world's largest Bitcoin exchange, and a report from Glenn Greenwald …
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@mathewi, @mattzeitlin, @intercept_this, Techdirt and Washington's Blog
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Secret ‘Innocence of Muslims’ Order Caused Google to Go Ballistic — The search giant had advance warning of what was coming and made an emergency motion slamming an appeals court for doing something it says was “stunning.” — A still from “The Innocence of Muslims”
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Jessica Davies / The Drum:
‘Mobile-first’ has become a meaningless term, says FT's CTO John O'Donovan while unveiling ‘universal publishing’ strategy — The term mobile-first has become “meaningless” in this multiplatform landscape where it has become crucial not to “obsess” over specific platforms but focus on the wider picture …
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Tumblr Courts Hollywood With First Director of Media (Exclusive) — The Yahoo-owned blogging platform follows Twitter and Facebook in its effort to forge deeper ties with the entertainment industry. — Tumblr is making a big push in Hollywood. — The Yahoo-owned blogging platform …
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The Wrap, Tubefilter, Variety and MediaPost
Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:
ProPublica opens Data Store with free and ‘premium’ data — ProPublica is looking to data as a possible revenue stream as it launches an online Data Store as ‘a bit of an experiment’ to test demand — Credit: By gruenenrw on Flickr. Some rights reserved.
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ProPublica and Gigaom
Agence France-Presse:
Al-Jazeera stages solidarity day with Egypt-held staff — Doha — Al-Jazeera television on Thursday organised a “global day of action” in solidarity with its four journalists detained in Egypt over accusations of supporting the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood.
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Poynter, Guardian, The Huffington Post, GlobalPost, Al Jazeera English, Index on Censorship and Al Jazeera America
Bill Carter / New York Times:
‘Tonight’ Starts Well, on YouTube and on TV — The traditional television ratings have been impressive for the first week-plus of the new “Tonight” show hosted by Jimmy Fallon, but they do not include what amounts to a giant secondary audience that has gathered online to watch carefully crafted …
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
America's copyright threat letters turn one year old, but no one will say how they're doing — The Copyright Alert System — a “voluntary” system of disconnection threats sent to alleged file-sharers, created by entertainment companies and the large US ISPs — has just celebrated its first birthday …
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RT, Advanced Television, BGR and TorrentFreak
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Inkshares wants to create a hybrid of traditional book publisher and crowdfunded digital platform — As with so many other media and publishing-related businesses, the book industry has been massively disrupted by the internet, to the point where an increasing number of authors have found success …
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Apple urges U.S. appeals court to void ‘radical’ e-books ruling — (Reuters) - Apple Inc urged a U.S. appeals court to throw out a judge's “radical” finding that it violated antitrust law by manipulating electronic book prices, and blamed publishers for running a conspiracy it claimed to know nothing about.
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MediaPost, PC World, PC Magazine, AppleInsider, MyNorthwest.com and Fortune
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
Niche networks get a shot, thanks to Comcast deal — El Rey Network, which launched quietly in December, wouldn't exist if Comcast hadn't acquired NBCUniversal. — Case in point: How John Fogelman, a former William Morris Endeavor agent who became C.E.O. of Hollywood media incubator FactoryMade Ventures …
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
Clyburn Defends FCC's Critical Needs Study — Calls it effort to better understand industries and environments; says she would never chill speech — FCC commissioner and former acting chairwoman Mignon Clyburn defended the FCC's Critical Information Needs study Feb. 26 in a speech …
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@eggerton, @eggerton, @jbflint, Los Angeles Times, Watchdog.org and TheHill
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Corey Hutchins / Columbia Journalism Review:
Why did the FCC want to interview journalists in the first place?
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@coreyhutchins
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Warner Bros. Considers Investment in Machinima — Warner Bros. is mulling an investment in Web video network Machinima. — The film studio is said to be considering putting $10 million to $15 million into Machinima, a gaming-centric company that has built a big following on YouTube, according to people familiar with the situation.
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Tubefilter, @benfritz, Music Ally, VentureBeat and @pkafka
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google Becomes A “Second Screen,” Teams Up With FOX To Offer Online Voting Tools For “American Idol” — Blippar Introduces Image Recognition And AR Advertising On Google Glass — So much for Twitter as the “second screen” and all its TV partnerships - Google announced this morning …
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Inside Search, Wall Street Journal, Variety, BetaNews, Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Times, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Search Engine Land, The Next Web and The Wrap
Costas Pitas / Reuters:
ITV says open to acquisitions after earnings rise — (Reuters) - ITV, Britain's largest free-to-air broadcaster, said on Wednesday it was on the hunt for acquisitions as it posted an increase in revenue that will help fund another special dividend for shareholders.
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Wall Street Journal, Guardian and Guardian
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Micro sports news site Rookie uses quotes as atomic units in human curated news stories — Can the quote be a new atomic unit of news? Rookie (no, not that one) tries a new twist on sports — L.C. Angell says he builds websites with himself as the target reader.
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@eyeseast and @niemanlab
Merrill Knox / TVNewser:
Bloomberg, El Financiero Launch Business Channel in Mexico, Central America — Bloomberg and Mexican newspaper El Financiero are teaming up to launch a multiplatform Spanish-language business news service, including a television network that will serve as Mexico and Central America's only Spanish-language business news channel.
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