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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Rebekah Brooks: NI's ‘rogue reporter’ defence shaky after 2009 revelations — Former News International chief tells phone-hacking trial that company's corporate line came from NoW editor Colin Myler — Rebekah Brooks knew that News International's position in 2009 that phone hacking …
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Guardian:
NI paid phone hacker's legal fees to stop him ‘naming names’, court hears — Rebekah Brooks says News International believed Glenn Mulcaire ‘could say anyone or anything’ in Max Clifford civil case — News International agreed to pay phone hacker Glenn Mulcaire's legal fees to stop …
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@lisaocarroll
Ben Cardew / Guardian:
The Intercept's early traffic has been in the hundreds of thousands, says Greenwald — Can Greenwald's digital magazine Intercept help to reinvent journalism? — Founder plans non-hierarchical newsroom and wants to build First Look Media on collaboration
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Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
On the meaning of journalistic independence
On the meaning of journalistic independence
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Liz Shannon Miller / Gigaom:
DVD screener leaks decline as distributors crack down on leakers, test digital options — Looking for Oscars torrents? This is why you may end up empty-handed — If Ellen DeGeneres mentions the film The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty on Sunday night, it might be with a wince …
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Latest News & Headlines, Forbes, Softpedia News, Variety, Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone and mUmBRELLA
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Guardian corrects: Bradley Manning didn't take Ellen's Oscar selfie — Ellen DeGeneres' “Oscar selfie” is now the most retweeted photo ever. But that bit of history wasn't apparently enough for The Guardian, which appended this somewhat amazing correction: to some of its Academy Awards coverage:
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Piers Morgan Plans to Remain at CNN for ‘Big Name’ Interviews — Showbiz 411′s Roger Friedman reported Sunday that Piers Morgan plans to stick around CNN doing high-level interviews. — “I'll make a deal to do twenty or twenty-five shows a year, all interviews with big names,” Morgan said.
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Showbiz411, The Inquisitr News and Forbes
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Washington Post opens tech outpost in New York — The Washington Post is expanding its New York footprint with the creation of a Manhattan-based design and development office. — The new satellite hub, called WPNYC, will result in more than a dozen new hires including designers, strategists and information architects.
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@jamesrbuk, @lheron, @jenny8lee, @zseward, @abeaujon and @raju
Todd Spangler / Variety:
ABC's Live Oscar Internet Stream Suffers Nationwide Outage — Unexpected demand for ABC's live stream of the Oscars telecast over the Internet resulted in the video going down for users across the U.S., the network said Sunday. — The live video, available only to certain pay-TV customers through …
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Quartz, @xpangler, @brianstelter, CNET and Business Insider
David Carr / New York Times:
Foreign Buyers Eyeing Forbes Magazine, a Chronicler of the World's Wealthiest — Growing up in the Midwest, my idea of rich was my dentist, who lived a few blocks away and had a split-level that was bigger than the rest of ours and a Cadillac in the driveway.
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Mashable Raises More Money, This Time from Tribune — Earlier this year Mashable, the tech news Web site with plans to become much bigger than a tech news Web site, announced it had taken on outside investment money for the first time. Now it has taken on some more.
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TechCrunch
Latin American Herald Tribune:
Kidnapped Spanish Journalist Released in Syria — BARCELONA - Spanish journalist Marc Marginedas, who was kidnapped in Syria on Sept. 4, has been released and is in good health in Turkey, from where on Sunday he spoke by telephone with his family and with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.
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Guardian
Los Angeles Times:
TV news employee rescued after being trapped in waist-deep mud — A TV news employee trying to report from the scene of an unstable Azusa hillside Friday got stuck in waist-high mud and had to be rescued. The man was reporting in the hillside above the home of Dennis Sanderson on Ridge View Drive when he got stuck in the mud.
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