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JP Mangalindan / Fortune:
CNN sells Zite to Flipboard in all-stock transaction worth more than the $20M CNN paid in 2011 — Flipboard buys Zite news app from CNN — The standalone iPad news app will eventually be shut down and integrated into Flipboard. Also: Zite's CEO tells Fortune why he left.
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Laurie Segall / CNNMoney:
CNN sells Zite to Flipboard, teams up to launch custom magazines for CNN shows — CNN sells Zite to Flipboard — CNN has sold its news reader app, Zite, to Flipboard, a social magazine application. As part of the deal, Flipboard has also teamed up with CNN to launch custom magazines …
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Patrick Kingsley / Guardian:
Al-Jazeera trial: prosecution presents contents of journalists' hotel rooms — Trial in Egypt descends into farce on day two as everything from journalists' hotel rooms is presented as evidence by prosecution — The second day of the trial of three al-Jazeera journalists in Egypt descended …
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Poynter, @jeromestarkey and The Newspaper Guild
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Patrick Kingsley / Guardian:
Peter Greste and other al-Jazeera journalists return to court in Egypt
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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Russia Today Anchor Resigns Live On Air — WASHINTON — Russia Today America anchor Liz Wahl resigned live on air on Wednesday, saying that she could no longer work at the Kremlin-funded network after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Wahl said that she feels “many ethical and moral challenges” …
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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
The Guardian's digital boom — Revenue rises sharply online for a second-straight year — The Guardian had another big year of digital business last year, further brightening the paper's long-term outlook. — The paper says its digital revenue will hit $117 million in its current fiscal year, which ends on March 31.
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Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:
Guardian CEO: The paywall ‘horse has bolted’ for us — Andrew Miller, chief executive of Guardian Media Group tells Digital Media Strategies the time has passed for the news outlet to launch a paywall, but indicated that ‘membership’ could be a way of ‘adding value’ — Credit: Image by michael clarke stuff on Flickr.
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Paul McNally / Press Gazette:
News UK chief Mike Darcey says Guardian ‘very brave’ to ‘bet’ the business on a free website
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Jeanine Poggi / AdAge:
Al Jazeera America at Six Months: Some New Advertisers, Few Viewers — Serious Cable News Network Is on the Right Path, Buyers Say — Al Jazeera America is averaging less than half its predecessor's audience — Krux — Al Jazeera America is starting to earn the trust of some advertisers …
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New York Magazine, Politico, Los Angeles Times, @brianstelter, @tomgara, @jayrosen_nyu and FTVLive
Reuters:
Exclusive: DirecTV in talks with Disney on deal for Internet rights — (Reuters) - DirecTV is in talks with Walt Disney Co to license the rights to offer Disney's broadcast and cable channels as part of an Internet-based product, DirecTV said on Wednesday. — The deal would mirror …
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Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Government backs off case against journalist who faced decades in prison for posting hyperlink — The US government has filed a motion to dismiss several charges against journalist Barrett Brown, who was indicted in 2012 for posting a link to leaked documents among other alleged offenses.
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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Embrace the unbundling: The Boston Globe is betting it'll be stronger split up than unified — The model for the 20th-century American newspaper was to be all things to all people, in one amalgamated package. One daily bundle of newsprint could give you baseball box scores …
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JIMROMENESKO.COM, Guardian, @justinnxt, bizjournals and Media Nation
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Time.com Gets A Big Redesign, Along With New Ad Units — The new Time.com is here. — Well, it should be here for some of you, anyway. A spokesperson said that the first few users should see the new layout now, and it will continue rolling out tonight and tomorrow.
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Poynter, Capital New York, Re/code, AdAge and @racheltipograph
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
Marc Andreessen's news-business fairy tale — The news industry is not in for exponential growth — Marc Andreessen has some outlandish predictions about the future of the journalism business: … Sorry, but those numbers are crazy town, as Poynter's Rick Edmonds notes.
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@pmarca, @jayrosen_nyu, @mathewi, @pmarca and ZDNet
Lexy Savvides / CNET:
Getty making select photos free to embed for non-commercial use, removes watermarks — Getty makes 35 million images free for sharing — Have you ever wanted to share a newsworthy image on a blog or on Facebook, but are not sure how to credit it? — Licensing issues might not be at the front …
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Nieman Journalism Lab, bjp-online.com, The Verge, TechCrunch, Fast Company, Techdirt, Gizmodo, @maungle, @mathewi, PandoDaily, @pkafka, @jbenton and Engadget
Alison Flood / Guardian:
Anne Rice signs petition to protest bullying of authors on Amazon — Almost 1,000 signatories - to include Rice and a number of other authors - are taking a stand against comments that are ‘gratuitously destructive towards the creative community’ — Anne Rice has tackled vampires …
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GalleyCat, goodereader.com, Betabeat, filmindustrynetwork.biz, Toronto Sun and EW.com
Reuters:
Brooks accused of knowing about UK phone-hacking cover-up — (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's former British newspaper boss Rebekah was accused by prosecutors on Wednesday of knowing for years that phone-hacking was far wider than her company had acknowledged and had engaged in a cover-up.
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Guardian, Press Gazette, BreakingNews.ie, BBC and Kirk LaPointe's …
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch ‘asked Rebekah Brooks not to resign’ the day NoW shut
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Hollywood Reporter, Guardian and @lisaocarroll
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