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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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ReadWrite, TIME, Tech Deals, ReadWrite, ZDNet, @edmundlee, @felixsalmon and @megan
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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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Zite's blog, LinkedIn Pulse, Inside Flipboard, Gigaom, Adweek, TVNewser, Folio, Inside Flipboard, Forbes, CNET, Business Insider, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Lost Remote, The Verge, Re/code, The Wrap, Poynter, @peacockc, PandoDaily, Variety, Reuters, TechCrunch, MacStories, Electronista, @mlcalderone, Fast Company, @learmonth, @brianstelter, @om, @antderosa, Mashable, The Next Web, @pkafka, Marketing Land, AdAge, App Advice, Engadget and @davidbauer
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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@mattmcalister and Guardian
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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.
Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:
NYT plans lower pricing to reach non-subscribers and premium products for devoted readers
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Telegraph, @matthewkeyslive, mUmBRELLA and FishbowlNY
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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Guardian
Haitham Tabei / Agence France-Presse:
Torture claim in Egypt trial of Jazeera journalists — Cairo (AFP) - The trial of Al-Jazeera journalists accused of supporting deposed president Mohamed Morsi's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood resumed Wednesday, with defendants claiming torture and denial of medical treatment.
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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
Patrick Kingsley / Guardian:
Peter Greste and other al-Jazeera journalists return to court in Egypt
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Al Jazeera English, @ajamphoto, Sky News Australia, @jessiehatcher, Voice of America, @kenroth, @bbcos, @bbcandrewh and Committee to Protect …
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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Politico, New York Magazine, @tomgara, @jayrosen_nyu, Los Angeles Times, @brianstelter and FTVLive
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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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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ZDNet and @jayrosen_nyu
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, Media Nation and @globemoskowitz
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Dish's deal with Disney may bring TV over the Web, but don't expect major changes to bundling — Disney Opens the Door for Web TV — As Long as It Looks Like Cable TV — Lots of people are quietly excited about the Web TV pact Disney and Dish announced yesterday — the one that gives Dish …
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Wall Street Journal
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Craig Silverman / Poynter:
Slate appends corrections to errors on social media using replies, ensuring visiblity in stream — Slate's good strategy for correcting errors on Twitter, elsewhere — On Saturday night, Slate made a very funny, embarrassing error on Twitter: … Javier Bardem and Vladimir Putin aren't exactly lookalikes.
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@niemanlab, @elanazak, @bydanielvictor, @poynter, @vivian and @antderosa
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 and BBC
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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, @lisaocarroll and Reuters
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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@rosiegray, @mckaycoppins, @gawker, @poniewozik, @tobyharnden and @rosiegray
John Plunkett / Guardian:
BBC3 to be axed under director general's plans — Tony Hall expected to announce he will save BBC4 and make channel that first aired Gavin and Stacey online only — Poll: Has the BBC made the right decision to axe BBC3? — The closure of BBC3 is to be proposed by the BBC director general …
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Gigaom, Metro.co.uk, @susancalman, @mr_dave_haslam, The Next Web, @claire_phipps, Pocket-lint, thedrum.com and broadcastnow.co.uk
William Launder / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos puts more money into Business Insider — Business Insider raised an additional $12 million in funding from investors including Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, the online news site said.
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Business Insider, GeekWire, @ajs, @jillianiles, Re/code, Talking Biz News and cnbc.com
Jack Marshall / Digiday:
How Digiday's experiment in buying fraudulent traffic returned a 30% profit in 10 days — Fraudulent traffic: adventures in ad farming — Web advertising has a serious fraud problem, largely because it's easy for publishers to purchase suspicious traffic and to sell it to advertisers through networks and exchanges.
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@bmorrissey, @digitalshields, @digiday, @tomgara, @sleepwhendead, @dkberman, @niemanlab and Business Insider
Molly McHugh / Daily Dot:
Introducing the Daily Dot's Tech section — The last thing the Internet needs is another tech blog. — We don't need another site for software recommendations or new product-spec breakdowns. We certainly can't stomach another news source that functions as a mouthpiece for startups' PR …
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PR Newswire
Erik Wemple:
AP removes misleading Trail Life USA photo from its archives — John Stemberger is chairman of the board of Trail Life USA, a scouting organization that doesn't allow participation from openly gay boys. The Associated Press's (AP) Nomaan Merchant recently completed an in-depth story …
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FishbowlNY and @poynter
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