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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, TechCrunch, ReadWrite, ZDNet, @megan, @edmundlee and @felixsalmon
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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, Gigaom, Inside Flipboard, Adweek, TVNewser, Inside Flipboard, Folio, Forbes, CNET, Business Insider, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Verge, Re/code, Reuters, Lost Remote, The Wrap, Poynter, PandoDaily, Variety, TechCrunch, MacStories, Electronista, Fast Company, @learmonth, @antderosa, Mashable, The Next Web, @pkafka, Marketing Land, AdAge, App Advice, Engadget, @om, @davidbauer, @mlcalderone, @peacockc and @brianstelter
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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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.
Patrick Kingsley / Guardian:
Peter Greste and other al-Jazeera journalists return to court in Egypt
Peter Greste and other al-Jazeera journalists return to court in Egypt
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Al Jazeera English, @ajamphoto, @jessiehatcher, Voice of America, Sky News Australia, @kenroth, @bbcos, @bbcandrewh and Committee to Protect …
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.
Paul McNally / Press Gazette:
News UK chief Mike Darcey says Guardian ‘very brave’ to ‘bet’ the business on a free website
News UK chief Mike Darcey says Guardian ‘very brave’ to ‘bet’ the business on a free website
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Guardian
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, @tomgara, @jayrosen_nyu, Politico, Los Angeles Times, @brianstelter and FTVLive
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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The Daily Beast, Gawker, TVNewser, Mediaite, Mediaite, Politico, Business Insider, @ravisomaiya, @rosiegray, @jkirchick, Business Insider, @colmorrisdavis, @jbarro, @nycsouthpaw, Mashable, @jasonabbruzzese, @dylanbyers, @dylanbyers, @stefanjbecket, @mckaycoppins, @gawker, @poniewozik, @tobyharnden and The Huffington Post
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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@pmarca, ZDNet, @jayrosen_nyu and @mathewi
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
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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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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Re/code, AdAge and Capital New York
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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The Verge, bjp-online.com, Fast Company, TechCrunch, @jbenton, PandoDaily, @maungle, @mathewi, @pkafka, Gizmodo and Engadget
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
Rupert Murdoch ‘asked Rebekah Brooks not to resign’ the day NoW shut
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Hollywood Reporter, Guardian, @lisaocarroll and Reuters
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