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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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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch ‘asked Rebekah Brooks not to resign’ the day NoW shut — Phone-hacking trial hears of News Corp mogul's intervention after it was revealed Milly Dowler's phone had been hacked — Rupert Murdoch asked Rebekah Brooks “not to resign” the day the News of the World closed, the phone-hacking trial has heard.
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Hollywood Reporter, Guardian, @lisaocarroll and Reuters
Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
CBS's Moonves says Dish's deal with Disney over the Hopper doesn't go far enough $CBS — Moonves Said Terms of Disney Deal Wouldn't Be Enough to Satisfy CBS — CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves said Tuesday the agreement Dish Network Corp. reached with Walt Disney Co. this week …
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Adweek, Hollywood Reporter, Hollywood Reporter, Bloomberg, CNET, Forbes, New York Times and CNNMoney.com
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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
Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:
NYT plans lower pricing to reach non-subscribers and premium products for devoted readers — New York Times to add ‘series of new products’ for digital subscribers — Research by the New York Times has identified opportunities to target both non-subscribers and 'devoted Times readers …
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@matthewkeyslive, mUmBRELLA, Telegraph and FishbowlNY
Todd Spangler / Variety:
HBO Go Launches on PlayStation 3 — HBO's Internet video service, HBO Go, is now available on Sony Computer Entertainment America's PlayStation 3 consoles — but it still isn't available for the newer PS4. — According to Sony, about 25 million PlayStation 3 consoles are in use in the U.S. Netflix …
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PlayStation.Blog, Electronista, Polygon and The Next Web
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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@poynter, @elanazak, @bydanielvictor, @vivian and @antderosa
Matt McGee / Marketing Land:
Twitter shares first “impressions” metrics for Oscars: 3.3B tweets viewed worldwide in 12 hours — Twitter Moves Beyond The Tweet, Shares First “Impressions” Metrics For Oscars — As the race for second screen dominance continues, Twitter is changing how it reports its own TV-related reach.
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The Twitter Blog, Forbes, Digital Trends, @kirstinestewart, Mediaite and Mashable
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 …
Patrick Kingsley / Guardian:
Peter Greste and other al-Jazeera journalists return to court in Egypt — Second day of trial gets under way as a senior Egyptian minister admits that jailing the group of reporters was a mistake — A group of mainly al-Jazeera journalists return to court in Egypt on Wednesday for the second …
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Voice of America, BBC, Al Jazeera English, NDTV News, Sky News Australia, Sydney Morning Herald and Committee to Protect …
Reuters:
Vietnam sentences dissident blogger Truong Duy Nhat to two years in prison — Vietnam jails ex-journalist over anti-government blog — (Reuters) - A court in Vietnam sentenced a former journalist to two years in prison on Tuesday for speaking out against the country's communist rulers …
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Voice of America, Associated Press, Voice of America and Committee to Protect …
Robert Feder:
Amid more layoffs, Sun-Times rehires four photographers — Four of the photographers who were fired when the Chicago Sun-Times eliminated its photography department last spring are rejoining the newspaper this week. — Rich Chapman, Brian Jackson, Al Podgorski and a fourth photographer whose name …
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Poynter, @donaldrwinslow, @georgemunro_cam, @dhinkel, @robertfeder, The Huffington Post and The Newspaper Guild
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Newsquest's ‘little house of subbing horrors’ prompts NUJ protest — The National Union of Journalists has renewed its call on Newsquest/Gannett to change its mind about the subbing hub it has created in south Wales. — It follows a damning indictment of the hub's output by the former regional editor, Steve Dyson.
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HoldTheFrontPage, HoldTheFrontPage and National Union of Journalists
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Boston Globe drops paywall, adds meter instead — A memo from Editor Brian McGrory lays out a number of big changes to the Globe's digital businesses. The catchiest: “We've replaced the paywall with a meter that allows readers ten free stories in a 30-day period.
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Media Nation, @mathewi, Politico, @globemoskowitz, @abeaujon and @dankennedy_nu
Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:
NSA chief criticises media and suggests UK was right to detain David Miranda — Keith Alexander says revelations have caused ‘grave damage’ and claims officials are making ‘headway’ on ‘media leaks’ — The outgoing director of the National Security Agency lashed out at media organizations reporting …
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New York Times, Firedoglake, @ggreenwald, @ioerror, bizjournals and @jayrosen_nyu
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Undaunted By DirecTV Fracas, Weather Channel To Launch More Primetime Originals — Sam Champion, digital video get emphasis in early presentation geared toward coming upfronts — The Weather Company said it would continue to invest in documentary series for primetime …
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Capital New York
Bloomberg:
How Turkey's Erdogan held on to a newspaper and TV station despite Murdoch and Time Warner interest — Erdogan's Media Grab Stymies Expansion by Murdoch, Time Warner — In March 2012, Rupert Murdoch flew to Ankara and spent an hour chatting with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan about investing in Turkey.
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@osmancoskunoglu
Niklas Wirminghaus / VentureVillage:
Q&A with Jonah Peretti on Buzzfeed: “Traffic has grown to 140m unique visitors” — LOL, WIN, OMG: founder Jonah Peretti about Buzzfeed's recipe for success — Is this what the future of journalism looks like? Cute animal pictures, funning listicles …
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WWD Media Headlines, Capital New York, Poynter, VentureBeat and @carr2n
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
BuzzFeed plans expansion to Mumbai, Berlin, Tokyo, Mexico City
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Medium, bizjournals, FishbowlNY and @poynter
Luke Hopewell / Gizmodo Australia:
The War For TV: Aussie Networks Plea For Government Help To Fight Netflix — The war for the future of television is on, and without knowing it, you have already chosen a side. Whether you prefer to stick to terrestrial broadcasts on free-to-air and Foxtel, or if you like to get your shows …
Deborah Amos / NPR:
My (Brief) Detention By Iran's Morality Police … On my third day in Tehran last week, I was detained by Iran's notorious “morals police.” This volunteer corps, with a presence in nearly every city and town, polices infractions against Islamic values. These guardians patrol parks …
Trevor Timm / Freedom of the Press Foundation:
Suspicionless Searches at the US Border: A Growing Problem for Press Freedom — On The Media dedicated its whole program this week to addressing a growing and disturbing problem: the suspension of constitutional rights at the US border, where Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) …
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@exiledsurfer
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Six men convicted of murdering TV journalist in Pakistan — A Pakistani court has convicted six people for their roles in the murder of Wali Khan Babar, a Geo TV journalist who was shot dead in Karachi in January 2011. — The convictions are significant because they are the first in a decade …
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Committee to Protect …
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Reddit GM Erik Martin talks about the site's unlikely success and its new live-reporting feature — We've already written about Reddit's new “live reporting” feature, which gives users the ability to live-blog a breaking news event or post updates about an ongoing story like the revolution in Ukraine …
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@jayrosen_nyu and Boing Boing
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook Paper Update Pushes Virality By Sending Download Links With Articles You Privately Share — Facebook's hoping to get more people downloading Paper by adding new options to share articles by text message, email, or Facebook Message that automatically include a “Shared from Paper. fb.com/trypaper” link.
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@themediaisdying, 9to5Mac, @dancow and CNET
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