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Emily Bell / Guardian:
Journalism startups aren't a revolution if they're filled with all these white men — Nate Silver has a chart to hire for ‘clubhouse chemistry’. Ever heard of something called ‘workplace diversity’? — When the predictive superstar Nate Silver announced last summer that he would defect …
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Rebekah Brooks denies giving evidence from ‘prepared script’ — Prosecution suggests that ex-NoW and Sun editor must have been ‘very much aware’ of what her co-defendants were doing — Rebekah Brooks has denied giving evidence from a “carefully presented and prepared script” …
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Press Gazette:
Brooks: ‘Climate of paranoia’ during last days of News of the World amid ‘police leaks to Guardian’
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Guardian and @gazthejourno
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Hacking trial hears details of Blair's offer to help Brooks prepare for committee appearance
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Guy Fawkes' blog and Guardian
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
News International ‘wanted Lord Mandelson to coach Rebekah Brooks’
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Adrienne LaFrance / Quartz:
Why venture capitalists are suddenly investing in news — Something curious is happening in the American news business. — Media organizations are hiring again. Promising young reporters are leaving stalwart publications for new newsrooms. And venture capitalists are pouring millions into nimble publishing startups.
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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Time Inc. spinoff probably won't mean name change for Time Warner — Time Warner Chief Executive Jeff Bewkes. — Although Time Inc. won't be part of Time Warner much longer, don't expect the media giant to change its name to better reflect its assets. — “We haven't decided to change the name …
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Jemima Kiss / Guardian:
An online Magna Carta: Berners-Lee calls for bill of rights for web — Exclusive: web's inventor warns neutrality under sustained attack from governments and corporations — The inventor of the world wide web believes an online “Magna Carta” is needed to protect and enshrine the independence …
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Mat Honan / Wired:
Twitter's irreplaceable role in breaking news means it can't crash like it did on Tuesday — Why Twitter Can't Keep Crashing — Twitter was down for quite some time yesterday. Once upon a time, that was an annoyance. But not anymore. Now, when Twitter goes down, it's a full-on problem.
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David Meyer / Gigaom:
Web firms face a strict new set of privacy rules in Europe — here's what to expect — The European Parliament has overwhelmingly passed a large package of laws intended to strengthen data protection - that's “privacy” in non-legalese - across the European Union.
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John Reynolds / Guardian:
60% of UK's video, video games and music sales now come from the internet — Netflix and Spotify help drive UK home entertainment revenues to £5.3bn — New figures show that three-fifths of Britain's video, video games and music sales are now derived from the internet
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Variety
Cadie Thompson / CNBC:
Rdio drops Echo Nest after Spotify acquisition, aims for global growth via mobile — Streaming music service Rdio aims for global, and mobile — Streaming music: More noise than competition? — CNBC.com Technology Reporter Cadie Thompson and Rdio CEO Anthony Bay discuss the trends …
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Tim Peterson / AdAge:
News App Circa Looks to Native Ads for First Revenue Stream — Mobile News Reader Plans to Introduce ‘Native’ Sponsored Posts — How Advertising Performs in a Social Media World … It's time for the mobile news-reader apps to become businesses. — One of the category's earliest players …
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Co.Labs, @miamabanta and @mhess4
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Ronan Farrow: Awesome on Twitter, Awful on Television — Ronan Farrow has the kind of resume that's difficult to match. He graduated from college at the tender age of 15; went on to collect degrees from Yale Law School and Oxford U., the latter on a Rhodes scholarship …
Mike Isaac / Re/code:
WSJ Journalist Liz Heron Joins Facebook in News Partnerships Role — Journalist Liz Heron announced on Wednesday that she will take a position at Facebook, where she'll work on partnerships between news and media organizations and the social network. Heron previously worked at the Wall Street Journal …
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VatorNews, NetNewsCheck Latest, Mashable and SocialTimes
Bloomberg:
Berkshire to Buy Graham TV Station in $1.1 Billion Swap — Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK/A) agreed to buy WPLG, a Miami-based television station, from Graham Holdings Co., the former publisher of the Washington Post, paying with stock that Warren Buffett has held for more than four decades.
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Variety, Benzinga and NASDAQ.com
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
Amazon Publishing expands to cover German-language fiction — Amazon has announced that it's expanding its Amazon Publishing arm into German-language books, and it's now looking to acquire fiction for Kindle-users and print-editions for sale through Amazon.
Michael Malone / Broadcasting & Cable:
Devin Johnson Named Tribune Broadcasting Digital Head — Back to Tribune after a stint at NBCU and others — Devin C. Johnson has been named senior VP and head of digital media at Tribune Broadcasting. Responsible for product development, social media, content, technology and digital sales strategy …
Press Gazette:
Condé Nast to merge two magazine websites to create new design portal — Condé Nast is preparing to launch a new decoration, food and lifestyle website - with a design inspired by fashion blogs and the image-sharing site Pinterest. — House, which goes live tomorrow …
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Guardian
Henry Taylor / TheMediaBriefing:
VICE News: 'We don't treat the internet like a low-rent version of other media' — “There's always been this view that this generation of young people aren't interested in the stories of the world,” says Al Brown, head of video for VICE UK, “Through our work you can see that young people …
Jeremy Hodge / Al Jazeera America:
An American journalist's account of his time spent in an Egyptian prison … I stood handcuffed in the prosecutor's office in Cairo's Dokki district, looking down at a three-ring binder notebook that had been seized from my apartment and lay strewn across the table.
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