Mediagazer: No Telegraph or Mail representatives on board of funding body for new IPSO press regulator (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)

8:30 AM ET, April 24, 2014

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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

No Telegraph or Mail representatives on board of funding body for new IPSO press regulator — The directors have been named for a body which will hold the purse strings and help decide appointments to new press regulator the Independent Press Standards Organisation.

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Peter Sterne / Capital New York:

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Rem Rieder / USA Today:

WaPo's Executive Editor Marty Baron and Publisher Katharine Weymouth talk about digital focus after Bezos purchase — Rieder: The resurgent ‘Washington Post’ — What a difference a billionaire makes. — It wasn't that long ago that The Washington Post was reeling, shedding staff and trimming ambitions as ad revenue plummeted.

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Sara Morrison / Poynter:

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National Union of Journalists:

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