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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Fox News pushes back on Gawker report — Fox News says it has not retracted its claim that former executive Brian Lewis submitted fraudulent expense reports, despite a Gawker report alleging otherwise. — On Tuesday, Gawker unearthed a document filed in court appearing to state that the network …
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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
Fox News Retracts Fraud Claim Against Former Executive
Fox News Retracts Fraud Claim Against Former Executive
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@gabrielsherman, @ericboehlert and @davidfolkenflik
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BBC journalists to ballot for strike action — Union members call for overhaul of pay gap with managers, rejecting ‘derisory’ offer of 1% pay rise — BBC journalists are to ballot for strike action after rejecting an offer of a “derisory” 1% pay rise. — Members of the National Union …
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Poynter, Press Gazette and mUmBRELLA
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Jason Deans / Guardian:
BBC Radio to cut 65 more posts
BBC Radio to cut 65 more posts
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broadcastnow.co.uk, BBC, MediaTel, Digital Spy, Telegraph, Prolific North, Gigwise and mirror
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
The Vice-Time Warner deal, HLN, and CNN — With the news that Time Warner is seeking a major investment in Vice, the possibility of HLN's involvement raises a number of questions. — HLN has been teased as possibly going to Vice as part of the deal, though there was enough wiggle room …
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TVNewser, BuzzFeed, Inside Cable News, @antderosa and Sky News
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Stars from YouTube and Vine capitalize on internet success with live festivals and concerts — Performing Without Net: Stars of YouTube Take to the Stage — A capacity 12,500 tickets have been sold. More than 70 performers are appearing on three stages.
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Los Angeles Times
Maxim Eristavi / Columbia Journalism Review:
Reporter forced to leave Eastern Ukraine after Russian journo accuses him of “spreading lies” — In Eastern Ukraine, one journalist turns on another — A German reporter is forced to flee after a Russian counterpart denounces him on social media
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Poynter
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
NY Times Mag Names Bill Wasik Deputy Editor — The New York Times Magazine has added a new deputy editor — Bill Wasik. Wasik comes to the magazine from Wired, where he served as a senior editor. Wasik previously worked as a senior editor for Harper's. He's also the author of And Then There's …
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JIMROMENESKO.COM, The New York Observer, FishbowlDC, Capital New York, Talking Biz News and WWD Media Headlines
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Top PR Firms Promise They Won't Edit Clients' Wikipedia Entries on the Sly — Edelman, Burson-Marsteller Among Those Signing Pledge — Smart Marketing Using Big Data — Several of the largest public-relations agencies issued a joint statement Tuesday promising to play by the rules of Wikipedia.
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Edelman, TIME, The Drum, In2, @noahchestnut and MarketingVox News & Trends, Thanks:@steverubel
Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:
Andrew Sullivan's The Dish introducing ads for non-subs soon, keeping premium product ad-free — Is Big Online Media Doomed? — You only have to observe the painful and austere transition of Time Inc. to see the grim portents of a much leaner future. And a lot of this has to do with a double problem …
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Wall Street Journal, @jeffbercovici, @jason_pontin, @sullydish, @journo2go and @pernillet
Bryan Bishop / The Verge:
Sony formally announces PlayStation original sci-fi series ‘Powers’ — There were reports that it was in the works a few months ago, but Sony has now made it official: the first original television show for the PlayStation is coming, and it is called Powers.
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VentureBeat, Arcade Sushi, Observation Deck and TechRadar.com
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Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News:
Sony Sets Fall Launch For PlayStation TV
Sony Sets Fall Launch For PlayStation TV
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Home Media Magazine, Gigaom, Re/code, BelfastTelegraph.co.uk, Press Association, BelfastTelegraph.co.uk, Telegraph, Variety and Softpedia News
David Kravets / Ars Technica:
Google's university book scanning can move ahead without authors' OK — Court gives Google significant fair use protections. — A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the right of universities, in conjunction with Google, to scan millions of library books without the authors' permission.
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Guardian, Courthouse News Service, Publishers Weekly, Gigaom, The Berkeley Blog and Washington Post
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Mirror group faces new phone-hacking claims — Cilla Black, Christopher Eccleston, Alan Yentob and Davina McCall among new claimants for compensation — The publisher of the Sunday Mirror is facing compensation claims over alleged phone hacking from at least a dozen new litigants including Cilla Black …
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@davidfolkenflik and Guardian
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Report: Global digital news audience increased by 23% in 2013 — Digital news audiences have risen by 23 per cent in the last year, according to the new World Press Trends report, but publishers are not making the most of their increased audience in terms of revenue.
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WAN-IFRA, Gigaom, @cswope and Kirk LaPointe's …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
How a credulous media repeated dubious claims of a Turing Test milestone — No, A ‘Supercomputer’ Did NOT Pass The Turing Test For The First Time And Everyone Should Know Better — So, this weekend's news in the tech world was flooded with a “story” about how a “chatbot” passed the Turing Test for …
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@worldscifest, New York Magazine and TIME
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
Industry body representing Microsoft, Google, Facebook and others opposes Comcast/TWC merger — CCIA Opposes Comcast/TWC — Association says it threatens innovation and should be blocked — The Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) has come out against the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger.
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Boston Globe launches Capital, a new section for political junkies — Boston Globe wants to make political-junkie-style coverage accessible — On Friday, The Boston Globe launched Capital, a new section on politics that comes out Fridays in print and updates regularly online.
Rob Price / Daily Dot:
YouTube's copyright policies abused by rights holders despite protection of US fair use laws — YouTube's free speech problem — FROM OUR FRIENDS AT
The New Republic:
TNR promotes Linda Kinstler to Managing Editor, Amanda Silverman to Deputy Editor — Amanda Silverman Named Deputy Editor, Linda Kinstler Managing Editor, and Rebecca Leber Joins as Staff Writer — Washington, D.C.—Franklin Foer, Editor of The New Republic, announced two promotions and a hire today …
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@juliaioffe, @citizencohn, @jbenton, @chrishughes, Capital New York and FishbowlNY