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Nick Davies / Guardian:
Scotland Yard want to interview Rupert Murdoch about crime at his UK papers — Exclusive: Detectives contacted media mogul last year but agreed with lawyers to wait until end of phone-hacking trial — Rupert Murdoch has been officially informed by Scotland Yard that detectives want to interview …
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Hacking Trial: Rebekah Brooks Found Not Guilty on All Counts, Andy Coulson Found Guilty on One
Hacking Trial: Rebekah Brooks Found Not Guilty on All Counts, Andy Coulson Found Guilty on One
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Matthew Holehouse / Telegraph:
Phone hacking: David Cameron to make ‘profound apology’ over Andy Coulson
Phone hacking: David Cameron to make ‘profound apology’ over Andy Coulson
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@davidfolkenflik, International Business Times, @snoozeinbrief, @psawers, BuzzFeed and @jonathanhaynes
Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
Apple TV's walled garden gets new channel: AOL — With the arrival of an AOL video channel on the Apple TV set-top box Tuesday, Apple is now bringing a wide array of free, ad-supported video across the deep moat it has built around its $99 streaming-media device.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
ABC News launches Apple TV channel, no pay TV subscription required
ABC News launches Apple TV channel, no pay TV subscription required
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Michael Cader / Publishers Lunch:
Hachette agrees to buy Perseus in three-way deal; Ingram to acquire Perseus distribution and client units — Perseus Imprints to be Sold to Hachette Book Group; Distribution Units to Ingram Content — The owners of the Perseus Books Group have agreed to a sale of the company …
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
Technorati quietly killed its once-authoritative blog ranking system in May — There was once a time when Technorati.com meant something to online publishers. It was their professional reputation, and featuring on it was the goal of many. — Technorati hosts its own ranking system …
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Yahoo hires Daily News digital editor to build breaking news desk — Yahoo has been poaching talent from legacy media outlets for much of the past year, and in its latest landgrab, the massive online portal turned content producer took a dip into New York's tabloid pool.
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Politico, @anjalimullany, @carr2n and MediaWire Daily
Erin Griffith / Fortune:
Why YouTube is spending mega ad dollars to promote Vice News — With a billion people tuning in each month, YouTube's audience is almost as big as Facebook's. And yet, the network lags Facebook in monetization: Last year YouTube earned around $5.6 billion, coming in below Facebook's $7.8 billion.
BBC:
Egypt trial: Journalists protest over al-Jazeera trio — “The case is unjust,” BBC Director of News James Harding told the gathering — Hundreds of journalists have gathered in London to protest against the seven-year jail terms given to three al-Jazeera journalists in Egypt.
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Associated Press:
Egyptian president refuses calls that he pardon or commute the sentences of jailed Al Jazeera journalists
Egyptian president refuses calls that he pardon or commute the sentences of jailed Al Jazeera journalists
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Bridie Jabour / Guardian:
Australia's foreign affairs minister appeals to Egypt's president to help journalist Greste
Australia's foreign affairs minister appeals to Egypt's president to help journalist Greste
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
TV station swap: Fox gets KTVU, KICU in San Francisco; Cox gets Boston's WFXT, WHBQ in Memphis — Fox Acquires San Francisco TV Stations in Swap with Cox — Fox is acquiring two San Francisco TV stations in a station-swap agreement with Cox Media Group.
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Broadcasting & Cable, The Wrap, Radio & Television …, Media Nation and @dankennedy_nu
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
National Geographic explores new frontiers with Gary Knell at the helm — The sea otter story didn't make that night's network news or hit newspaper front pages when it broke this month, but it was kind of a big deal for the Web site that reported it. NGNews.com, the digital home …
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@jimrichardsonng and @postbaron
Trei Brundrett / Vox Media:
Collaborative writing and editing platform Editorially acquired by Vox Media — Editorially Joins Vox Media — The founders of Editorially—Mandy Brown, David Yee, and Jason Santa Maria—are joining Vox Product as we mark the next step in the evolution of our platform, Chorus.
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Gawker suspends staffer after story pulls from Miami New Times — Gawker Editor Max Read has suspended staff writer Jay Hathaway after he posted a story that drew on a Miami New Times story without attribution. An editor's note now adorns the post. Here's Read's memo to Gawker staff:
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The New York Observer, @abeaujon, FishbowlNY and Riptide 2.0
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Tribune Publishing targets Aug. 4 for spinoff — Tribune Publishing has set Aug. 4 as the target date for spinning off from Tribune Co., according to sources familiar with the situation. The spinoff date was included in a presentation for lenders conducted by Tribune Publishing June 17 in New York, according to sources.
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Times of London is going after American digital subscribers — by advertising on television — Watching the United States' down-and-up-and-down draw against Portugal Sunday night, I was surprised to see an ad for The Times of London: — (That's actually a U.K. version of the ad …
Gautham Nagesh / Wall Street Journal:
AT&T, DirecTV tell congressional subcommittees they must merge to compete with TWC, Comcast — AT&T and DirecTV Try to Sell Congress on Benefits of Proposed Merger — Companies Say They Must Join Forces to Compete Against Comcast and Time Warner Cable