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1:50 AM ET, June 25, 2014

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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
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
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
AT&T/DirecTV and Comcast/TWC mergers could put small ISPs “out of business”  —  If AT&T isn't big enough to compete, how can tiny cable companies survive?  —  A trade group that represents 850 small cable companies across the United States argues that AT&T's purchase of DirecTV and the Comcast …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Ex-Hulu CEO Jason Kilar teases video startup Vessel, raises $75M from Benchmark, Greylock, and Bezos  —  Amazon's Jeff Bezos backs ex-Hulu CEO Jason Kilar's startup Vessel  —  Former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar still doesn't want to say much about the startup he has been working on since last fall.
Discussion: Variety, @pkafka, Gigaom, @jbruin and TechCrunch
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 …
Erin Griffith / Fortune:
YouTube promoting Vice News in an effort to draw more ad revenue to video  —  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 …
Discussion: @mccollumashley
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
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Advance digital makeover of its newspapers — five years in and no turning back  —  It seems like only yesterday, but we are closing in on five years since Advance Publications shook up the newspaper business by stopping daily publication of the Ann Arbor News, dissolving the company and reincorporating as a web-dominant enterprise.
Discussion: @poynter
Sarah Sloat / Wall Street Journal:
German Publishing Group Files Complaint Against Amazon  —  Online Retailer Accused of Strong-arm Tactics Over Pricing  —  FRANKFURT—The association of German publishers said Tuesday it filed a complaint against Amazon.com Inc., accusing the online retailer of trying to strong-arm a publisher into more favorable pricing.
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 …
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.
Associated Press:
Egyptian president refuses calls that he pardon or commute the sentences of jailed Al Jazeera journalists  —  Egypt president won't interfere in courts verdicts  —  CAIRO (AP) — Egypt President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi says he will not interfere in court rulings, a day after three Al-Jazeera journalists …
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BBC:
Egypt trial: Journalists protest over al-Jazeera trio
 
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Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Tribune Publishing targets Aug. 4 for spinoff
Discussion: Poynter and @skbaer
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Times of London is going after American digital subscribers — by advertising on television
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Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
Former Gawker editor Emily Gould out as editorial director of 29th St Publishing
Discussion: bookforum.com
Trei Brundrett / Vox Media:
Collaborative writing and editing platform Editorially acquired by Vox Media
Ben Woods / The Next Web:
BBC launches a video news channel on Reddit in pursuit of further digital experimentation
Discussion: @bbcworld
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
The New Republic Expands Policy Coverage Online With Q.E.D.