Mediagazer: Advance digital makeover of its newspapers — five years in and no turning back (Rick Edmonds/Poynter)

10:35 PM ET, June 24, 2014

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Nick Davies / Guardian:

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Hacking Trial: Rebekah Brooks Found Not Guilty on All Counts, Andy Coulson Found Guilty on One

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Gautham Nagesh / Wall Street Journal:

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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 …

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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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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.

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

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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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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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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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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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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.

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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.

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.