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Nick Davies / Guardian:
Scotland Yard want to interview Rupert Murdoch about phone hacking — 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 — UPDATED: The jury deliberated a week to come up with verdicts for seven defendants, but will continue to discuss two more counts. — LONDON - The jury in the phone hacking trial …
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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, @jonathanhaynes, @psawers and BuzzFeed
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:
Egypt president won't interfere in courts verdicts
Egypt president won't interfere in courts verdicts
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Guardian, Poynter, @apdiplowriter, @monaeltahawy, @ap and ABC
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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Hollywood Reporter, @lenoretaylor, News24, @clinic4journos, Daily Dot, Crikey, ninemsn, NEWS.com.au, Agence France-Presse, Huffington Post Canada, mUmBRELLA and Guardian
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, MediaWire Daily, @carr2n and @anjalimullany
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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ABC News, Capital New York, Gigaom, Mediaite, Lost Remote and Business Insider
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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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.
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
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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FishbowlNY, @abeaujon and Riptide 2.0
Ben Woods / The Next Web:
BBC launches a video news channel on Reddit in pursuit of further digital experimentation — The BBC has been testing out new ways of distributing news recently and its most recent addition comes in the form of a dedicated Subreddit and video news channel on the site.
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@bbcworld
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 …
Peter Sterne / Capital New York:
Former Gawker editor Emily Gould out as editorial director of 29th St Publishing — Emily Gould out at 29th Street Publishing — Emily Gould has left her job as editorial director at 29th Street Publishing, Capital has learned. — Reached Monday, Gould, who has worked …
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