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5:45 AM ET, June 25, 2014

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Nick Davies / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch: Scotland Yard want interview 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 …
Paul Resnikoff / Digital Music News:
The Complete YouTube Contract for Indies  —  F*&K It: Here's the Entire YouTube Contract for Indies...  This Sound Recording and Audiovisual Content License, including the Metadata Feed, and the exhibits attached hereto and incorporated by reference herein (the “Agreement") …
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 …
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
Emily Steel / New York Times:
Time Inc. launches 120 Sports, a digital only sports network, with Pro Leagues, NFL  —  Time Inc. to Start 120 Sports, a Digital Network, With Pro Leagues  —  It's a sports network catering to the shortened attention spans of the mobile and social media generation: 240 clips …
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.
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: @pkafka and @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
 
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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:
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Ben Woods / The Next Web:
BBC launches a video news channel on Reddit in pursuit of further digital experimentation
Discussion: @bbcworld