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Michael Meyer / Columbia Journalism Review:
After years of shrinking ambition, Jeff Bezos has The Washington Post thinking global domination — In April, six months after her family sold the newspaper it had controlled for eight decades to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth walked onstage …
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@jayrosen_nyu
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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Rebekah Brooks Says She Is ‘Vindicated’ By Acquittal In Phone Hacking Trial — Rebekah Brooks told a crowd of journalists on Thursday that she feels “vindicated” and “grateful” to the jury that acquitted her of a string of charges related to the phone hacking scandal. — Brooks spoke outside her home.
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Guardian
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Phone-hacking victims plan thunderclap Twitter protest
Phone-hacking victims plan thunderclap Twitter protest
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Reuters, @thunderclapit, Live Tweeting … and Press Gazette
Suzanne Moore / Guardian:
Rebekah Brooks: only the fools in charge of us would fall for her brand of fake intimacy
Rebekah Brooks: only the fools in charge of us would fall for her brand of fake intimacy
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Channel 4 News, @rebecca_omonira, Guardian, @sarahditum, @colvinius and Financial Times
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Al Jazeera Gains Support In Fight For Jailed Journalists — NEW YORK — Al Jazeera executives and correspondents pledged Wednesday to keep pressure on the Egyptian government following this week's widely condemned convictions of three network journalists on spurious terrorism charges.
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Mohamed Badr / Matter:
Al Jazeera cameraman Mohamed Badr describes his 7 months inside Egyptian prisons
Al Jazeera cameraman Mohamed Badr describes his 7 months inside Egyptian prisons
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Guardian, @stirman, @tom_d_, @marklotto, @fieldproducer, @readmatter and @jonamorem
Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
Google Starts Removing Search Results Under Europe's ‘Right to be Forgotten’ — Search Engine Updated Technical Infrastructure Overnight to Start the Implementation — The Internet is starting to forget. — Google Inc. said Thursday that it has started removing results …
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
John Seeley, founding editor of WSJ's metro section Greater New York, is out — John Seeley out at W.S.J. amid newsroom cuts — John Seeley has been let go from his job at The Wall Street Journal, where he was founding editor of the paper's metro section, Greater New York.
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FishbowlNY, MediaWire Daily, @joepompeo and The New York Observer
Todd Wasserman / Mashable:
USA Today uses content discovery tool Curiyo to keep readers from leaving the site — USA Today Tries New Way to Keep Readers From Leaving — USA Today is trying out a new content discovery tool to keep readers from leaving the site. — The newspaper has tapped Curiyo …
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@mica_ahmedabad
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Music industry reps call for uniform licensing across radio and web, but no consensus reached — More Calls to Fix Music Royalty Rules, but No Accord — Two weeks ago, a House Judiciary subcommittee heard from a group of music executives that the complex licensing system is broken, but no consensus emerged about how to fix it.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
MPAA Targets Reddit Community Over Movie Piracy — Every week copyright holders send millions of DMCA takedown notices to Google, hoping to make pirated movies and music harder to find. — Not all copyright holders take the same approach. Where the RIAA targets millions of infringing URLs per month …
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The Verge, @ppinternational and Daily Dot
Gustavo Arellano / OC Weekly:
Aaron Kushner claimed he'd save The Orange County Register and transform journalism. He didn't — Aaron Kushner's Wrecking Ball — The Boston millionaire claimed he'd save The Orange County Register and transform journalism. He didn't — They glumly marched into the third-floor newsroom …
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The Newspaper Guild, @thebenbergman, @charlesnlam, @laura_nelson and @ckrewson
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Sony Pictures Television to Acquire U.K. TV Networks Group CSC Media — The deal will add 16 channels in the kids, music and general entertainment space to its portfolio. — LONDON - Sony Pictures Television said Thursday it has agreed to acquire U.K. TV networks group CSC Media.
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Reuters, Reuters, TBI Vision, TVWise, Stock Market Wire, Variety, RTTNews and Business Wire
Tim Wu / The New Republic:
Supreme court's Aereo ruling forces Americans to continue paying too much for TV — The Supreme Court Thinks You're Better Off Paying $150/Month for Cable — The depressing takeaway of the Aereo decision — Copyright, while meant for creators, is always in danger in becoming the incumbent-protection-act for the media industries.
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Re/code, John Bergmayer, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal and International Business Times
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Sarah Laskow / Columbia Journalism Review:
With the Aereo decision, local TV news likely dodged disaster
With the Aereo decision, local TV news likely dodged disaster
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CNBC, Variety, Forbes, Gawker, Los Angeles Times, MediaNama, The New Yorker Blog, TechCrunch, Latest News & Headlines, Radio & Television …, Techdirt, Wall Street Journal, Aereo and The Verge
Tim Peterson / AdAge:
Yahoo to Charge Some Advertisers Only for Ads People Actually See — Portal's Viewability Product Limited to U.S. Desktop Ads at the Start — Short Form Video — Online advertisers have long known that a good chunk of their ads run in locations where very few people see them even when the webpage loads.
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Digiday and Wall Street Journal
CBC News:
CBC shifting focus to digital and mobile; reducing staff, news broadcasts, in-house production — CBC to cut back supper-hour news, in-house productions — Corporation will have up to 1,500 fewer employees by 2020 — The CBC is shifting its priorities from television and radio to digital …
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@cactusgipsy and @misterjohndoyle
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
‘Almost half’ of the NYT's blogs will close or merge — A lot of the advantages blogs offer will remain at the New York Times, Assistant Managing Editor Ian Fisher told Poynter in a phone call: “We're going to continue to provide bloggy content with a more conversational tone,” he said.