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Ronald Grover / Reuters:
A Fox-Time Warner deal would give Murdoch new heft in China — (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's plan to buy Time Warner would help the Twenty-First Century Fox chairman make larger inroads in China, a fast-growing market that media moguls are finding hard to crack.
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Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
Time Warner board changes bylaws to block small group of shareholders from forcing Fox takeover vote
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Al Jazeera English:
Shots fired into Al Jazeera's office in Gaza, a day after Israeli FM said Israel will work to close down the network. — Shots fired into Al Jazeera's office in Gaza, a day after Israeli FM said Israel will work to close down the network. — Gunshots have been fired into Al Jazeera's bureau …
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Sam Kirkland / Poynter:
Time.com's bounce rate down 15 percentage points since adopting continuous scroll — Three major news website redesigns this year look very different but have an important feature in common: articles that seamlessly transition to new content, without requiring readers to click or tap headlines and then wait for new pages to load.
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Loek Essers / Techworld:
Dutch court rules ebook reseller Tom Kabinet can stay open, says reselling not akin to piracy — Dutch courts lets ebook reseller stay online … Dutch publishers have failed in their efforts to immediately close down ebook reselling site Tom Kabinet. — The Amsterdam District Court ruled Monday …
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Robert Channick / Los Angeles Times:
Tribune newspapers worth $635 million, analyst says — With Tribune Publishing set to spin off from Tribune Co. on Aug. 4, analysts have begun weighing in as to what the stand-alone, publicly traded newspaper company may be worth. — In a report issued Thursday by CRT Capital Group …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Washington Post Heightens Wonk Wars With Storyline — NEW YORK — The Washington Post escalated the wonk wars Tuesday with the latest addition to the growing field of policy journalism. — The Post's new online vertical, Storyline, will cover policy topics through articles, videos and charts …
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BBC Worldwide chief receives £231,000 bonus despite fall in profits — Tim Davie says commercial division's revenues were ‘broadly flat’ if factors such as Lonely Planet sale are taken into account — The BBC Worldwide chief executive was paid a bonus of more than £230,000 last year …
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Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:
Netflix Passes 50M Subscribers As It Reports Better Than Expected Q2 Revenue Of $1.34B — This afternoon following the closing bell, Netflix announced the financial results of its second quarter, including revenue of $1.34 billion and earnings per share of $1.15.
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Why digital publishers want to be in the magazine business — There's a lot of positive talk about magazines these days — but, interestingly, it's coming from the digital likes of Yahoo, Say Media and Flipboard. — Backwards as it may sound, online “magazines” have become core …
Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:
As Spotify passes one year in Asia, piracy is still its number one challenge — In April 2013, Spotify first entered Asia with its launches in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. Now it's been just slightly over a year since its move into the region, but Spotify seems to be taking it slow with its expansion plans.
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Julia Ioffe / The New Republic:
The Russian Public Has a Totally Different Understanding of What Happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 — And it's more of a problem than you think. — Did you know Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was full of corpses when it took off from Amsterdam? Did you know that, for some darkly inexplicable reason …
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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
Forbes strategy: terrible for journalism and the public, decent for the bottom line — How Forbes got to $475 million — That's what a Hong Kong investor has agreed to pay for a firm that two years ago had trouble paying its rent — Integrated Whale Media Investments of Hong Kong …
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