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Juliette Garside / Guardian:
BSkyB to buy Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland for £4.9bn cash — Broadcaster to buy Fox's 57.4% interest in German firm, while Italian purchase to use cash and National Geographic sale — BSkyB is to become a pan-European broadcasting company after agreeing to buy Sky Italia …
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
BSkyB Adds More TV Subs in Latest Quarter, Posts Lower Full-Year Profit — The U.K. pay TV giant, in which 21st Century Fox owns a 39 percent stake, saw higher revenue offset by higher costs, including for English soccer league rights. — LONDON - U.K. pay TV giant BSkyB on Friday …
Kamal Ahmed / BBC:
BSkyB - James Murdoch's master plan comes closer to fruition — Today's announcement that BSkyB has made a £4.9bn bid to buy Sky Deutschland and Sky Italia from 21st Century Fox is, on the surface, a straightforward play by a British pay-tv business to become a European giant.
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USA Today and @stevenjbarnett
Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
Why Harry Potter And The Simpsons Are Key To A Fox-Time Warner Deal
Why Harry Potter And The Simpsons Are Key To A Fox-Time Warner Deal
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@buzzfeedben and @peterlauria3
Our Bad Media:
Six more plagiarism accusations against BuzzFeed's Benny Johnson — More Plagiarism From “One Of The Web's Deeply Original Writers” — Yesterday, this blog posted an article about serial plagiarism by Buzzfeed's Benny Johnson that came after said reporter called out another publication for plagiarizing his own work.
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Our Bad Media, @erikwemple, @blippoblappo, @barryap1 and @mobute
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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
BuzzFeed Editor Caught Lifting Text From Yahoo! Answers
BuzzFeed Editor Caught Lifting Text From Yahoo! Answers
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Politico, FishbowlNY, @bennyjohnson, @hunterw, @jktrotter, @juddlegum, @samfbiddle, BuzzFeed, @scotteweinberg, @davidfolkenflik, @timothypmurphy and Poynter
Financial Times:
Financial Times says digital subscriptions up 33%, making up 2/3 of paying audience; overall circulation up 13%, year-on-year — Financial Times - 2014 interim statement — The FT's total circulation is at an all time high - up 13 per cent year on year to more than 677,000 across print and online.
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Press Gazette, Guardian and @emilyjg
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Washington Post:
Iran confirms arrest of Post correspondent — Iran confirmed Friday that The Washington Post's correspondent in Tehran has been arrested on unspecified charges. — Gholam-Hossein Esmaili, director general of the Tehran Province Justice Department, told reporters that the …
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New York Times, Poynter, New York Times, The Huffington Post, Poynter, FishbowlNY, Committee to Protect …, Washington Times, TIME, Mediaite, @postbaron, @anpour, Newsweek, TheBlaze.com, The Huffington Post, Just Security, Guardian, Voice of America, Fox News, @modavari, Guardian, @londonoe, @benweinthal and Washington Post
Rowena Mason / Guardian:
Jimmy Wales says Google should not be ‘censoring history’ after web search company reveals it has approved half of requests — Right to be forgotten: Wikipedia chief enters internet censorship row — Jimmy Wales says Google should not be ‘censoring history’ after web search company reveals …
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The Verge
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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Google Granting Around Half Europe's Search De-Index Requests — But Won't Show Its Workings
Google Granting Around Half Europe's Search De-Index Requests — But Won't Show Its Workings
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Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, Reuters, Gizmodo UK, Telegraph, Washington Post, Forbes and Ars Technica
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Google's $1B purchase of Twitch confirmed — joins YouTube for new video empire — Google has reached a deal to buy game livestreaming firm Twitch for $1 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter. — Citing unnamed sources, Variety said back in May that Google had made an all-cash offer …
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TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, SlashGear, ITProPortal, @dannerdcubed, Softpedia News, @lucas_gonze, TechHive, Electronista, Gizmodo UK, Deadline.com, Pocket-lint, Mashable, Gizmodo, Polygon, Variety, The Wrap, App Advice, BGR, 9to5Google, Android Police, Broadcasting & Cable and Eurogamer.net
Amy Schatz / Re/code:
Major League Baseball Cries Foul on Net Neutrality Proposal — Count Major League Baseball among those who aren't wildly excited by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's proposal to allow broadband providers to offer fast-lane Internet access to content companies. — Last week, the sports league's …
Press Gazette:
Four security guards accused of helping to destroy Rebekah Brooks evidence have case against them dropped — Four security guards accused of helping to hide or destroy evidence around the time of Rebekah Brooks's arrest will not face trial, a court was told today.
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Guardian
John Plunkett / Guardian:
London Live applies to Ofcom to slash local programming — Four months after launch, TV station wants to cut primetime local content from three to just one hour a day — London Live's local evening programming includes Not the One Show, a reference to BBC1's The One Show.
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Guardian, The Drum, @jake_kanter, broadcastnow.co.uk, Broadband TV News, @jimwaterson and @jamesrbuk
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Comixology users can now download DRM-free backups of some comics — Maybe Amazon's purchase of Comixology isn't the worst thing to ever happen after all. Comic book readers on iOS have been fuming over the loss of in-app purchases following the company's acquisition …
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Publishers Weekly, Gigaom, Hollywood Reporter, PC Magazine, Cult of Mac, Comics Alliance, SlashGear, NDTV Gadgets, TechHive, Comic Book Resources, Comic Book Resources, Newsarama.com, Washington Post, Guardian, App Advice, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Boing Boing, Engadget, Good E-Reader and AppleInsider
Alex Ben Block / Hollywood Reporter:
Time Warner Cable Signs on for ESPN's New SEC Net — ESPN closed the deal, which also includes Bright House Networks, to bring carriage of the newest college conference network to about 60 million U.S. TV homes. — The college football conference that has been a big winner on the gridiron in recent years …
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Los Angeles Times and SI.com
John Plunkett / Guardian:
Newsnight's Evan Davis: 'It could all go wrong, but it'll at least be an adventure' — Davis replaces Paxman as lead anchor and faces the challenge of attracting a bigger audience to the BBC show — Evan Davis is the new star presenter of BBC2's Newsnight - but it almost didn't happen.
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Conde Nast's Golf World Magazine Goes Digital-Only — Fewer Than 10 People Laid Off — Creativity Top 5 — The 67-year-old Golf World magazine is closing its print edition and shifting entirely to digital media, where it will be part of the Golf Digest website, the magazine said Wednesday.
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Wall Street Journal, Associated Press and Folio, Thanks:@msebastian
Dara Kerr / CNET:
Judge takes issue with Apple's $450M e-books settlement offer — After the tech giant agrees to pay millions in the e-book price-fixing lawsuit, the presiding judge says, “I'm concerned about the terms of the settlement.” — Apple — Skirting an upcoming trial, Apple agreed to pay $450 million …
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Re/code, The Register and 9to5Mac
Samantha Smith / The Australian:
Peter Greste to appeal against conviction and jail term in Egypt … JAILED Australian journalist Peter Greste's family will appeal against his seven-year sentence in Egypt in an effort to “exhaust” all legal channels until a political solution can arise. — Greste's parents are already …
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Press Gazette, Guardian, Reuters, Yahoo! News, Brisbane Times and CourierMail