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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
Kamal Ahmed / BBC:
BSkyB - James Murdoch's master plan comes closer to fruition
BSkyB - James Murdoch's master plan comes closer to fruition
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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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@peterlauria3 and @buzzfeedben
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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Nick Davies / Guardian:
The pervasive power of Rupert Murdoch: an extract from Hack Attack by Nick Davies — In this first extract from his new book, the reporter who broke the phone hacking story looks at Rebekah Brooks's 2009 wedding - and how it was a perfect display of the nature of Rupert Murdoch's hold on British life
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@peterjukes, @martinshovel, @mmfa, @dangillmor and @kenearlys
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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.
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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Politico, Gawker, Our Bad Media, Politico, Capital New York, Talking Points Memo, FishbowlNY, New York Magazine, @noltenc, @erikwemple, @blippoblappo, @barryap1, @mobute, @tajmagruder, @abeaujon, @samfbiddle and Poynter
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
BuzzFeed is reviewing Benny Johnson's work
BuzzFeed is reviewing Benny Johnson's work
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Politico, The Huffington Post, FishbowlDC, Washington Post, @laura_nelson, @poynter, @juddlegum, BuzzFeed, Gawker and @scotteweinberg
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
Pandora joins the billion-dollar music payouts club with Spotify and YouTube — When the likes of Spotify look to a possible future as public companies, Pandora remains the most high-profile example of a post-IPO digital music business riding the Wall Street rollercoaster.
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Wall Street Journal and @soundboy
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John McDuling / Quartz:
An epic battle in streaming music is about to begin, and only a few will survive
An epic battle in streaming music is about to begin, and only a few will survive
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@jeffmignon, @tcarmody, @morrowgl, @damienjoyce and @amchamkristiina
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Google Granting Around Half Europe's Search De-Index Requests — But Won't Show Its Workings — Following a meeting between European regulators and search engines yesterday, to discuss the latter group's implementation of a recent European Court of Justice privacy ruling …
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Wall Street Journal, The Daily Caller, Softpedia News, ZDNet, Reuters, Gizmodo UK, Telegraph, @techcrunch, Washington Post, Forbes and Ars Technica
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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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@jamesrbuk, @chrisschaef and The Verge
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Amazon Rolls Out A YouTube-Like “Video Shorts” Section On Instant Video — Amazon's Instant Video service has traditionally been thought of as both a rival to iTunes and Netflix, in terms of offering movies and TV shows for rent, purchase or for free streaming via the company's Amazon Prime membership program.
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Pocket-lint
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Sources: Google signed deal to buy Twitch for $1B
Sources: Google signed deal to buy Twitch for $1B
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Businessweek, TechCrunch, Guardian, Wall Street Journal, ITProPortal, Pocket-lint, @lucas_gonze, SlashGear, Softpedia News, @dannerdcubed, Electronista, TechHive, Deadline.com, Gizmodo UK, @lchen, Mashable, App Advice, Gizmodo, Polygon, Variety, The Wrap, BGR, 9to5Google, Android Police, Broadcasting & Cable and Eurogamer.net
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, Committee to Protect …, The Huffington Post, The Huffington Post, Mediaite, Washington Times, TIME, TheBlaze.com, Just Security, @davidferris, @modavari, Newsweek, Guardian, Guardian, FishbowlNY, @postbaron, @londonoe, @lizsly, @dwightbashir, @anpour, Voice of America, Fox News, Poynter, @benweinthal and Washington Post
Anne Helen Petersen / BuzzFeed:
The Down And Dirty History Of TMZ … For just $53, you can purchase a guaranteed front-of-the-bus seat on the TMZ NYC Tour. After stepping on the bus in the middle of Times Square, a TMZ-trained tour guide — handsome, blond, amiable Australian — will ask you and the rest of the bus if you're a huge fan of the show.
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@erikwemple, @erikwemple, @lahlahlindsey, @dkthomp, @jackiewarner13, @nathanjurgenson, Business Insider, @niemanlab and MetaFilter
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Vevo, the Giant Music Video Site, Tries to Fix Itself Before It Sells Itself — Music videos are huge on the Web, and Vevo is huge in music videos. It generates six billion views a month, and is crucial to both the music industry and YouTube. — Now Vevo's owners want to find a new investor …
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, @jake_kanter, broadcastnow.co.uk, Advanced Television, The Drum, Guardian, Broadband TV News, @jimwaterson, @jamesrbuk, The Drum and Digital Spy
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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FishbowlNY, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press and Folio, Thanks:@msebastian