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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
BuzzFeed fires Benny Johnson after finding 41 instances of plagiarism in review of 500+ posts, will add note to each offending post — Editor's Note: An Apology To Our Readers — What we're doing about an episode of plagiarism. — Starting this Wednesday, Twitter users began pointing …
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Bloomberg:
Fox-Time Warner Cultural Divide Stands in Way of Merger — Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox Inc. and Jeff Bewkes's Time Warner Inc. couldn't be more different. One is essentially family-owned, the other purely public. One likes to contribute to Republican candidates, the other to Democrats.
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@edmundlee, @jcmccracken, Reuters and The Raw Story
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Murdoch's 21st Century Fox pledges to extend buybacks
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
BSkyB Adds More TV Subs in Latest Quarter, Posts Lower Full-Year Profit
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Elias Groll / Foreign Policy:
Russian Paper Issues Front Page Apology to Netherlands for MH17 — In the aftermath of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, many Russian media outlets have put forth a variety of ridiculous conspiracy theories to explain the plane's demise. In the face of overwhelming evidence …
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Gallup:
Russians Rely on State Media for News of Ukraine, Crimea — Few trust Western media or independent Russian media — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Most Russians have been following the news about Ukraine and Crimea over the past few months, with nearly nine in 10 paying attention before Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 …
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Mediaite
Adam Maksl / Mediashift:
More Than Yearbooks or Newspapers: High School Journalism Is About the Process — Last week, after spending 30 hours observing a high school journalism classroom, freelance writer and editor (and PBS MediaShift editorial assistant) Angela Washeck gave a first-person analysis of how today's students are producing media.
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George Arnett / Guardian:
The New York Times unveils Chronicle, an interactive app that plots news over time via keyword — Does the New York Times prefer cupcakes or cronuts? — The New York Times has created an app which allows you to look at the word frequency of different words throughout the paper's history.
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PandoDaily:
State of Pando: Exploding traffic, surging revenues... but some mistakes too — Back in February, Sarah wrote a long “State of Pando post, announcing our new Speaking Truth To The New Power tagline and sharing our plans for the Pando's third year. Since that time, a lot has happened …
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Nate Raymond / Reuters:
Judge Denise Cote expresses concern about e-book settlement as Apple's liability could fall to just $70M if her ruling is later reversed — U.S. judge says she is troubled by Apple $450 million e-books deal — (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday expressed concern over a proposed $450 million settlement …
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TechCrunch:
Apple Secretly Acquired “Pandora For Books” Startup BookLamp To Battle Amazon — TechCrunch has learned that Apple has made another acquisition, one that it is using to boost its e-books effort and “beat Amazon at its own game.” It has bought BookLamp, a startup based out of Boise, Idaho …
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David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
Journalists subpoenaed in ‘pink-slime’ suit — BPI wants emails from NYT's Michael Moss, public-health lawyer Michele Simon, and others — At least four journalists and a writer have been ordered to hand over documents to attorneys representing the largest manufacturer of “pink slime,” …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Australian Government Proposes New Copyright Law: Basically Hollywood's Wishlist — We've been covering the discussion around copyright reform down in Australia for a while, and it's continuing to get worse and worse. As you may recall, after a long and detailed process …
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Capital New York:
The 60-second interview, Matt Buchanan and John Herrman, The Awl, co-editors — CAPITAL: What have you learned in the early stages of your reign? Is editing a website hard? — HERRMAN: A lot; not enough. Yes. — BUCHANAN: Less than I would like? And the hard thing is sort of the crush of expectations.
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