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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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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
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
BSkyB Adds More TV Subs in Latest Quarter, Posts Lower Full-Year Profit
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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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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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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@kenearlys
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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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
BuzzFeed is reviewing Benny Johnson's work
BuzzFeed is reviewing Benny Johnson's work
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Washington Post, FishbowlDC, @laura_nelson, @poynter, Gawker, @juddlegum, BuzzFeed and @scotteweinberg
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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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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@chrisschaef and The Verge
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
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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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Sources: Google signed deal to buy Twitch for $1B — 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.
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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, Guardian, Digital Spy, The Drum, @jake_kanter, broadcastnow.co.uk, Advanced Television, Broadband TV News, @jimwaterson, @jamesrbuk and The Drum
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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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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