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Press Gazette:
Mirror publisher in £125k hacking payouts to Sven, Doctor Who actor, Beckham nanny and three others — Former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson (pictured, Reuters) and actor Christopher Eccleston have settled their phone-hacking damages claims for £30,000 each.
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Guardian
Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:
Dear News Corp & Google: An Open Letter On Their Open Letters To Each Other Over Competition — After media giant News Corp slings accusations at Google, the search & advertising giant pushes back. A close-up on the claims. — Last week, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp sent an open letter …
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Beyond Search and Wall Street Journal
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Rachel Whetstone / Google Europe Blog:
Google responds to News Corp's claim that it is a platform for piracy
Google responds to News Corp's claim that it is a platform for piracy
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Forbes, Complete Music Update, Beyond Search, @mattcutts, smartcompany.com.au, BetaNews, The Next Web, Guardian, @wblau, Bloomberg, Talking New Media, Independent.ie, CNBC, Hollywood Reporter, ValueWalk, The Drum, City A.M., TorrentFreak, 9to5Google, Financial Times, BBC and @markscott82
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Obama adviser Dan Pfeiffer: media relations are trickier now due to fast news cycle and social media that competes with legacy outlets to set agenda — Top Obama Adviser Dan Pfeiffer Dismisses ‘Fake’ Media Uproar Over ‘Latte Salute’ — NEW YORK — Dan Pfeiffer said Thursday that the president's …
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@buzzfeedben, @publicdiplo and ABC News
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Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
Obama's media diet: heavy on print/online news, light on TV
Obama's media diet: heavy on print/online news, light on TV
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@tmcgev, @mattyglesias, The Huffington Post, @raju, @joelcifer, @huffpostmedia and @bawli_booch
Ed Christman / Billboard:
U.S. Music Revenues Down Nearly 5%, Says RIAA — In the first half of the year, U.S. music revenues shrunk 4.9%, to $3.2 billion, down from the $3.35 billion that the industry tallied in the first half of 2013, according to the RIAA's mid-year report. — Within that, digital music revenue …
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New York Times, Complete Music Update, Music Week and AllAccess.com
Ben Grubb / Sydney Morning Herald:
Australian Senate clears law enabling Internet monitoring, jail for disclosing classified info — Terror laws clear Senate, enabling entire Australian web to be monitored and whistleblowers to be jailed — Australian spies will soon have the power to monitor the entire Australian internet …
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Guardian, Freedom of the Press …, Guardian, @freakboy3742, Mashable, ThinkProgress, Guardian, presstv.ir, Techdirt and Ethical Martini
Adam Gartrell / Australian Associated Press:
Tony Abbott and Barack Obama have both personally raised the case of jailed Australian journalist Peter Greste with Egypt's leader. — Abbott, Obama press Egypt on Greste — TONY Abbott and Barack Obama have both personally raised the case of jailed Australian journalist Peter Greste with Egypt's leader.
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Agence France-Presse, ABC, Sydney Morning Herald, @antloewenstein, Al Jazeera English, TheAustralian and Guardian
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Vast Majority of Top Films, TV Shows Are Available Legally Online: Study — Hollywood is delivering more movies and TV shows via legal outlets than ever, although most titles are available for purchase or rental rather than subscription VOD. — As of December 2013, 94% of 808 top films analyzed …
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SYS-CON MEDIA, IP&TV News and @mpaa
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Goodreads updates its iOS app with new home feed, streamlined navigation and improved shelving — Amazon's Goodreads App Finally Gets A Makeover — Goodreads, the social network for book lovers, has at last seen its first major update since Amazon bought the company last March.
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The Province, Goodreads, Good E-Reader, Engadget and GeekWire
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
TV Networks Offering More On Demand to Reduce Ad-Skipping — CBS, Fox (FOXA) and the other TV broadcasters are delivering more shows on demand through pay-TV services to wean audiences off digital video recorders, which let viewers skip through commercials. — More ads mean more revenue for the TV industry.
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Wall Street Journal
Richard Verrier / Los Angeles Times:
FAA gives drone exemption to Hollywood production firms — Hollywood will soon have a new angle on capturing aerial footage. — The Federal Aviation Administration announced Thursday that it has approved exemptions that would allow filmmakers to use “unmanned aircraft systems,” otherwise known as drones.
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Washington Post, New York Times, Broadcasting & Cable, faa.gov, @verticalmag, CNET, @snaprollmedia, Washington Post, Guardian, Mashable, Tech Times, Reuters, CBS Los Angeles, Fast Company, Politico, The Hill, The Daily Beast, New York Magazine, Variety, The Daily Gazette, Gigaom, National Journal and The Wrap
Carolyn Kellogg / Los Angeles Times:
Amtrak announces its first class of writers in residence — In the 1930s, hobos illicitly rode the rails; nowadays, authors are being invited onto trains thanks to Twitter and a new writers residency program launched by Amtrak. — On Wednesday, Amtrak announced the first class of resident writers …
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Quartz, Washington Post, @pwheeler_agent, @latimes, blog.amtrak.com, New York Times and The Verge
John Plunkett / Guardian:
Digital radio sales fall to six-year low — Consecutive quarterly gowth in digital's share of listening comes to a halt despite cross-industry marketing campaign — ‘Smooth soul man’ D-Love in a BBC ad for digital radio — Digital radio sales have fallen to a six-year low …
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Radio Ink Magazine and Music Week
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Netflix subscribers stream more than 90 minutes a day globally, 45 GB of data every month — Binge alert: Subscribers now watch more than 90 minutes of Netflix every single day — Just one more episode: All of your binge watching is adding up, to an average of 93 minutes of Netflix viewing per day …