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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Trinity Mirror more than doubles phone-hacking payout fund to £28m — Saily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People publisher is still facing claims from more than 100 high-profile figures — Trinity Mirror has more than doubled its phone hacking payout fund to £28m …
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Daily Mirror owners must pay £1.2m to celebrity phone-hacking victims
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Mirror's phone hacking made ‘News of the World look like cottage industry’
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Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News:
Techmeme adds an author leaderboard, introduces a linking-based metric to rank by “Leadership” — Today we've expanded our Leaderboard page to offer four lists instead of one. In addition to ranking publications, we now rank authors. On top of that, we've introduced a second ranking method …
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Digital breakthrough: Times advertisers agree to pay same rate for tablet edition as print — Times advertisers are to begin paying the same rate for display advertising in the title's tablet edition as they do in print. — The agreement, reached with a number of key ad agencies …
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@mathewi, @raju and @dannysullivan
Eric Blattberg / Digiday:
Mic's video series gets 33M views on Facebook in two months; the same series received under a million aggregate views on YouTube — Mic's hit video series on Facebook has gotten 33 million views in two months — Fast-growing millennial publisher Mic has the luxury of starting from scratch with its six-month-old video strategy.
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@slade, @digiday, @julianneross, @digiday and @brianne_garcia
Brent Lang / Variety:
New York Times Changes Film Review Policy, Can't Guarantee Coverage — The New York Times is changing its film review policies, with the paper telling distributors this week that it can no longer guarantee its critics will weigh in on every film that screens in the city.
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The Wrap, The Wrap, @dave_kehr, @alisonwillmore and @loulumenick
Shannon Bond / Financial Times:
Univision buys African-American news site The Root — Univision, the largest Spanish-language broadcaster in the US, has bought The Root, an African-American focused news and culture website, as the company looks to build a digital network catering to multicultural millennial consumers.
Brian Crecente / Polygon:
Rockstar parent company sues BBC over upcoming GTA drama — Take-Two Interactive today filed a lawsuit against the BBC over the broadcaster's upcoming unauthorized television show about the birth, growth and controversies of Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar Games. — The suit was filed in London Thursday morning.
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IGN, The Independent, CNET, The Verge and Guardian
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Medium refines strategy, emphasizing network value over Total Time Read, considers tying contributor bonuses to metrics like follows and recommendations — What's Going On At Medium? — The publisher/publishing platform is rejiggering itself as a social network for readers and writers …
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Medium, @disalmanacarian, Fortune, @trevoragilbert, @greylockvc, @rafat, @cm and @digiphile
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Tribune Publishing completes deal for U-T San Diego, changes name back to San Diego Union-Tribune — Tribune Publishing restores San Diego Union-Tribune's old name — Tribune Publishing just closed the deal on the newspaper formerly known as U-T San Diego. One of the first orders of business: restoring the paper's old name.
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UT San Diego and Business Wire
John Plunkett / Guardian:
Digital radio hits nearly 40% of all listening — BBC Radio 4 Extra overtakes 6 Music as digital-only commercial stations such as Absolute 80s and Planet Rock attract record audiences — Nearly 40% of radio listening is now on digital with record audiences for digital-only commercial stations including Absolute 80s and Planet Rock.
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
More than two dozen publishers agree to drop licensing fees for climate change content ahead of December UN summit — Global news organisations agree to share climate change content — The Guardian, El País, Le Monde and China Daily are among 25 publishers aiming to raise awareness in the runup to the next UN summit
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Mashable, @savethearctic, @unfccc and @dawnstover
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Time magazine, The Economist, Forbes, and Quartz among pubs creating audio versions of stories to engage mobile users — Time channels radio to boost mobile time spent — Digital media is going back to the future by channeling the early days of radio by giving digital visitors the option of having the news read to them.
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@digiday and Mediashift
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