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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Daily Mirror owners must pay £1.2m to celebrity phone-hacking victims — High court judge orders Trinity Mirror to compensate Sadie Frost, Paul Gascoigne and others for suffering caused by intrusions — The publisher of the Daily and Sunday Mirror has been ordered to pay £1.2m …
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Mirror's phone hacking made ‘News of the World look like cottage industry’ — Testimony at high court details alleged culture of phone hacking at tabloid titles so prevalent it dwarfed Fleet Street rivals — After years of rebuttals, numerous assurances under oath to the Leveson inquiry …
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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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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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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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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
TV overtakes radio as most popular platform for international news for the first time in BBC history, as global audience passes 300M — BBC global audience passes 300 million — Television overtakes radio as most popular platform for international news for first time in corporation's history
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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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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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Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
New Deutsche Welle app, due in June, will have geolocated push alerts for eyewitness media — New DW app will have geolocated push alerts for eyewitness media — The German outlet hopes the new approach will generate more contributions and story ideas from all over the world
David Katzmaier / CNET:
Sling TV app comes to Android TV, adds ESPN Deportes — The $20/month live TV service is now available on Android TV devices like the Google Nexus Player and some 2015 Smart TVs from Sony and Sharp. Sling is also offering a discount on a Nexus Player, and announced ESPN Deportes as part of a $5/month add-on pack.
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Matthew Pennington / Associated Press:
US group: Foreign authors censored in China without knowing — WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S.-based advocacy group is warning Western authors to be vigilant of censorship of their work in China's fast-growing book publishing industry, which is sometimes done without their knowledge.
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