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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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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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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
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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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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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
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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Annie Berrones / The Official Twitch Blog:
Twitch adds VOD to mobile apps; asks Android users to download new app rather than update old due to possible security vulnerability — Video On Demand Comes To Mobile! — You've been asking for it, we've been working on it, and it's finally here: VODs on mobile!
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Henry Mance / Financial Times:
MailOnline reports sharp slowdown in growth despite US push — MailOnline — the world's most popular English-language newspaper website — has seen a sharp slowdown in growth despite a much-heralded push into the US. — Revenues at the lossmaking website, once dubbed “journalism crack” …
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Erin Gloria Ryan / Jezebel:
How Al Jazeera America Went from a Home for Idealists to a Sexist Mess — On the morning of May 6, two manholes near Penn Station in Manhattan exploded in succession, spooking pedestrians and temporarily snarling traffic on 8th Avenue as investigators scratched their heads.
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Committee to Protect Journalists:
Brazilian blogger found decapitated in Minas Gerais state — Brazilian authorities must fully investigate the murder of a Brazilian blogger, identify the motive, and bring the killers to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The decapitated body of Evany José Metzker …
Shigeaki Koga / New York Times:
Former Japanese bureaucrat says Japan's treatment of press is more like an authoritarian state than a liberal democracy — The Threat to Press Freedom in Japan — TOKYO — During a press conference in March, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga expressed concern over comments …
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