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Nikkei to buy FT Group for £844m from Pearson — Henry Mance, Arash Massoudi and James Fontanella-Khan — Nikkei, Japan's largest media company, is to buy the FT Group from Pearson for £844m, bringing the curtain down on the UK-based company's 58-year ownership of the global news organisation.
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Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:
For 58 years, Pearson kept a hands-off approach to FT's newsroom, which built its digital strength recently with metered news access — Hands-off owner hands over FT after 58 years — The Financial Times has covered countless takeovers since its creation in 1888, and detailed waves of consolidation …
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World News Publishing Focus … and @zseward
Ezra Klein / Vox:
In 3 years, media will become wire services that operate across many platforms, gaining audience, but losing ability to create custom designs — Is the media becoming a wire service? — I'm going to make some predictions about the future of the media in this piece, and they come …
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Poynter, @lindastern, @saila, @newswhip, @davewiner, @alexgspence and @benmullin
Associated Press:
San Diego's Daily Transcript to close after nearly 130 years — 1 photo — SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Daily Transcript of San Diego said Wednesday it will publish its last edition Sept. 1, ending a nearly 130-year run in the newspaper business. — The newspaper is no longer viable due …
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The San Diego Union-Tribune
Associated Press:
Turkish journalist fired over anti-Erdogan tweet — ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A prominent Turkish journalist has been fired by his newspaper over a tweet which suggested that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was responsible for a suicide bombing this week that killed 32 people.
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DailySabah, Hürriyet Daily News and PressTV Media RSS
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Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Apple Music nightmare: adding music doesn't work as expected, lost access to 4,700 songs after turning off the service — ∞ Apple Music is a nightmare and I'm done with it — I love Apple. I love them because they take difficult problems and come up with innovative, simple solutions.
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The Next Web, Six Colors, Business Insider, Fortune, @janole, Mashable, @davidbyttow, Daring Fireball, App Advice, BGR and Boing Boing
James Kanter / New York Times:
E.U. Opens Antitrust Case Against Major U.S. Studios and Sky UK — BRUSSELS — The European Union's top antitrust authority on Thursday charged major American film studios and a television company in Britain with unfairly blocking access to movies and other content.
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
One of the best things a news startup can do for its financial health: Hire a professional ad person — A new report from the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism, out Thursday, interviewed 22 digital publishers, most of which launched in the last 10 years, to determine best practices for …
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Tow-Knight
Sam Thielman / Guardian:
Nick Denton will have a harder time under questioning in Hulk Hogan case due to the removal of recent Gawker story — Gawker's latest privacy scandal poses dilemma in $100m Hulk Hogan lawsuit — Nick Denton, who is named in a suit over a sex tape of Hogan posted by Gawker …
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Digital Content Next, bookforum.com and Los Angeles Times
Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed:
Product Hunt launches book discovery section featuring author AMAs, community discussion — Product Hunt Wants To Help You Read More Books — The tech discovery site is launching a new book section that seems suspiciously like something a fan of Product Hunt would want read. — medium.com
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The New York Observer, Medium, VentureBeat and Fortune
Henry Mance / Financial Times:
Daily Mail shares fall 11 per cent after poor advertising sales — Daily Mail and General Trust shares fell 11 per cent to a four-month low, after it became the latest newspaper publisher to be hit by falling UK advertising. — Advertising at its titles — including the Daily Mail …
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Comcast Q2: profit up 7.3%, net income $2.14B, revenue up 11% to $18.74B on strong box office and broadband sales — Comcast Earnings Boosted by ‘Jurassic World’, ‘Furious 7’ — Cable operator sheds fewer cable-TV customers, but broadband growth slows — Comcast Corp. 's second-quarter …
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Broadcasting & Cable, Associated Press, Deadline, CNNMoney, New York Times, Reuters and Bloomberg Business
Dustin Volz / National Journal:
Sen. Al Franken, Consumer Watchdog ask regulators to investigate Apple Music for possible anticompetitive practices — Al Franken Urges Federal Probe of Apple Music — The senator warns of limited competition and price increases due to Apple's new music-streaming service.
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Consumerist, The Verge and The Hill
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Micah Singleton / The Verge:
FTC investigation into Apple heats up, music streaming services hit with subpoenas
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