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5:45 PM ET, August 28, 2015

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Crown Prosecution Service considering corporate charges against News Corp over phone hacking  —  Phone hacking: CPS may bring corporate charges against Murdoch publisher  —  Metropolitan police hands over file of evidence on Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper arm to Crown Prosecution Service
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Financial Times:
Rebekah Brooks returns as News Corp's UK chief executive  —  Rebekah Brooks is returning to News Corp as chief executive of its UK division, a year after being cleared of all charges related to the phone-hacking scandal, according to people familiar with the matter.
New York Times:
European publishers are actively lobbying to strengthen copyright rules and limit Google's advertising power  —  European Publishers Play Lobbying Role Against Google  —  BERLIN — In private sessions this summer, giant publishers and media companies from Germany, France and elsewhere …
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Committee to Protect Journalists:
CPJ calls for the release of VICE News reporters, fixer, in Diyarbakir, Turkey  —  New York, August 28, 2015—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in the southeastern Turkish province of Diyarbakir to release British journalists Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury immediately.
Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
Apple loses Ian Rogers, ex-CEO of Beats Music and architect of the Beats1 radio service, two months after its launch  —  Apple loses key music streaming executive  —  The architect of Apple's online radio strategy has resigned two months after the launch of its Beats1 radio service, according to people familiar with the matter.
Eric Randolph / Agence France-Presse:
The British Library rejects digital archive of Afghan Taliban documents citing counter-terrorism laws, raising criticism from academics  —  British Library rejects Taliban trove fearing terror laws  —  Academics have criticised the British government for creating a “climate of fear” …
Alex Spence / Politico:
Crowdfunded journalism site Contributoria folds  —  The site provided a platform for freelance writers to publish articles.  —  LONDON — An experiment in collaborative online journalism backed by The Guardian is closing, its founders announced in a letter to members Friday.
Discussion: Contributoria
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Traffic from LinkedIn to SimpleReach's 1,000 publisher base drops 44% in first eight months of 2015  —  The traffic LinkedIn drives to publishers has dropped 44 percent this year  —  LinkedIn used to be a steady referral source for many publishers.  But that's changed as the social network …
Discussion: @digiday
Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
Afghanistan's spy agency has questioned six journalists in connection with Kabul Taxi, a Facebook page that satirizes politicians and bureaucrats  —  The government of Afghanistan seems weirdly obsessed with this Facebook page  —  KABUL - The Afghan government has a new enemy.
Keira Lu Huang / South China Morning Post:
President and vice-president of Chinese Communist Party's news website ‘taken away by investigators’  —  Chief editor was under pressure for stance on environmental documentary Under the Dome, sources say
Discussion: New York Times, Quartz and Reuters
Vanessa Quirk / TOWCenter:
Gimlet Media President Matt Lieber on native advertising and impact of future tech in podcasts  —  Interview: Matt Lieber, Gimlet Media  —  Matt Lieber is the President of Gimlet Media, a podcast network he co-founded with Alex Blumberg (of This American Life, Planet Money fame) that has gathered significant buzz and investors.
Discussion: @niemanlab and @airmedia
 
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