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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.
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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, Telegraph, USA Today, @lisaocarroll, @davidfolkenflik, @lisaocarroll, Inforrm's Blog and @davidfolkenflik
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.
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Twitter lawyers fight effort to impel disclosure of a user's real name in James Woods defamation suit — Twitter Sends James Woods a Scathing Letter Over Attempt to Unmask Anonymous User — Twitter tells the politically-outspoken actor that calling him a “cocaine addict” appears to be hyperbole.
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 …
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 …
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@digiday
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Al Jazeera America Senior Vice President of News Output Mary Caraccioli leaves, the fifth female executive to depart the network in recent months — Al Jazeera America loses another female executive — Al Jazeera America has parted ways with another top female executive …
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The Huffington Post
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.
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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.
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Contributoria
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.
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Khaama Press (KP), The Nation News and Reporters Without Borders
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” …
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BBC, Guardian, Business Standard, Tamil Guardian, A Different Place, @davidjgary, @shirazmaher, @ajaltamimi, @iamkennie_p, @naomiohreally and @yahoonews
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
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New York Times, Quartz and Reuters
Micah Singleton / The Verge:
Sources: YouTube to launch Music Key and its unnamed video subscription service this year — YouTube as you know it is about to change dramatically — The way you experience YouTube may be dramatically different before the end of the year. According to multiple sources …
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