Latest and Breaking Media News and Top Stories - July 4
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian : More News of the World staff may face phone-hacking charges — Crown Prosecution Service considering whether to lay charges after police hand over files on eight Operation Pinetree suspects&n...
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PARIS (Reuters) - Apple has poached a senior executive from Swiss luxury watch brand Tag Heuer, which could be to help it with the launch of its iWatch expected this autumn.
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PARIS, July 4 (Reuters) - Apple has poached a senior executive from Swiss luxury watch brand Tag Heuer, which could be to help it with the launch of its iWatch expected this autumn.
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Brent Lang / Variety : 21st Century Fox Launches Mentoring Program for Female Directors — 21st Century Fox will try to bolster the presence of women behind the camera through a new mentoring program. — ...
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HARRISBURG, Pa., July 4 (Reuters) - Richard Mellon Scaife, the Pittsburgh area billionaire who helped finance the rise of the conservative movement in America in the late 20th century, died on Friday at his home, his lawyer said.
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LONDON, July 4 (Reuters) - Israeli digital advertising firm Matomy Media Group is once again seeking a London flotation, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday, just months after postponing its listing amid a stumble in high-pr...
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Longtime shock jock Anthony Cumia has been fired from his “Opie & Anthony” radio gig after unleashing a racially charged Twitter rant on Tuesday. SiriusXM made the decision to release...
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Mark Colvin / ABC : Peter Greste's parents meet up with son for first time since arrest — MARK COLVIN: The parents of the imprisoned Australian journalist Peter Greste have seen their son for the first time since he wa...
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Q2 2014 produced a first-ever total viewers quarter victory for ABC’s “Nightline” in its 12:35amET time period. The news program averaged 1.693 total viewers, beating its NBC and CBS late night competition by 298,000 an...
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In the third installment of our weekly partnership with 5by , the video discovery platform that curates the web’s best viral videos, we take a look at the top five videos of the week from the platform’s TV category. Trending this week is...
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The National Lottery's new TV campaign showcases the good causes that benefit from the organisation's funding.
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* Luxembourg PM says our rules in line with those in Europe
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch : Music Streaming Eats Downloads With On-Demand Up 42% Over 2013, Digital Sales Down 12% — Nielsen's U.S. music report on the first half of 2014 shows digital music consumption rapidly shifti...
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Just over a year after Guardian Australia's one-year anniversary, outgoing editor-in-chief Katharine Viner shares some of the lessons learned in launching an online-only publication in another country
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Wallis Communications, operator of WUFC 1510AM Boston, announced Sean Hannity can now be heard daily on the station, “Where Liberty Has A Voice”. The new WUFC 1510 AM with its 50-kW signal, is now home to a libertarian and personality dr...
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Good story sources aren’t always easy to come by, as most journalists can attest. And, the stress of deadline pressure can make finding those sources an even more daunting task. But, while there are several free services out there to hel...
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In an interview with Parade , “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace reflects on the advice he received from his father, the late “60 Minutes” correspondent Mike Wallace . “He had certainly always had advice t...
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John McCarthy / The Drum : Virtual Local Radio scheme launches with BBC Radio Northampton — The BBC is attempting to reduce costs with the Virtual Local Radio (ViLoR) scheme which will see audio stored and streamed fro...
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Long weekends call for good reads. This summer I’ve already devoured two journo-inspired novels: Sarah Cahalan’s Brain on Fire and Michael Hastings’ The Last Magazine. You might have already read Brain on Fire , so for...
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Andy Coulson, the former editor of the now defunct News of the World , was found guilty last week of conspiracy to hack personal voicemails.
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Rolf Harris has been sentenced to five years and nine months in prison in a court today for a string of indecent assaults.
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LONDON (AP) — Andy Coulson went from the editor's office at Britain's best-selling newspaper to the corridors of 10 Downing St. as Prime Minister David Cameron's communications chief. On Friday, he went to prison for conspiring to hack p...
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Lawrence J. Aragon / PE Hub Blog : Investors show little interest in Glenn Beck's The Blaze — Fundraising is going slowly for The Blaze, a news and opinion website founded by conservative TV personality Glenn Beck.&nbs...
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As Andy Coulson and two fellow former News of the World journalists were jailed , the judge detailed the full extent of phone hacking over six years.
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The project offers the potential to greatly reduce the cost and time needed to upgrade local radio stations, says the broadcaster
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Jodie Ginsberg / Index on Censorship : Right to be forgotten: A poor ruling, clumsily implemented — When Europe's highest court ruled in May that individuals had a ‘right to be forgotten’ many were quick to...
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Press Gazette : Mr Justice Saunders' phone-hacking trial sentencing remarks in full — Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson was jailed today alongside two former colleagues for his involvement in phone-hacking.&...
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* Luxembourg says tax rulings in line with international rules
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian : Andy Coulson jailed for 18 months for conspiracy to hack phones — Former No 10 spin doctor and editor of the News of the World claimed he did not know phone hacking was a crime —...
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He began as the firm’s director of global sales on July 1
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Will Arnold-Baker, the managing director of Publicis London, gives his view about Google's first week of implementing the European Court of Justice's ruling that people have a "right to be forgotten".
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Leila Fadel / Columbia Journalism Review : Why women are leading coverage of the war-torn Middle East — Why women are leading coverage of the war-torn Middle East — (Staff Sgt. Mark Fayloga / Marine C...
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"No one is above the law," said British Prime Minister David Cameron today in reaction to the sentence handed to former News of the World editor Andy Coulson—who went on to work for Cameron. Coulson was sentenced to 18 months in prison f...
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The latest convulsions in Jann Wenner ’s media empire — Rolling Stone, Us Weekly and Men’s Journal — all point to the ascension of his 23-year-old son, Gus Wenner, into...
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(Reuters) - Google Inc on Thursday reversed its decision to remove several links to stories in Britain's Guardian newspaper, underscoring the difficulty the search engine is having implementing Europe's "right to be forgotten" ruling.
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Mathew Ingram / Gigaom : The EU's “right to be forgotten” is a bad idea, and Google is handling it exactly the right way — This week, Google has begun notifying British media outlets that some of their news...
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Walmart has sought to revolutionize the in-store experience by adding navigation, voice commands, shopping lists, price comparisons, and other useful tools to its mobile applications. At next week’s MobileBeat — July 8-9 in San Fra...
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Jane Spencer, one of the founding editors of The Daily Beast, started by Tina Brown, has landed at digital network, Fusion, the Univision and Disney/ABC joint venture digital channel. Since...
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Ricardo Bilton / Digiday : How The Weather Channel hunts for innovation — The Weather Channel has found an unlikely new application for its weather data — fitness. — OutSider, the company's new ...
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Since the 2011 Arab uprisings, there has been little doubt that enhanced access to information and news contributed to political and social activism, pushing the boundaries of free speech, even for a short period of time, to beyond anyth...
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Ms. Loomis, 85, is retiring from Fortune magazine to a world of bridge playing and — you guessed it — continuing to edit her old friend’s writing.
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Reuters : Google reverses decision, restores several links to Guardian stories after publisher protests — Google reverses decision to delete British newspaper links — (Reuters) - Google Inc GOOGL.O GO...
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Google began its effort to comply with a European court ruling that said it must help people clean up their online reputations.
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Dan Pearson / GamesIndustry International : Twitch, the social video site for gamers, grows to 45 million unique viewers per month, 1 million broadcasters, 106 minutes watched per day by average user — Twitch - 1 milli...
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The wheel of the calendar has turned again, and July 4th is upon us once again, a day for the consumption of 155 million pounds of hot dogs, and fireworks -- 75 percent of the pyrotechnics industry's revenues ignite in an average 1,400 d...
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(Reuters) - Google Inc GOOGL.O GOOG.O on Thursday reversed its decision to remove several links to stories in Britain's Guardian newspaper, underscoring the difficulty the search engine is having implementing Europe's "right to be forgot...
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July 3 (Reuters) - Google Inc on Thursday reversed its decision to remove several links to stories in Britain's Guardian newspaper, underscoring the difficulty the search engine is having implementing Europe's "right to be forgotten" rul...
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Patrick Frater / Variety : Netflix Seems Headed for Australia, But Company Won't Say When — Content availability, piracy, and other priorities may be delaying the ‘Down Under’ debut — HONG...
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(Reuters) - Google Inc GOOGL.O GOOG.O on Thursday reversed its decision to remove several links to stories in Britain's Guardian newspaper, underscoring the difficulty the search engine is having implementing Europe's "right to be forgot...
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The scientific journal that published a study by Facebook and two U.S. universities examining people's online mood swings regrets how the social experiment was handled. The experiment prompted privacy regulators in t...
