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  • 19 July 2012 | The Telegraph

    Daily Mail and Daily Mirror guilty of contempt of court

    Two British Tabloids have been found convicted of contempt of court over articles published on the conviction of Levi Bellfield for the abduction and murder of schoolgirl Milly Dowler. The High Court in London ruled that the reports by the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror were “seriously prejudicial” while jurors were considering a separate attempted abduction charge against Bellfield. On Wednesday, two High Court judges found the newspapers guilty of contempt of court in a case brought by Dominic Grieve, the Attorney General. His action was brought against Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Daily Mail, and MGN, publisher of the Daily Mirror. The newspapers contested the action and said their publications would not have created a substantial risk of serious prejudice.

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  • 19 July 2012 | The Washington Post

    Polish media joins forces in charging for online content

    Several major Polish media companies will be joining forces in September to put some of their best online content behind a combined pay-wall — an attempt to maintain revenue as print readership declines. The initiative, known as Piano, has already been implemented with success in Slovakia and Slovenia, where people pay a small one-time fee for unlimited access to a range of websites. Digital visitors subscribing to the initiative will have access to premium content on 42 websites, including Gazeta Wyborcza and Forbes magazine, belonging to six media publishing companies. Most of the websites will still provide free content to continue drawing viewers to their sites.

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  • 19 July 2012 | The Guardian

    The Voice granted Olympic accreditation

    Britain's biggest black newspaper, The Voice, has finally been granted press accreditation for the Olympic stadium, following an intervention by London mayor Boris Johnson and other leading politicians. The Voice launched an attack on the British Olympic Association earlier this week after it refused to give the paper a press pass, despite the high number of black British participants in the Games and the obvious interest in the black community in stars such as 100m gold medal winner Usain Bolt.

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  • 19 July 2012 | Adweek

    Frey appointed as Yahoo editor in chief

    Yahoo has announced that Hillary Frey will take the reins as editor in chief of Yahoo News after nearly a year with the company. Frey was named managing editor of Yahoo News in October 2011 where she helped to shape the portal’s political and elections coverage, bringing on young fresh talent and establishing a campaign trail presence beyond standard political blogging. Frey plans to move Yahoo News away from a blog-oriented strategy to focus efforts on the continuing evolution of Yahoo's original reporting. "We're a newsroom, not a blog network.”

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  • 19 July 2012 | Press Gazette

    Telegraph claims 200-strong Olympics editorial team

    The Daily Telegraph today said that it will have a 200-strong editorial team working on its coverage of the London 2012 Olympics. At the heart of the coverage will be a daily Olympics supplement of up to 48 pages. During the Games the normal daily business supplement will be absorbed into the main body of the paper. An extra Olympic edition of the iPad app will be published at 5 pm every day and on Saturday the Telegraph is to publish a 60-page Olympic preview magazine. The Telegraph believes it will sell an extra one million copies over the Olympic fortnight and it has recruited a 100-strong team of street sellers to work at key Olympic venues and fan sites.

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  • 19 July 2012 | Olympic.org

    New social media tools for the Olympics

    A widget for media websites, a host of new platform integrations, and Live chats between fans and Olympians are among the latest social media initiatives unveiled today by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The offerings are part of a concerted effort by the IOC to reach out to fans and media by providing them with new vehicles with which to experience the Games. This included the launch of the Olympic Athletes’ Hub, where the Twitter and Facebook streams of past and present Olympians are aggregated for quick and easy reference, allowing users to track top tweets and trending athletes in real time. The searchable widget is available to media outlets worldwide and can be embedded on their websites to provide instant access to an athlete’s Twitter and Facebook feeds via the Hub.

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