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Al Jazeera acquires Al Gore's Current TV cable network (update)

By Chris Welch on January 2, 2013 05:05 pm + 108 comments

According to the New York Times, Al Jazeera is closing in on a deal to buy Current TV, the cable Continue reading…
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Google finally settles with Belgian publishers over content scraping lawsuit

By Sam Byford on December 13, 2012 08:02 pm + 8 comments

Google has announced an agreement with Belgian publishers that sued it six years ago over alleged Continue reading…
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Why TV news matters in the age of information overload

By David Pierce on November 16, 2012 03:00 pm + 24 comments

“And that’s the way it is.” For two decades, whenever Walter Cronkite said those words to end Continue reading…
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17-year-old Nick D'Aloisio launches Summly, an app that intelligently summarizes news

By Ellis Hamburger on November 1, 2012 09:03 am + 50 comments

What if you could summarize any news article into just a few sentences so you could more easily get Continue reading…
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New York Times and Wall Street Journal drop paywalls ahead of Hurricane Sandy

By Amar Toor on October 28, 2012 04:36 pm + 36 comments

Both the New York Times and Wall Street Journal are suspending their respective paywalls due to Continue reading…
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Eric Schmidt meeting with French government to discuss search engine levy law

By Ben Kersey on October 26, 2012 07:50 am + 53 comments

Late last week it was reported that Google was considering blocking French news websites from its Continue reading…
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Brazilian newspapers yank content from Google News, blame lack of compensation

By Andrew Webster on October 21, 2012 04:23 pm + 116 comments

Brazil's largest association of newspapers, the Associação Nacional de Jornais (ANJ), has Continue reading…
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Google to boycott French media sites if country passes law requiring search engines to pay for news content

By Nathan Ingraham on October 18, 2012 02:38 pm + 139 comments

Google is reportedly considering excluding French media sites from its search results if the country Continue reading…
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Can haz news? Cheezeburger Network's Ben Huh launches mobile news app, Circa

By Ben Popper on October 15, 2012 02:21 pm + 30 comments

Ben Huh, founder of the meme factory Cheezeburger Nation, and Matt Galligan, the man behind startups Continue reading…
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Internet Archive now lets you search and jump to any line in 350,000 news broadcasts

By Ben Kersey on September 18, 2012 07:32 am + 4 comments

The Internet Archive, home to the Wayback Machine, will today begin offering a TV news search Continue reading…