Media
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Writers Guild East Elects Jeremy Pikser VP; Re-Elects Michael Winship President
Pikser ran against Matt Nelko; candidates for president and secretary-treasurer ran unopposed
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Scotland Yard to the Guardian: Reveal Your Phone-Hacking Sources — Or Else
Scotland Yard is claiming the British daily violated the Official Secrets Act
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Michael Wolff Shrugs Off Ouster Report in Latest Prometheus Drama
Adweek’s editorial director suggests that the New York Post may be “making bread from crumbs” in story reporting that his parent company is seeking a replacement
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Former Viacom Chief: Media ‘One of the Only Success Stories’ in Afghanistan
Tom Freston, who also ran MTV and lived in Afghanistan in the ’70s, says television has opened up the country
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CBS’ Moonves Happy Being No. 1, Especially Sans Hulu
The CBS chief told an amused Paley Center crowd Thursday that he prizes such primetime hits as “C.S.I.” too much to dole them out freely online
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Current TV Chooses PBS’ Shelley Lewis to Run Programming
The new EVP of programming will focus on boosting the network’s primetime lineup
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The Guardian Expands to U.S., Brings Lead Phone-Hacking Reporter
The left-leaning British daily is making its second run an American operation
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Netflix Shares Slide as Customers Drop Streaming Giant
The rental service lowered its subscriber projections by 1 million
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Legal Experts: Deadline Faces Uphill Fight To Make THR Lawsuit Stick
Attorneys will have a hard time proving that the Hollywood trade stole content by confirming the news stories her site broke
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Diller Mocks AOL/HuffPo For Fumbling Its Michael Arrington Situation
The mogul found plenty of time to praise his own IAC enterprises, but scattered snipes at his media competitors as he looked into the future
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Hollywood Reporter Calls Bull on Nikki Finke News Theft, Will Check on Copied Code
“It is not copyright infringement to report these stories, even if on occasion Deadline.com posts them first”
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Steve Wynn Loses Court Fight With Joe Francis
Billionaire Las Vegas impresario’s claim that the “Girls Gone Wild” mastermind owes him gambling money gets thrown out of criminal court
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Disney’s Anne Sweeney: Steve Jobs Pirated ‘Lost’!
At a Paley Center gathering, the Disney Media Networks co-chair recounted the first time the Apple chief showed her ‘Lost’ on an iPod. “I forgot to ask him how he got a copy of the show”
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Nude Scarlett Johansson Photos Pop Up Online — FBI’s Hot on the Trail
Racy photos of the 26-year-old actress purportedly hacked from her cell phone leak online Wednesday — FBI confirms it is investigating celeb hackers (NSFW)
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Why Nikki Finke’s Content Theft Lawsuit Is Interesting, If Still Batty
Finke is attempting something that is almost certainly impossible: Stopping reporters from picking up the phone and confirming news that her site has published