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The Blagger's Blog 13th June 2012
Holmes and Cruise, Fifty Shades of Grey, Bloody Sunday, GlaxoSmithKline fraud,Coca Cola hug for a drink, London BLOC Twitter failure- plus more media news.
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The Blagger's Blog 6th July 2012
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Nexus 7: Google's impending disaster?
Brand new tablet from the web and media giant arrives in two weeks, but without rights to magazine, music, TV and film content. Limited? We certainly think so.
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The Blagger's Blog 29th June 2012
Icelandair gives away flights in Manchester, RBS takes money but won't give any back (for a few days), whilst tweets suggest Bieber is the new Cobain. Blagger's blog, media and PR news, of course.
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News Corp divides (but can the publishing arm afford it?)
The founding father's beloved multi-national will separate into broadcast and print interests, with the latter looking by far the weaker of the two media arms.
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Twitter's latest offer to the business world, and a brand new network well worth investigating from Huffington Post's former CTO, investigated.
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Digital experiments at The Times
As newspapers continue to try and plug leaking bank balances Britain's oldest daily flirts with free online journalism, despite its website being behind that paywall.
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June 2012 in the Smoking Gun study
With a new client win and plenty of hope for an improvement in the weather all eyes are fixed on the future, and Christmas long-lead press.
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