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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Jon Stewart of ‘The Daily Show’ Takes On Fox News — George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are long gone. Fox News Channel is Jon Stewart's new enemy No. 1. — Last week that comedian did something that the hosts of “Fox & Friends,” the morning show on Fox News, did not do …
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Google highlights fair use defense to YouTube takedowns — Google has improved highlighted its ContentID copyright enforcement system for YouTube, a “fair use” button for people who've had their videos taken offline (like all those people who created Hitler/Downfall parodies).
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Writers Guild Explores Rules for Uncharted Online Video World — SAN FRANCISCO — The Writers Guild of America, the big trade union representing film and television writers, is developing rules around writing original online video content. — Spearheading the effort is Tamara Krinsky …
Brian Steinberg / AdAge:
Cable Channel's User-Created TV Spot Goes National — Viewer's Ad for SunChips Brand Chosen From Contest on Current — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Cable-channel Current has long encouraged its viewers to create their own commercials for the channel's advertisers.
Deborah Potter / NewsLab:
Is the TV package outdated? — Consider this: at many local television stations, reporters cover two or more stories a day and never turn a package. Former news director Geoff Roth, who now teaches at Hofstra University, says the trend toward covering the news with live shots and v/o's or v/o-sots is not going away.
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Bias or Balance? Media Wrestle With Faltering Trust — The public's widespread disgust with government officials has been well documented, most recently in polling by the Pew Research Center and NPR. — But the news media — the institutions that accept the mission to hold those officials accountable …
The National Union of Journalists:
Johnston Scarborough journalists to strike on Friday — Journalists employed in Yorkshire by the Johnston Press Group at Scarborough, Whitby and Malton are taking strike action next Friday (April 30) in the NUJ dispute with the group over the introduction of the Atex content management system …
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Danny Shea / The Huffington Post:
‘30 Rock’ Mocks Ben Silverman In ‘Bitch Hunter’ Clip (VIDEO) — Ben Silverman may be gone from NBC, but he's not forgotten at “30 Rock.” — The former NBC entertainment chief, who now runs IAC-backed production outfit Electus, was mocked in a clip of a fake show called “Bitch Hunter.”
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Changes at ABC News Assignment Desk — ABC News president David Westin has announced a restructuring of the newsgathering apparatus of the divison. — “The Desk will become a more active partner with the programs and platforms in choosing the right stories to cover,” Westin writes to the staff, in an email obtained by TVNewser.
Alexandra Fenwick / CJR:
You Pick It, You Report It — The Faster Times plots a new pro-am collaboration — The Faster Times, an online newspaper launched in July 2009 (tagline: “A new type of newspaper for a new type of world"), has introduced a new kind of investigative model for that new world.
James McQuivey / paidContent:
Why Hulu Will—And Should—Charge For Hulu Plus — The Hulu-will-charge-you-money rumor mill is churning once again, and the blogosphere has lit up with preemptively angered Hulu viewers vowing that they will never darken Hulu's digital door again. Some call it greed, others point …
MaryAnn Spoto / New Jersey Online:
N.J. court rules blogger is not protected under shield law in porn company defamation case … FREEHOLD — A blogger sued for defamation because of her writings about a Freehold software company is not a journalist and is not covered by a law that protects them from revealing confidential sources, an appellate court ruled today.
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