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Matt Zimmerman / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
San Mateo D.A. Withdraws Controversial Gizmodo iPhone Warrant — Today, San Mateo Superior Court Judge Clifford Cretan granted an application by the San Mateo County D.A.'s office to withdraw the controversial warrant it obtained to search the house of Gizmodo.com journalist Jason Chen.
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Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
Gawker Media Deals Its Way Out of iPhone Search Warrant — A California court has granted the request of local prosecutors to withdraw a controversial search warrant against an editor for the tech site Gizmodo over its scoop about the iPhone 4G. — Prosecutors reached an agreement with Thomas Nolan …
Rick Edmonds / The Biz Blog:
Gannett Ups Digital Revenues and Experimentation — Friday morning, Gannett reported second-quarter earnings that were more than double those of the same quarter a year ago, but the news of the day was a series of new business initiatives. — The company has now built digital revenues …
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Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
Gannett says second-quarter profit more than doubled
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Gene Weingarten / Washington Post:
Gene Weingarten column mentions Lady Gaga. — Not very long ago, the typical American newsroom had three types of jobs: reporter, editor and photographer. But lately, as newspapers have been frantically converting themselves into high-tech, 24-hour online operations, things are more complicated.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Ex-Google News, Bing Engineers Set Out To Build ‘Newspaper Of The Future’ — Delivering news digitally in a personalized manner is a nut many a startup - as well as many established Internet companies and publishers - are desperately trying to crack. — A newly-founded Palo Alto startup called Hawthorne Labs is one of them.
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Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
No, seriously: What the Old Spice ads can teach us about news' future — BrandFlakesforBreakfast might have put it best: “...If you live in a cave, you need to be aware of the fact that Old Spice owned the internet yesterday.” — Indeed. How the brand did that owning is fascinating …
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Laura Conaway / The Rachel Maddow Show:
Louis C.K. gets Terry Gross, Fresh Air run out of Mississippi — On Monday, Mississippi Public Broadcasting announced it had dropped Terry Gross and Fresh Air because of “recurring inappropriate content.” (Full disclosure: I used to work for NPR.) — The blog that first reported the news …
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
NBCU Profits, Revenues Gain; Good Enough For Parent GE — NBC Universal's earnings performance in Q2 was described as “good” by parent General Electric (NYSE: GE) this morning, as the expected sale to Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) inches closer. The broadcaster's profit's were up 13 percent …
Jeff Schogol / Stars & Stripes:
Media groups side with Westboro Baptist Church — It is a journalism cliché that media are supposed to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, so it may come as a surprise that 22 media groups have sided with a hate group against the father of a fallen Marine.
Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
WP taps Sullivan to oversee features sections and Sunday paper — To the Staff: — We are pleased to announce several leadership changes in the newsroom that will put a stronger emphasis on our Sunday editions and strengthen the leadership of our features sections.
Judy Sims / SimsBlog:
If Newspapers Cease to Be, There Will be Two Causes of Death — Part 2 — Cause of Death #2: Failure to focus on ROI — Mainstream media organizations have spent insane amounts of time and effort trying to teach traditional sales reps to sell digital ads (give up, they will never do it well).
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Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
Hulu Plus on the PS3: Less Content Than on the Web — Sony started to roll out a limited test of Hulu Plus on the PlayStation 3 yesterday, and first user feedback reveals a troubling shortcoming: Apparently, PlayStation users won't be able to access some of the content that's available …
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Elizabeth Guider / Hollywood Reporter:
Primetime to get racier after FCC ruling — VIDEO: ‘Friends With Benefits,’ others feature risque scenes — There was a particularly unbridled episode of Fox's “American Dad” in January in which Stan, well, gave “full release” to a racehorse. That shenanigan was duly hit with an FCC fine.
Media Week:
Elle has a hit with Twitter feed — Elleuk.com, digital home to fashion magazine Elle, has increased its Twitter followers from 17,000 at the beginning of the year to 100,000. — Elle Collections: the biannual glossy — The results places it at least 66,000 Twitter followers above …
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:
Crowdsourcing the pain of transcribing audio — The trouble with recording interviews is that you have to transcribe them. So after one of my forays to New Haven last week, where I interviewed people in connection with a book I'm working on about community news sites …
Kris Viesselman / The Society for News Design:
An open letter on the value of Design — Like many of our colleagues, we read with concern this week's announcement of Gannett's plans for regional hubs to build pages for many of their newspapers. This plan is similar to others that have sought to template publications and centralize parts …
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