Mediagazer: Twitter breaks story on Discovery Channel gunman (Paul Farhi/Washington Post)

10:35 AM ET, September 2, 2010

Top News:

Tabloid Hack Attack on Royals, and Beyond — IN NOVEMBER 2005, three senior aides to Britain's royal family noticed odd things happening on their mobile phones. Messages they had never listened to were somehow appearing in their mailboxes as if heard and saved.

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Nick Davies / Guardian:

Coulson ‘discussed hacking at NoW’ — New York Times publishes allegations that PM's media adviser ‘actively encouraged’ unlawful practice while editor — The prime minister's media adviser, Andy Coulson, freely discussed the use of unlawful news-gathering techniques while editor of the News …

Discussion: New York Observer and Crikey

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

Twitter breaks story on Discovery Channel gunman — The news broke around 1 p.m. with a few sketchy details. Gunman. Shots. Hostages. Discovery building. — Within minutes, there were photos, including an astonishing one of a man clad in shorts, carrying a rifle and stalking through what looked like an office courtyard.

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TBD:

Discovery Channel hostage situation: Gunman, believed to be James Jay Lee, shot dead; hostages safe — UPDATE 2:25 All workers in building were evacuated. Many told to go home though they left personal items in the building. — UPDATE 2:21: Police are saying there is at least one hostage.

Choire / The Awl:
Discovery HQ Being Evacuated: Man Demands “Stop All Shows Glorifying Human Birthing”

Dave Levy / State of the Fourth Estate:
Discovery Channel Stand Off: The Day The Old/New Media Line Ceased to Exist

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Avner Ronen / Boxee Blog:

How Boxee Sees the Apple TV — Most of us at Boxee are Apple fanboys. If it is silver and it has the Apple logo on it, we pre-order it. If there's a line around the block, chances are we're in it. And everything stops at Boxee HQ while we unbox the latest gadget to come out of Cupertino.

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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:

Here's The Difference Between Apple TV And Google TV — Steve Jobs' Apple TV announcement today highlighted the huge difference between his company's efforts in the living room and Google's forthcoming Google TV. — Specifically, Google wants to turn your TV into a computer.

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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline.com: Apple To Offer ABC & Fox Shows For $.99; Other Networks & Studios Oppose Rental Plan

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Apple TV: $99 Device; $4.99 First-Run Movies; 99-Cent TV

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Apple:
Apple Premieres New Apple TV for Breakthrough Price of $99

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Ian Burrell / The Independent:

Has Rupert Murdoch's paywall gamble paid off? — Advertisers don't like it. Analysts are unconvinced. The paywall at News International may not be winning many fans, but the man behind it is determined to keep it standing. — As the fugitive businessman Asil Nadir flew back to Britain …

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Mike Oreskes / ap.org:

AP announces editorial guidelines for credit and attribution — Associated Press Senior Managing Editor Michael Oreskes has announced a new set of guidelines for credit and attribution to the AP staff. His policy document is below. — Colleagues, — In the age of the Web …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, eMedia Vitals and Editors Weblog

Josh Kosman / New York Post:

Trib creditors zero in on Zell — Tweet — Tribune Chairman Sam Zell's bid for immunity from legal claims arising from the disastrous buyout of the company could be slipping away. — The judge overseeing the Tribune bankruptcy case yesterday appointed a mediator to try to hammer …

Discussion: NewscastStudio Blog and Bloomberg

Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal: Tribune Talks to Be Guided by Mediator

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

AOL and Facebook Get the New Yorker Treatment — Within the next several weeks, the New Yorker magazine will be publishing big pieces about a pair of digital icons located on the East and West coasts-an assessment of the turnaround at AOL by staff writer Ken Auletta and a profile …

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Apple Debuts Facebook's New Music Service (Which Doesn't Run on Facebook) — My sources in the music industry were correct: Apple has been working on an iTunes update that's all about social, not streaming. — But rather than do the obvious thing-create a system that links …

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Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Apple announces iTunes 10 with Ping social network

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Irina Slutsky / AdAge:

Google Maps Gets an Ad Unit: Your Logo Here — Search Giant Says Algorithm Will Keep Logos From Getting Spammy — NEW YORK (AdAge) — After a six-month tryout in Australia and New Zealand, Google is bringing Sponsored Map Icons to the U.S., allowing companies to pay for their logos to show …

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David Folkenflik / NPR:

The Saudi Prince, The Mosque And Fox News … The proposed construction of an Islamic center and mosque close to ground zero in New York City has inspired intense scrutiny from news outlets this month — and few have outstripped the Fox News Channel in their interest.

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Shameful News Industry Willing To Sacrifice Wikileaks To Get Shield Law — A few weeks ago, we noted, with some disappointment, that the politicians who had been pushing for a much needed federal shield law for journalism, Senators Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein, were taking …

Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:

Sony's Multi-Platform Content Play Is A Qriocity — Sony's long-held ambition of providing a content service available to its game console and other devices is finally coming together. — At the IFA show in Berlin on Wednesday, CEO Howard Stringer said the cloud-based Sony Online Services …

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Bruce Golding / New York Post:

Sportswriter sued over failure to deliever Valvano bio — Tweet — The buzzer sounded today for a sportswriter who blew his deadline for a book on the late college basketball coach Jim Valvano. — Penguin Group slapped best-selling author Adrian Wojnarowski with a suit seeking the return …

New York Times:

Of Two Minds About Books — SAN FRANCISCO — Auriane and Sebastien de Halleux are at sharp odds over “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” but not about the plot. The problem is that she prefers the book version, while he reads it on his iPad. And in this literary dispute, the couple says, it's ne'er the twain shall meet.

Cynthia Littleton / Variety:

Time Warner Cable, Disney work on carriage deal — Extension of agreement likely if pact not reached — Disney and Time Warner Cable execs worked down to the wire on Wednesday in Gotham to hammer out a carriage agreement in advance of the 12:01 a.m. Thursday contract expiration covering four ABC O&Os …

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Lou Heldman / Wichita Eagle:

New York media should read Koch's book — There's a fresh wave of media fascination with David and Charles Koch and their political giving. — MSNBC, New York magazine, the New Yorker and New York Times columnist Frank Rich recently have been sorting — distastefully and with growing alarm …

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:

Paste Magazine Is Dead — We heard earlier today that Paste Magazine was in imminent danger of folding. Looks like it's already happened. More » — 02:50 PM — 211,268 — 461 — By Rosa Golijan … All the Cool New Stuff From Apple Today

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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

The New MySpace Movies, Presented By... The Facebook Movie — It seems as if the ads for Sony's upcoming movie The Social Network — you know, the Facebook movie — are everywhere on the Internet. They're here on TechCrunch, they're on VentureBeat, they're on Techmeme — they're just about everywhere but Facebook itself.

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