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A Note to Readers: The Decision to Publish Diplomatic Documents — The articles published today and in coming days are based on thousands of United States embassy cables, the daily reports from the field intended for the eyes of senior policy makers in Washington.
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Guardian editor says they gave cables to the NY Times — New York Times editors said Sunday that although the paper's reporters had been digging through WikiLeaks trove of 250,000 State Department cables for “several weeks,” the online whistleblower wasn't the source of the documents.
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The Nation, On Media's Blog, BBC, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Swampland, Guardian, TechCrunch and Money Game


How Twitter Scooped Wikileaks (Updated) — Twitter has out-leaked the leakers. About 12 hours before Wikileaks latest enormous leak was scheduled to be released, a Twitter user bought a copy of a German news magazine outlining the leak after it was placed on newstands too early.
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TechCrunch, Guardian, New York Times, The Atlantic Online, SAI, The Next Web, Swampland, VentureBeat, BBC, The Wire, Runnin' Scared, Mediaite, On Media's Blog and Clusterstock, more at Techmeme »

US embassy cables: The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassment | Simon Jenkins — It is for governments - not journalists - to guard public secrets, and there is no national jeopardy in WikiLeaks' revelations — Is it justified?
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blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Politics Daily and Crikey

Expected WikiLeaks disclosures prompts warning for editors — Government issues defence advisory notice to remind newspaper editors about their responsibility over leaked documents — David Cameron and other world leaders were being briefed by the US state department about what American diplomats fear …
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Telegraph, Boing Boing, WL Central, International Media and Guy Fawkes' blog

Salon Opens Parlor to Possible Partner — Salon.com is exploring opportunities to merge with or be acquired by another media company, an acknowledgment of the perilous economics of running a free-standing online news organization. — The site was a pioneer in online news …
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Gawker, MEDIA BEESWAX and New York Magazine


In Magazine World, a New Crop of Chiefs — For the magazine business, 2011 will be a year to watch — and not just because it could hold answers to lingering questions about the financial health of the industry. — Next year will be the first in a decade and a half that the four largest …
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Information overload, the early years — Five centuries years ago, a new technology swamped the world with data. What we can learn from the aftermath. — Worry about information overload has become one of the drumbeats of our time. The world's books are being digitized …
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Boing Boing


Don Draper's Revenge — Everyone is waiting for Omnicom, Interpublic, WPP, and Publicis to fade away. But these lumbering advertising behemoths have advantages over smaller, cutting-edge firms — John Seifert, the chairman of Ogilvy & Mather North America, shakes his head.
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AdScam/The Horror! and AdPulp


Reading ‘The Daily’ — The most interesting thing about Rupert Murdoch's iPad newspaper is what won't be in its opinion section. — Newspapers are the business Rupert Murdoch loves most—and now he's betting their future on an app. Early next year, he will launch The Daily, the first newspaper produced exclusively for the iPad.
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Meet the Un-Mogul Reinventing TV — Steve Burke Will Decide What You See and How You'll See It — and Change the Ad Model in the Process — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — At Manhattan's Eleven Madison Park, customers can dine on guinea fowl and Loup de mer. When 20 or so of the ad industry's …


How Arianna Huffington became Miss America — Los Angeles— From Saturday's Globe and Mail — The light bulbs are the first incongruity I spot waiting for Arianna Huffington in the photo-laden living room of her Brentwood home, the one she bought for $4.1-million (U.S.) as an infamous new divorcée in 1997.