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12:20 PM ET, February 4, 2011

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We've compiled a list of all the journalist who have been in some way threatened, attacked or detained while reporting in Egypt.  When you put it all into one list, it is a rather large number in such a short period of time.  (UPDATED - send us more stories if you get them)
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Network Anchors Leave Egypt Amid Crackdown  —  Two of the most prominent television news anchors covering the protests in Egypt this week, Brian Williams and Katie Couric, have exited the country.  —  The anchors' departures came on a day of increasing violence and intimidation directed at journalists in Egypt.
New York Times:
Gangs Hunt Journalists and Rights Workers  —  CAIRO — Security forces and gangs chanting in favor of the Egyptian government hunted down journalists at their offices and in the hotels where many had taken refuge on Thursday in a widespread and overt campaign of intimidation aimed at suppressing reports from the capital.
Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Egyptian VP criticizes ‘unfriendly TV stations’
Discussion: Swampland, MediaShift and AOL News
Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard:
Murdoch's Daily: post-Web innovation or CD-ROM flashback?  —  A decade ago, if you were a “digital” person — if you were interested in how computer technology was changing our culture and economy — then you were a Web person.  The Web, built on top of the Internet and ultimately eclipsing its source …
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Waxy.org:
The Daily: Indexed  —  Anybody else think it's weird that The Daily …
Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:
The Daily, a tablet newspaper for ‘everybody,’ is as much Apple as News Corp.
Discussion: Yahoo! News
Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
Fake, unofficial Daily Tumblrs terrorize Murdoch's iPad pub
Matt Kinsman / Folio:
Media Dealmakers Summit: “The Web Is Dead”  —  Panelists say torch has passed to the “app Internet.”  —  New York—There was a question during the morning session today at the DeSilva + Phillips Media Dealmakers Summit that crystallized what a lot of people are thinking about the future.
Zeke Turner / WWD Media Headlines:
Debating Wikileaks and the Law  —  New York Times executive editor Bill Keller and Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger — partners in crime, perhaps, with Julian Assange — sat together on a panel at Columbia University's Low Library last night.  Former assistant attorney general Jack Goldsmith joined …
Discussion: The Wire
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Sam Gustin / Threat Level:
Times Editor Alarmed By Prospect of WikiLeaks Prosecution  —  NEW YORK — New York Times executive editor Bill Keller may not regard Julian Assange as a journalistic peer, but he made clear Thursday that he doesn't think the WikiLeaks founder should face criminal prosecution in the United States.
Wall Street Journal:
Billboards Get Wired  —  Billboards and posters are one of world's oldest forms of advertising.  Now, some marketers and start-ups say wireless technology could revamp outdoor advertising by bringing interactivity and pay-for-performance models.  —  Super Bowl Fans Sing Same Song
Discussion: THINQ.co.uk
Nat Ives / AdAge:
Magazines' Newsstand Struggles Continue, but Not Without Bright Spots  —  An Average of 27,000 iPad Edition Sales Helped Wired Improve ‘Newsstand’ 28%  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Rolling Stone increased newsstand sales nearly 19% in the second half of last year as its story on Gen. Stanley McChrystal …
Discussion: New York Observer and Poynter
Oliver Luft / Press Gazette:
Supreme Court allows reporters to use Twitter  —  Tweeting is allowed from hearings in the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, it was announced yesterday.  —  Supreme Court justices are “content” for journalists, members of the public and legal teams to use “live text based communications” …
Christopher Heine / ClickZ:
Al Jazeera Aims to Harness Twitter Momentum  —  Al Jazeera is Twitter's Promoted Trend advertiser today, as the Qatar-based cable channel attempts to rally support among Americans who want to see it more available in the United States.  On Jan. 28, Twitter users drove traffic …
Nick Bilton / Bits:
A Race Between Digital and Print Magazines  —  This morning I decide to try a little experiment: I opened up my iPad, clicked on the little Wired icon and purchased the magazine's latest digital issue.  After I agreed to fork over $4, it began downloading.  For the next phase of the experiment …
Discussion: eMedia Vitals
Mike Shields / Adweek:
Yap.TV Preps Product That Synchs Tablet and TV Ads  —  Yap.TV, a startup behind a fast-growing iPad application designed to make TV viewing more social, is close to launching an ad product that will be able to synch up tablet ads with live TV ads.  —  The Los Altos, Calif.-based company rolled …
Joshua David Stein / New York Times:
Benjamin Millepied Leaps Into the Spotlight  —  IT was the laugh heard around the Web.  Natalie Portman, glowing in a pink Viktor & Rolf gown, bounded onstage at the Golden Globes last month to accept the award for best actress for her role in the psychological thriller “Black Swan.”
Discussion: Styleite and New York Observer
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Is Jason Kilar Trying to Get Fired?  —  Is Hulu's CEO trying to get pushed out the door?  —  That's the question of the day for the TV and Web video world, prompted by a blog post Jason Kilar published last night.  —  It's a lengthy read about the TV business and where it's headed …
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Henry Blodget / The Wire:
Hulu CEO Jason Kilar Infuriates TV Bosses/Partners With Unapproved …
Discussion: SAI, Gizmodo, MediaPost and Hulu Blog
 
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