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BBC:
News of the World to admit phone hacking liability — Actress Sienna Miller is currently taking legal action against the News of the World — The owner of the News of the World is to admit liability in a number of cases brought against the paper for alleged phone hacking.
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Yahoo! News, The Huffington Post, Guardian, Adweek, New York Magazine, The Wire and Gawker
Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
As Breaking News Fades, Ratings Fall at CNN — In a repetition of a pattern that has become familiar for CNN, the surge of interest in breaking news that helped drive up its audiences has faded - and so have CNN's ratings. — The cable news network's prime-time lineup has not capitalized …
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TVNewser, Poynter, TVWeek.com and Inside Cable News
Max Fisher / The Atlantic Online:
Atlantic Reporter Captured in Libya — Clare Morgana Gillis and three other journalists have been taken into custody — Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi captured four journalists on Tuesday at around 1 p.m. local time a few miles outside of Brega, which is currently under government control.
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Yahoo! News, The Daily Beast, FishbowlNY, FishbowlDC, New York Magazine and The Huffington Post
Rob Pegoraro:
Departure … This entry was posted in Journalism, Occupational hazards, Work and tagged journalism, newspaper, newsroom, rob pegoraro, tech journalism, washington post by robpegoraro. Bookmark the permalink.
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Poynter, On Media's Blog and FishbowlDC
Jacques Hebert / YouTube Blog:
YouTube is going LIVE — With over 2 billion views a day, it's easy to think about YouTube as a place to watch videos recorded in the past. But you've told us you want more - and that includes events taking place right now. In response, we've live streamed a number of popular concerts …
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Lost Remote, VentureBeat, Mashable!, Digits, ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM, TechCrunch, MacStories, The Wrap, CNET News, Epicenter, WebProNews, Pocket-lint and Gizmodo, more at Techmeme »
The Independent:
Kelvin MacKenzie: 'I'd shut all the journalism colleges down' — There should only be one way into newspapers, reckons ex-Sun editor - and that's the old-school route — Print journalism is not a profession. It's a job, a knack, a talent. You don't need a diploma …
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Wannabe Hacks, George Brock, Guardian, blogs.journalism.co.uk, Editor's Blog, Journalism.co.uk, Jon Slattery and Editors Weblog
Suzi Parker / Poynter:
Seeing journalism through the eyes of editor and columnist Lady Gaga — Lady Gaga has her paws in many projects - makeup endorsements, LGBT activism, a perfume deal and even a bracelet for sale that aids Japanese earthquake victims. — But now the pop phenomenon appears to be focused on journalism.
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Editors Weblog
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Kat Stoeffel / New York Observer:
Lady Gaga, Editor: Befuddling Pop Star to Guest Edit ‘Metro’
Lady Gaga, Editor: Befuddling Pop Star to Guest Edit ‘Metro’
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The Wire, Runnin' Scared, FishbowlNY, Media News International, Gothamist, Mediaite and Gawker
David Kaplan / paidContent:
@ AADigital: Arianna: Paywalls Only Work For Special Content, ‘Weird Porn’ — Life is pretty good at AOL (NYSE: AOL) these days, including the use of three “resting rooms” that the newsroom has dubbed “NapQuest,” Arianna Huffington told AdAge's Ed Lee at the close of the AdAge Digital conference.
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AdAge, mediabistro.com and eMedia Vitals
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Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Google News founder Krishna Bharat: For news consumers, “the whole experience is what counts” — Krishna Bharat founded Google News in 2002, partly in response to the US-centric news coverage served up by the American media after 9/11. Since then, the project has had its ups and downs …
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Poynter and NetNewsCheck Latest
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Bret Baier: The Next Generation Of Fox News Anchor … If the only thing you know about Bret Baier is that he's a Fox News anchor, the moment that sticks in your mind would be his interview a year ago with President Obama. — It took place in the Blue Room of the White House …
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The Wire, Poynter, TVNewser, Mediaite and Inside Cable News
Washington Post:
Five myths about the future of journalism — There are few things journalists like to discuss more than, well, themselves and the long-term prospects for their industry. How long will print newspapers survive? Are news aggregation sites the future? Or are online paywalls …
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
California Watch finds a new consumer group for its “On Shaky Ground” investigation: kids — This morning, California Watch launched a major series on the seismic safety of California's public schools. Education reporter Corey Johnson and fellow investigators at the outfit spent 19 months reporting …
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California Watch
Ragnhild Kjetland / Bloomberg:
News Corp.'s German Pay TV Will Offer Programs on Mobile Phones, Computers — Sky Deutschland AG (SKYD), the German pay- TV operator controlled by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., is making its programs available on mobile phones and laptop computers in a bid to add subscribers in Europe's biggest TV market.
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
16 Newsweek Employees Taking Buyout — Response to offer higher than expected; could forestall future layoffs — Newsweek has started to settle in after its merger with The Daily Beast and redesign by Tina Brown, but another batch of employees is heading for the door anyway.
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Mediaite
Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:
About.com Gets an Infusion — With Rivals Surging, New York Times Co. Invests in Its Network of How-To Sites — New York Times Co.'s About.com, the network of how-to websites that has generated reliable profits for its parent during a bruising period, is getting a needed investment.
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NYConvergence.com, more at Techmeme »