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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
How the bin Laden Announcement Leaked Out — The terse announcement came just after 9:45 p.m. Sunday from Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director. “POTUS to address the nation tonight at 10:30 PM Eastern Time,” he wrote on Twitter, sharing the same message that had just been transmitted to the White House press corps.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
First Credible Reports Of Bin Laden's Death Spread Like Wildfire On Twitter — @keithurbahn — So I'm told by a reputable person they have killed Osama Bin Laden. Hot damn. — about 4 hours ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®ReplyRetweetFavorite — If the Twitterverse is to be believed …
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Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Twitter Just Had Its CNN Moment — It's a great time to be working at Twitter. — Remember CNN when the Gulf War started in 1990? Before then, it was watched mostly by obsessive news followers — people in finance and government, political science professors, insomniacs.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
News Corp.'s IGN Buys Hearst's UGO In Preparation For Game Site Spin-Off — News Corp., which is getting ready to part with MySpace, is now prepping a move for another one of its big Web properties. — The media conglomerate plans to spin out its IGN.com dudes-and-games site …
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CBS News:
Lara Logan breaks silence on Cairo assault — Talks to Scott Pelley about sexual assault, her rescue and recovery — Lara Logan feared she would die a “torturous death” during a sexual assault and beating she suffered at the hands of a violent mob in Egypt's Tahrir Square.
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Ben Popper / Betabeat:
Village Voice Admits To Spamming Reddit, Begs Forgiveness — The power of a social news site comes principally from its community, so when users feel like their service is being manipulated, they take it very personally. — Two weeks ago a rag tag team of anonymous Redditors discovered …
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
Freemium Revisited: Paying For Content-Based Applications — Last week, Instapaper's founder Marco Arment gave us a remarkable insight into the economics of content applications. For readers who haven't used Instapaper on their iPad or iPhone (preferably on both): this application is an absolute must-have.
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Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:
Time Inc. in iPad Deal With Apple — Time Inc., the country's largest magazine publisher, has reached a deal with Apple Inc. (AAPL) to make all its iPad editions free for print subscribers, marking a break in the impasse between publishers and Apple and lending support to Time's contention …
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Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
Shelby.tv: A Leanback Experience for Personalized Video — Creating personalized recommendations based on a user's social graph could be the holy grail for online video discovery. One startup looking to tackle that issue is Shelby.tv. One of the participants at TechStars' most recent Demo Day …
New York Times:
NBC Expected to Pick Curry as ‘Today’ Co-Host — NBC is about to shuffle the deck of the most profitable news program on television. — The network is expected to hold a news conference Monday morning to announce that Ann Curry will succeed Meredith Vieira as the co-host of “Today,” …
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Tami Luhby / CNNMoney.com:
CNN hires Erin Burnett from CNBC — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — CNN said Friday that it has hired CNBC's Erin Burnett to serve as an anchor and chief business and economics correspondent. — Burnett will anchor a weekday general news program, as well as contribute to CNN's coverage of national …
Sarah Devlin / Mediaite:
Obama Takes On Trump And Birthers At The White House Correspondents Dinner — President Obama was introduced with an intentionally cheesy video package (picture Barney Stinson's video resume from “How I Met Your Mother") set to Rick Derringer's “I Am A Real American” and featuring …
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