Mediagazer: WATCH: Brian Williams Tells How He Learned Of Bin Laden's Death (Jack Mirkinson/The Huffington Post)

5:20 AM ET, May 3, 2011

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Patrick Gavin / The Politico:

BOLD BIN LADEN HEADLINES IN NEW YORK — In New York, it's a daily competition to see which paper will have the catchiest front page: The New Post or the New York Daily News. And both papers were put to the test for Monday's paper when news broke late Sunday that Osama bin Laden had been killed.

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

At the NYT, no paywall exemption for Bin Laden — When The New York Times announced its pay meter back in March, publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. also announced that — along with the many, many other pores and passages the paper had built into its gate — the Times had built into its new system …

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Andrea Morabito / Broadcasting & Cable:

CBS News Chief On Bin Laden Reporting: Talks Couric, Gabby Giffords and More — News President tells B&C why the net opted for weekend anchor, Washington team for Sunday coverage — not exiting anchor Couric — CBS News President David Rhodes said his team was careful about everything …

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David W. Dunlap / Lens:

Firefighters Gather for News of Bin Laden — Michael Appleton managed to bridge a decade in a single photograph on Sunday night. — His perfectly distilled picture showed the firefighters of Ladder Company 4 — which lost seven men on 9/11 — perched together on their aerial ladder …

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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:

WATCH: Brian Williams Tells How He Learned Of Bin Laden's Death — Brian Williams revealed to David Letterman on Monday that he was actually told by the White House that Osama Bin Laden had been killed before he went on the air. — In an appearance set to air Monday night …

New York Times:

Turning to Social Networks for News — When the White House abruptly announced an address to the nation by President Obama on Sunday night, CNN anchors spent the better part of an hour previewing the address without actually saying what it was about. — “I have my own gut instincts on what it might be …

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Jenna Wortham / Bits:
Online, an Urge to Be a Part of the Bin Laden News

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Julie Moos / Poynter:
Newspaper front pages capture elation, relief that Osama bin Laden was captured, killed

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Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
The New York Times Adjusts Printing on The Fly

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Jim Romenesko / Poynter:
NYT: No honorific for Bin Laden

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Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:
Here's the guy who unwittingly live-tweeted the raid on Bin Laden

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Twitter Does Not Supplant Other Media, It Amplifies It

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Emily Bell:

Real time, All the time: Why every news organisation has to be live — Twitter does not have many users in Abbottabad in Pakistan, where Facebook is apparently more the social platform of choice. But it has enough to break the first sounds of gunfire in the fight which was to eventually lead to the death of Osama bin Laden.

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Dan Frosch / New York Times:

Enforcing Copyrights Online, for a Profit — DENVER — When Brian Hill, a 20-year-old blogger from North Carolina, posted on his Web site last December a photograph of an airport security officer conducting a pat-down, a legal battle was the last thing he imagined.

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

Claim: Krugman is top prognosticator; Cal Thomas is the worst — Romenesko Misc. — A Hamilton College class and their public policy professor analyzed the predicts of 26 pundits — including Sunday morning TV talkers — and used a scale of 1 to 5 to rate their accuracy.

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Ben Popper / Betabeat:

YouTube Pays Two New Yorkers to Become the Next Video Stars — For Franchesca Ramsey is started with hair, her dreads, which people on the street would sometimes reach out and touch without asking. “I got a new iMac and it had a camera, so I decided to try it out and just talk about whatever came to mind,” says Ramsey.

Matt McLernon / YouTube Blog:
Introducing the stars of the future - on YouTube today

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Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Coming soon to a theater near you: The New York Times — The New York Times just announced a new initiative: The paper is teaming up with the theater network Emerging Pictures to produce “Times in Cinema,” a branded preshow tailored for independent theatrical venues.

Discussion: The New York Times Company and FishbowlNY

David Kaplan / paidContent:

New York Magazine E-Newsletter To Aggregate Weekly Deals — New York magazine is about to launch a weekly “deals” e-newsletter and online adjunct, but instead of matching offers play to advertisers, it will aggregate “the best of the best” of other e-commerce sites' picks.

Discussion: Folio, MediaPost and FishbowlNY

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

Exclusive: Yahoo Nabs Jai Singh From AOL's HuffPo as Editor-in-Chief — According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo has grabbed one of Huffington Post's top editors, Jai Singh, to become its editor-in chief. — The move is a big one in the online editorial arena.

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Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:

If A Rumor Turns Out To Be True, Is It News? — I learned long ago not to feed the trolls — not even when they happen to be columnists in prominent trade publications like AdAge — but this guy seems so angry about my post calling Twitter the new CNN that I figured a quick reply was in order.

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