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Steve Myers / Poynter:
Why the man who tweeted Osama bin Laden raid is a citizen journalist — When I wrote earlier this week about how quickly people around the world learned that Sohaib Athar had “live tweeted” the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, I thought carefully before calling him a citizen journalist.
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The Atlantic Wire, AndyDickinson.net, The Snitch, The Lede, CNET News, Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog, The 6th Floor, loose wire blog, MediaMemo and Soup
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Rem Rieder / American Journalism Review:
Passing on Rumors — Why it's a bad idea to glorify the Rumsfeld aide who “broke” the news of bin Laden's death on Twitter. Posted: Wed, May 4, 2011 — Rem Rieder (rrieder@ajr.umd.edu) is AJR's editor and senior vice president. — “Hot Damn!” blared the New York Observer headline.
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Poynter, Mediaite, The Daily Beast and Broadcasting & Cable
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Reuters Defends Publishing Bin Laden Compound Photos — NEW YORK — The White House isnât releasing photos of Osama bin Ladenâs dead body, but that didnât stop Reuters from publishing several gruesome photos Wednesday showing the aftermath of the U.S. raid on bin Ladenâs compound …
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The Atlantic Wire, Reuters, The AfPak Channel and Yahoo! News
MG Siegler / parislemon:
On Bin Laden Killing Tech Blogging — The information in the image above is not surprising at all. But still pathetic. — Imagine that, you write 35 200-word posts featuring the words “Bin Laden” in the headline and they pull in traffic on the day it's one of the most searched terms ever.
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@fredericl, @sg and broadstuff, more at Techmeme »
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
NY Daily News Got Tip of Bin Laden Death Hours Early Tabloid heard from FDNY source, editor says
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Journalism.org, The Big Picture, Media Matters for America, Forbes.com, Mediaite, The Atlantic Wire, The Wire, New York Times, News Desk, Gawker, The Daily Beast, Storyful, bookforum.com, WWD Media Headlines, The Book Bench, Media News, Runnin' Scared, Press Gazette, Random Pixels and Loose Talk, On Media's Blog, FishbowlNY and New York Magazine
Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
Telegraph Goes With Apple Subs For Newspaper-Like iPad Edition — The Telegraph, with its long-awaited version-two iPad app, out today, is the latest news publisher to try reasserting a paid news economy for its newspaper in digital tablet form. — The publisher's upgraded app …
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Telegraph, Press Gazette, App Advice, Journalism.co.uk, One Man & His Blog, Garcia Media, MacStories and The Next Web
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Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:
Hearst Strikes Deal with Apple on iPad Subscriptions — In a big win for Apple Inc., magazine publisher Hearst Corp. has agreed to sell subscriptions to the iPad editions of a range of its publications through iTunes, beginning with three of its popular magazines, the publisher said.
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Adweek, WWD Media Headlines, Guardian, ReadWriteWeb, eBookNewser, TUAW, MacStories, FishbowlNY, MediaPost, Ubergizmo, AdExchanger.com, App Advice, 9 to 5 Mac, IntoMobile, AppleInsider, Poynter, MacRumors, AdAge, CrunchGear, paidContent, VentureBeat, Electronista, everythingiCafe, Engadget, Gizmodo and The Next Web
Nat Ives / AdAge:
Hearst Makes Deal to Sell Subscriptions on iPad, But Will Conde Nast Deliver First? — Rumors Percolate That iPad Subs Are Imminent at Conde Nast — Hearst Corp.'s new deal with Apple will make subscriptions available for iPad editions of Esquire, Popular Mechanics and O …
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Guardian, eMedia Vitals, NetNewsCheck Latest and Editors Weblog
Bill Keller / New York Times:
The Inner Lives of Wartime Photographers — This has been a grievous season for the tight-knit tribe of combat photographers. For The Times, the sorrow began last October, when a land mine exploded under Joao Silva while he was shooting pictures of an American patrol near Kandahar …
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Forbes.com
One Reporter's Notebook:
Reporting from analytics: Example — I've written before on writing from analytics, but what happened today was just such a good example, I think it's worth sharing. Briefly: checking out my site analytics, and taking clues from them led me to an unreported homicide. — Here's the step-by-step.
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Nieman Journalism Lab
Twitter Blog:
Watching Together: Twitter and TV — TV and Twitter have a special connection. Broadcasters are eager to provide new ways to drive viewer engagement. Twitter provides a forum for real-time context and commentary that turns watchers into participants. — Over the past few years …
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Softpedia News, WebProNews and On The Air
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Judy McGrath Leaving MTV Networks; The Memo — Viacom (NYSE: VIA) and Judy McGrath are announcing this morning that the longtime head of MTV Networks has resigned. The decision is McGrath's—and, after making it through some very tough sledding, she leaves MTVN at the top of its game.
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The Wrap, Adweek, Multichannel, rbr.com, Broadcasting & Cable, Mogulite, PR Newswire and @kenli729
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon to Publish New Line of Romances — Amazon.com Inc. is expanding its fast-growing publishing business with a new line of romance books, its latest quest for original content to distinguish its print and digital bookselling services. — The imprint, Montlake Romance, will publish digital …
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Digital Trends and GeekWire
David Kravets / Threat Level:
CNET Accused of Copyright Infringement for Distributing LimeWire — CBS Interactive, the owner of CNET, is being sued for facilitating “massive copyright infringement” for distributing the LimeWire software, a file sharing service a federal judge ruled illegal last year.
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Ars Technica, Hollywood Reporter, paidContent, ZDNet, TorrentFreak, Techdirt and The Consumerist, more at Techmeme »
The Steve Rubel Stream:
As Curators Proliferate, Media Brands Face Loyalty Crisis — Summary: — Suddenly media brands are facing increased competition from an array of upstart curators that are growing in popularity — There are three underlying trends that are driving their rapid rise: mobile devices, remixing technologies and, arguably, paywalls
Thanks:steverubel
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
News Corp. Revenue, Earnings Miss; MySpace Still Burning Money — A first look at News Corp.'s March quarter earnings: Revenues of $8.26 billion and adjusted earnings of $0.26 per share. Analysts were looking for revenue of $8.42 billion and earnings of $0.27 per share.
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FishbowlNY, ZDNet, App Advice, RCR Unplugged, paidContent:UK, Engadget, USA Today, Adweek, Home Media Magazine, 9 to 5 Mac, MacStories, paidContent and Mogulite, more at Techmeme »
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Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The newsonomics of the new ABCs of journalism — Editor's Note: Each week, Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of news for the Lab. — This week brought us the long-worked-on new counting metrics for American daily newspaper journalism.
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