Mediagazer: How Drudge “stays on top”? Pandering on race, right-wing paranoia (Will Bunch/Philly.com)

3:25 PM ET, May 17, 2011

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Will Bunch / Philly.com:

How Drudge “stays on top”? Pandering on race, right-wing paranoia — It's been a noteworthy springtime for news here in my hometown of Philadelphia — a mayoral election, a fast start for the Phillies while the Flyers imploded in the NHL playoffs, the gruesome murder of a 9-year-old girl.

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

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Wall Street Journal:

French Watchdog Reins In Media Coverage of IMF Chief — PARIS—France's broadcasting watchdog called Tuesday on the country's television channels to be extremely cautious in showing footage of International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn in handcuffs, a practice that contravenes French law.

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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Al-Jazeera journalist has vanished — Al-Jazeera English journalist Dorothy Parvaz has been disappeared. Authorities in both Syria and Iran now deny that she is being held in their countries. — It is known that Parvaz, pictured here, flew from Doha to Damascus on assignment for the network, landing on 29 April.

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Shea Bennett / AllTwitter:

Updated AP Stylebook Adds Geolocation, Link Shortener, Unfollow And Other Twitter Terms — The Associated Press Stylebook, aka “the journalist's bible”, have released their 2011 guide and have included some new social media terms, including Twitter-friendly words and phrases such as geolocation, stream, link Shortener and unfollow.

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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

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Reuters:

Tech Summit Q&A, day 1: AOL's Tim Armstrong, Arianna Huffington — AOL CEO Tim Armstrong and Editor in Chief of The Huffington Post Arianna Huffington joined us Monday for the premiere of the 2011 Reuters Global Technology Summit. — Here's a clip of Tim Armstrong answering why he thinks …

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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
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Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:

Glamour Editor Reflects on Early Days of iPad Publishing — The June issue of Glamour hit the App Store Monday morning, as the tenth issue the magazine has specially formatted for the iPad and the first available via digital subscription. — The issue [iTunes link], replete with engaging …

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Elissa Lerner / The Book Bench:

Biblion Roars to Life on the iPad — “The ‘world of tomorrow’ is here today,” according to a press release unveiling the new iPad app from the New York Public Library. The app, “Biblion: the Boundless Library,” is part of the “Find the Future” Centennial celebration, and lives up to its extraordinarily clever name.

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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

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virtualeconomics:

A citizen journalism model that really breaks news? — London-based citizen journalism start-up Blottr, which destealthed towards the end of February with a Techrunch write-up and recently announced a round of angel funding, led the news agenda for much of Monday by breaking the day's major UK news story.

INMA:

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New York Observer:

‘The New York Observer’ Hires Deputy Editor, Tech and Art Reporters — The New York Observer editor Elizabeth Spiers announced three new hires today. Brian Gallagher will be the paper's deputy editor and Nitasha Tiku and Michael Miller will be staff writers, covering technology and the arts, respectively.

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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

Beyond TV, Marketers Look to ‘Earn’ Love for Video Ads — With Online Playing a Bigger Role in Today's Campaigns, Social-Sharing Becomes Coveted Metric for Web Efforts — Call it the Old Spice effect. A year after “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like” garnered more than 100 million views …