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Marco.org:
What Safari's Reading List means for Instapaper — Before today, I knew that a reading-list feature similar to Instapaper's core bookmark-saving purpose was being added to Safari in Lion, and wrote a big blog post about its potential impact on Instapaper. — I speculated that they wouldn't add …
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Nieman Journalism Lab:
Newsstand, Reader, iCloud: 3 takeaways for the news business from today's Apple announcement — Today's new-product announcement at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference was, overall, a doozy. In addition to introducing the long-awaited OS X Lion and announcing noteworthy Twitter integration …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Apple Flatters Instapaper. Did It Kill It?
Apple Flatters Instapaper. Did It Kill It?
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@marcoarment, TechCrunch, GigaOM, Pocket-lint, Future of Journalism, Betabeat and paidContent
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Online, Beck Will Impose a Fee Model — Glenn Beck is planning to charge his fans a monthly subscription for his daily talk show online starting this summer, as he makes the move from being a Fox News host to the owner of his own Internet network. — On Tuesday, Mr. Beck will announce …
Chris Cuomo / ABCNEWS:
Rep. Anthony Weiner: ‘The Picture Was of Me and I Sent It’ — Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York said today he has engaged in “several inappropriate” electronic relationships with six women over three years, and that he has publicly lied about a photo of himself sent over Twitter to a college student in Seattle over a week ago.
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New York Times:
A Conservative Blogger Looks for Legitimacy — When Meagan Broussard asked one of her friends what she should do about an intimate online relationship she had been having with Representative Anthony D. Weiner, the friend, a Republican, told her to go to Andrew Breitbart.
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Why newspaper paywalls are still a bad idea — Media industry research shows that more and more newspapers are implementing paywalls, possibly inspired by the launch of a “metered” wall at the New York Times earlier this year. Frederic Filloux argues in a blog post at The Monday Note …
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Emalykhina / Adweek:
Media Buyers Don't Know Jack About Jill — Jill Abramson's appointment as executive editor of The New York Times last week had journalistic circles in a tizzy. Media obsessives pondered the import of the paper naming its first woman editor, dug in to her views on the paper's digital future …
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Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
When crime victims tweet, new and old dilemmas meet for news organizations — Soon after a young woman in Tampa, Fla., was allegedly raped, she tweeted about the crime. “6'2 black man w scruffy beard blue shirt tan shorts driving commercial truck ... raped me,” she tweeted. “Glad im alive.”
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
FT Bypasses Apple's iTunes, Launches HTML5 Web App (Free Access First Week) — The Financial Times would rather not have Apple take a 30 percent cut of in-app subscriptions for its iOS publications, and has launched a HTML5 Web app that enables readers to access content across tablets and smartphones.
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Reporters Committee News:
Reporters Committee launches new Digital Journalist's Legal Guide — Washington, D.C. — An interactive reference to the myriad legal issues specifically facing reporters who are working online has joined the library of free, online media law guides available on the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press website.
Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
Weeks after deadly tornado, a whirlwind of support for the Joplin Globe — For journalists at the Joplin Globe, junk food has gone a long way these past few weeks. — For one thing, a steady stream of snacks has helped sustain newsroom staffers through heaps of reporting that must seem …
Amir Efrati / Digits:
Online Ads: Where 1,240 Companies Fit In — Online advertising is a remarkably complex field. Terence Kawaja has a new way for potential investors to visualize it. — The market involves hundreds of small and large companies that help advertisers reach consumers and help website publishers …
Cory Bergman / Lost Remote:
Live TV, YouTube, Bing coming to Xbox Live — Updated: Xbox took another big step today in its quest to become the social TV hub of your living room. Xbox Live's Marc Whitten announced a bevy of new features at E3 for Kinect-enabled systems. “We believe TV is more amazing when you're the controller …
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Movie & TV streams still missing from Apple's iCloud — Here's one feature you won't find in Apple's new iCloud service: video syncing. The cloud-based media storage service introduced at Apple's WWDC conference in San Francisco on Monday offers the ability to sync your personal music library …
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The Atlantic Wire:
When Gay Talese Met Frank Sinatra's ‘Hairpiece Lady’ — On Friday The Atlantic Wire contacted Gay Talese regarding Barbara Sinatra's interview with Andrew Goldman in The New York Times Magazine, in which she said Talese's account of an “inconspicuous little gray-haired lady” …
Jillian C. York / Global Voices:
Syria: ‘Gay Girl in Damascus’ Seized — This post is part of our special coverage Syria Protests 2011. — Amina Arraf has seen a quick rise to fame. Blogging pseudonymously, as Amina Abdullah, she writes about politics, the recent uprising, and being a lesbian in Syria.
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A Gay Girl in Damascus, Guardian, The Daily What and Gawker