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Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:
The Never-Ending Story: News of the World's Andy Coulson Condoned Police Payoffs — Andy Coulson, who edited Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid from 2003 to 2006, condoned payments from members of his staff at the News of the World to Scotland Yard, according to e-mails the company has handed over to the police.
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Kevin Cochrane / Media Week:
Ford pulls News of the World advertising following Milly Dowler allegations — Car marque Ford is to suspend all advertising activity in the News of the World until parent company News International completes a full investigation of the Milly Dowler phone-hacking allegations.
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Nick Davies / Guardian:
Phone hacking: Glenn Mulcaire blames ‘relentless pressure’ by NoW for actions — Private investigator says sorry for hurt and upset caused while under a constant demand for results from newspaper — The private investigator at the centre of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal …
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Jack Shafer / Slate:
Rupert Murdoch can't escape his nemesis, Nick Davies of the Guardian.
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BBC:
Police to meet NoW executives over Milly hacking claims
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Reuters:
DSK accuser sues NY Post for “prostitute” report — (Reuters) - The hotel maid who accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault sued the New York Post and four of its reporters for libel on Tuesday for reporting that she was a prostitute.
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New York Times:
Pakistan's Spies Tied to Slaying of a Journalist — ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Obama administration officials believe that Pakistan's powerful spy agency ordered the killing of a Pakistani journalist who had written scathing reports about the infiltration of militants in the country's military, according to American officials.
Steve Myers / Poynter:
How news sites could improve accountability by tracking story changes, but probably won't — Web publishing has spawned a parlor game for media reporters, partisan bloggers and others who closely follow the news: finding stuff that's been deleted or changed on news sites and figuring out why.
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Future of Journalism, Future Journalism Project and MediaPost
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
What Google+ adds to news — To paraphrase Mark Zuckerberg, it is too soon to know what Google+ is. But I've been trying to imagine how it will and won't be useful to news. You should add rock salt to anything I say, as I thought Google Wave would be an important journalistic tool.
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John Koblin / WWD:
Memo Pad: Bieber's Vanity Fair Cover Bombs... New Men's Style Quarterly... BIEBER BOMBS: Note to magazine editors: Think twice before booking Justin Bieber. — Vanity Fair's February Bieber cover is on track to become the worst-selling issue for the Condé Nast monthly in 12 years …
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Alex Howard / O'Reilly Radar:
Data journalism, data tools, and the newsroom stack — MIT's recent Civic Media Conference and the latest batch of Knight News Challenge winners made one reality crystal clear: as a new era of technology-fueled transparency, innovation and open government dawns, it won't depend on any single CIO or federal program.
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Kunur Patel / AdAge:
When's Prime Time in Mobile? Same as TV — Mobile Web and App Usage Starts to Peak at 7 p.m., Keeps Up Through the Night — Prime time in mobile is shaping up to look a lot like TV: Working stiffs turn to their phones after they've logged off their computers for the day and plopped down on the couch at home.
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Alertbox:
Why WSJ Mobile App Gets ** Customer Reviews … The Wall Street Journal's iPhone app had just 2 stars in Apple's App Store at the time of this writing. Averaged across 68,418 consumer reviews, the rating is not just a reflection of a few irate users. — As a rough estimate …
Florence Pichon / Editors Weblog:
Press releases in journalism: friend or foe? — These days, PR is everything. — Companies, governments, and organizations use press releases to communicate with the media. By releasing their own official version of events, a press release helps companies maintain an image for the general public and …
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Lodsys sues The New York Times Company and five other companies who previously sued Lodsys — Lodsys filed a patent infringement lawsuit today in East Texas against the very six companies who previously filed declaratory judgment actions against Lodsys in other jurisdictions.
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