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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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The Atlantic Wire, Media & Entertainment, Forbes.com, Mediaite, Gawker, Runnin' Scared, Gothamist, FishbowlNY, Poynter, New York Magazine, The Daily Beast, Reuters, Boing Boing and Mogulite
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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Press Gazette, Guardian, Guardian and The New Yorker Blog
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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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The Wire, Adweek, Reuters, themediablog.typepad.com, The Atlantic Wire, The First Post and Guardian
Georgina Prodhan / Reuters:
New hacking allegation piles pressure on Murdoch — (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron led a chorus of condemnation on Tuesday over allegations a top-selling British newspaper from Rupert Murdoch's global media empire hacked the voicemail of a missing schoolgirl who was later found murdered.
BBC:
Police to meet NoW executives over Milly hacking claims
Police to meet NoW executives over Milly hacking claims
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Media & Entertainment, BBC, Guardian, The Atlantic Wire, CJR, Adweek, Media Matters for America, Press Gazette, Poynter, Telegraph, National Review, The Wall Blog, CNET News, This Is London, Guardian, Sky News, Press Association, New York Times, Daily Express, paidContent, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, ShortFormBlog, Mashable!, @sarahlellison, New York Magazine, The Wire, On Media's Blog, Boing Boing, Mediaite, George Brock, The Lede, http://www.Stinkyjournalism …, @rafat, Guardian, the Econsultancy blog, Editor's Blog, Mirror.co.uk, Sky News, Daily Mail, Crikey, The First Post, The Independent, New York Times, FleetStreetBlues and Gawker
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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The Not-So Private Parts, Future of Journalism, eMedia Vitals, ReadWriteWeb and Search Engine Land
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.
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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GalleyCat, The Huffington Post, The Atlantic Wire and Fashionista
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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MediaPost and Future Journalism Project
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
‘Vogue’ Reigns on Newsstand — It's no secret that magazines' newsstand sales have been dismal. But Anna Wintour's Vogue has been bucking the trend, and not by a little. — For the first five months of the year, newsstand sales for the Condé Nast title have averaged 370,000 …
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The Wire and FishbowlNY
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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MediaShift Idea Lab
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Netflix to launch service in Latin America — Netflix, the streaming video service based in Los Gatos, California is going to launch its service in 43 countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean later this year. Netflix had launched the service in Canada last year and it is part of company's plans to expand internationally.
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paidContent, Home Media Magazine, PR Newswire, The Official Netflix Blog, MediaPost, rbr.com, CNET News, The Wrap, Media Decoder, Broadcasting & Cable, AllThingsD, Engadget, PC Magazine, Techland, Company Town, Softpedia News, ZDNet, Online Video News, Electronista and Globe and Mail, more at Techmeme »
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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Lost Remote
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Why newspapers can't stop the presses — With newspaper ad sales falling at an unexpectedly abrupt rate, many publishers at mid-year were laying off staff, requiring unpaid furloughs, consolidating plants and taking other measures to buttress their bottom lines.
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Poynter and Editors Weblog
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
New York Times iPad app doesn't work after update, subscribers complain — The trouble with charging to deliver news via a mobile app is that subscribers get angry when the technology doesn't work. That seems to be the case for many users of the New York Times' iPad app, which was updated Friday.
Brett Pulley / Bloomberg:
Sun Valley Moguls Shift From Acquisitions to Sales to Refine Media Models — Media executives gather at Allen & Co.'s Sun Valley conference this week looking to shed assets such as the Hulu LLC video website and G4 game channel amid a declining global stock market and slowing economic growth.
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The Wire
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Big Media Brace for Clouds As They Meet in Sun Valley
Big Media Brace for Clouds As They Meet in Sun Valley
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Company Town