Mediagazer: ABC7 reporter Leanne Suter struck by BB gun fire in Fontana (KABC-TV)

3:13 AM ET, August 1, 2011

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ABC7 reporter Leanne Suter struck by BB gun fire in Fontana — FONTANA, Calif. (KABC) — ABC7 Eyewitness News reporter Leanne Suter was injured by a pellet fired from a BB gun while covering a story in Fontana on Saturday. — Suter was struck in the hand. She was taken to a hospital for treatment and will be OK.

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Frank Rich / New York Magazine:

Murdoch Hacked Us Too — The News Corp. scandal already exposed just how thoroughly the company had corrupted Britain. Now it's time to look on this side of the pond. — When I was offered a job as a film critic for the New York Post in 1975, it had just been labeled “a terrible newspaper” …

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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

Old allegations of spying could haunt News Corp. in U.S. — Even though lawsuits have been settled, that wouldn't prevent the government from revisiting such allegations in investigations of possible phone hacking in America. — As British lawmakers and Scotland Yard investigate allegations …

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Erik Wemple:

Daily Caller cheap-shots the New York Times — The Daily Caller has just published a story showing how far it'll reach to allege liberal media bias. The grabby headline: “New York Times reporter advises White House media staff on Twitter.” — Aha, collusion! — Now for the evidence.

Discussion: The Caucus and The Daily Caller

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

How Chartbeat wants to help save the media industry — Newspapers and magazines used to publish content into a kind of void: they knew how many people subscribed, but that was about it — everything else was guesswork based on consumer surveys and other mumbo-jumbo.

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Rachel Sklar / Mediaite:

@BarackObama's Lost Followers: A Tempest In A Twitter Teapot — Yesterday, President Barack Obama concluded his address to the nation by urging Americans to contact their representatives and urge action on a debt ceiling resolution. “If you want to see a bipartisan compromise …

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Michelle Minkoff:

What's it like looking for a programmer-journalist job? — I've spent a lot of time thinking in the last week, as I worked through the final steps of an interview process with the Associated Press. The job hunt has been a long one, and there are some points that I think are worth considering.

Josh Gerstein / The Politico:

Judge: NYT reporter need not identify sources — A New York Times reporter need not testify in court about who gave him details on a top-secret CIA program targeting Iran, a federal judge has ruled. — In May, federal prosecutors subpoenaed Times reporter James Risen to testify …

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John Plunkett / Guardian:

BBC faces new 24-hour news strike on Monday — Stoppage over redundancies will be followed by ‘indefinite’ NUJ work to rule — The BBC is facing another day of disruption to its news programmes on Monday with many of its journalists due to go on a 24-hour strike before beginning an “indefinite” work to rule.

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:

Media groups eye reporters' Twitter fans — Twitter and other social media sites are creating new tensions in traditional newsrooms as broadcasters and newspapers grapple with individual reporters' attempts to use the web to create a personal brand. — The question of who owns …

Arthur S. Brisbane / New York Times:

Why Redacting E-Mails Is a Bad Idea — TWO weeks ago, I raised questions about a New York Times article that warned of a bubble or Ponzi scheme in the development of shale gas energy. Today I want to look closely at the front page shale gas article that appeared one day later …

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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

David Minthorn is the grammar and style expert for the Associated Press — In its modern, digital forms, writing has become something like an untended garden. It's overgrown with text-speak and crawling with invasive species like tweets and dashed-off e-mails. OMG, it's a mess.

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