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8:40 AM ET, October 11, 2011

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Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Link by Link: Pastebin Helps Occupy Wall Street Spread the Word  —  A STRENGTH of the Occupy Wall Street protest movement has been its flexible organization and nondoctrinaire agenda: “The one thing we all have in common is that we are the 99 percent that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1 percent.”
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Geraldo Greeted By Occupy Wall Street Protestors Chanting ‘Fox News Lies’  —  Fox News weekend host Geraldo Rivera went to Zucotti Park this weekend toreport on the Occupy Wall Street protest movement that has been going on for a number weeks and host his eponymous show remotely.
Deggans / St. Petersburg Times:   Occupy Wall Street coverage reveals some financial journalists still mired in Wall Street culture
Jay Rosen / Quote and Comment:
FED UP WITH WEAK REPORTING ON OCCUPY WALL STREET, THIS GUY WENT DOWN THERE AND DID THE JOB HIMSELF
Discussion: The New York Observer
David Carr / New York Times:
A Protest's Ink-Stained Fingers
Guardian:
An experiment in opening up the Guardian's news coverage  —  Help shape the Guardian's news coverage by talking to editors and reporters about upcoming stories as we work on them  —  We often report big breaking stories as they happen, but have you ever wondered what stories we're working on - and what's about to drop?
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Memo to newspapers: Let your readers inside the wall  —  The Guardian, the U.K. newspaper that has been one of the biggest mainstream-media champions of a “digital first” approach and a proponent of “crowdsourcing” the news, says it's now going to experiment with allowing readers to help decide what news to cover.
Discussion: Editors Weblog
MediaMonkey / Guardian:
Telegraph correspondent launches Twitter offensive | Media Monkey
Discussion: @benfenton
James Hibberd / Inside TV:
Discovery orders Steve Jobs documentary with ‘Mythbusters’ hosts — EXCLUSIVE  —  Discovery has ordered a documentary on the life of the late Steve Jobs, with the Mythbusters duo on board to host.  The network is teaming with NBC's Peacock Productions for iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World, a one-hour special.
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Bloomberg:   Jobs's Death Leaves Hollywood Without Tech Envoy
Gianna Caserta / WALB-TV:
Political blog buys The Albany Journal  —  A political blog is buying an Albany newspaper.  —  In what appears to be a first of its kind move, Knighton Media, Inc. signed a contract to purchase the community-based paper The Albany Journal.  —  Knighton is a company formed to run the Albany political blog called Laws-N-Sausages.
Felix Salmon:
How the New Yorker monetizes old content  —  I love the way that The New Yorker is using the iPad to construct a whole new revenue stream from its back issues.  —  It started* with “At the Ballpark”, an iPad-only collection of New Yorker baseball writing from 1929 to 2011 …
Discussion: eMedia Vitals and bookforum.com
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Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:
Ofcom dismisses PLO complaint against Al Jazeera English  —  Complaint made by negotiator on behalf of Palestinian Liberation Authority not upheld by regulator, which rules Al Jazeera English programmes were fair and in the public interest  —  Complaint against Al Jazeera's English-language channel …
Discussion: Guardian and Journalism.co.uk
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Here Comes Another Cloud: Hollywood Hopes “UltraViolet” Will Save DVDs  —  Say for this for UltraViolet: It actually launched.  —  When word first got out that most of Hollywood and the tech industry was working on a “Giant Media DRM Cloud Coalition Featuring Everyone Except Apple and Disney” …
Ryan Chittum / CJR:
The Shorter-Form Journal  —  The number of long stories has plunged under Murdoch  —  Story length in journalism by itself doesn't mean much.  We read too many news stories that are just too damned long.  —  But, on the other hand, without going long, it's hard to achieve greatness.
Discussion: Poynter
Richard Horgan / FishbowlLA:
Boston Globe Takes Heat for Blowing ‘Whitey’ Bulger Informant's Cover*  —  For anyone who followed the unlikely capture of James “Whitey” Bulger in Santa Monica, Sunday's front page Boston Globe feature article was a must-read, full of new details about the gangster's life on the lam.
Discussion: L.A. NOW, LAist and newsfeed.time.com
Ali Gharib / ThinkProgress:
Conservative Writer Admits ‘Infiltrating’ 99 Percent Movement To ‘Mock And Undermine’ It  —  Museum guards warn off demonstrators from entrance (AP)  —  An assistant editor with a right-wing magazine admitted in a column Saturday evening to posing as part of the 99 Percent Movement in D.C. “in order to mock and undermine” it.
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Pepper-sprayed provocateur Patrick Howley: Does he really exist?
Steve Yelvington / Yelvington's Blog:
Getting ‘digital first’ right in the ‘newsroom’  —  “Digital First!” is a great battle cry, and thank you, John Paton, for giving it to us all.  It is pure leadership, a flag planted forward declaring that newspapers now see print as the past and digital as the present and future.
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
For Magazines, the Recession Is Back  —  After a strong first half of 2011, ad spending in magazines fell back on its face in the third quarter, according to official tallies by the Publishers Information Bureau.  Total advertising pages for the industry fell 5.6% in the third quarter versus …
Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:
Networks Reportedly Go To Extremes For Amanda Knox Interview  —  Network producers have reportedly resorted to babysitting Amanda Knox's half-sisters in an attempt to score exclusive interviews with now-freed American exchange student, according to the New York Post.
David Pakman:
The media knowledge gap  —  During a recent publicity trip to Los Angeles, I confirmed that independent non-corporate media is alive and well in the United States ... kind of.  My visits to The Young Turks, several KPFK/Pacifica radio shows and other local Los Angeles media brought in more website traffic …
Discussion: FishbowlLA
Pamela Parker / Search Engine Land:
Google's Blog Strategist and Manager, Karen Wickre, Departs After Nine Years  —  In an announcement fittingly posted on her own blog, Karen Wickre, Google's senior manager of global communications & public affairs, says she has left the company.  Wickre launched and masterminded …
Discussion: KVOX
Julie Moos / Poynter:
Keller on public editors: ‘Even proctology has its good results’  —  In an hourlong-plus conversation with Texas Tribune's Evan Smith, Bill Keller acknowledged he's still making the transition to former New York Times executive editor: … Keller, who reads the paper in print and on his iPad …
James Robinson / Guardian:
News International donates £2.8m to charity from final edition of News of the World  —  News of the World's final edition - which sold 3.8m - will benefit charities including Barnardo's and Forces Children's Trust  —  News International will donate £2.8m from the sale …
 
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