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Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
Gitlin: Media coverage of Occupy Wall Street is predictably lazy, but likely to improve — Ask Todd Gitlin what stands out about the media's coverage of Occupy Wall Street, and he'll tell you: “Its predictability. The laziness. The knee-jerk preconceptions.”
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The New York Observer, Media Matters for America, Forbes and Urban Word of the Day
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Helen Kennedy / NY Daily News:
Occupy Wall Street protesters plan ‘Millionaires March’ to Rupert Murdoch's, tycoons' NYC homes — The Occupy Wall Street protesters are planning to get in the face of some of New York's richest tycoons on Tuesday. — A “Millionaires March” will visit the homes - or, more realistically …
Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
Phone hacking: Les Hinton to give committee evidence via video link — The former executive chairman of News International is to appear before the culture, media and sport select committee via video link later this month — Former executive chairman of News International Les Hinton giving evidence to the committee in 2007
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Adweek, On Media's Blog, The Huffington Post, Guardian, FishbowlNY and Journalism.co.uk
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Phone hacking: Glenn Mulcaire wants ‘persecution’ by victims to stop — Private investigator at the centre of News of the World scandal believes victims have nothing to gain from suing him — The private investigator at the centre of the phone-hacking scandal has written to the alleged victims …
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
100 former News of the World staff face sack — News International appears to have sacked around 100 former News of the World staff - those who did not take voluntary redundancy and who have not found other jobs in the company. — When the News of the World closure was announced three months ago …
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Guardian, The Huffington Post and Media Diary
David Lieberman / Deadline.com:
News Corp Fires Back At Attacks On Board Candidates And Compensation
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Poynter, Media Decoder and Bloomberg
Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
WSJ Europe Publisher Quits Over Possible Perceived Impropriety — The publisher of News Corp.'s Wall Street Journal Europe newspaper resigned over what he called a possible perception of impropriety. — Andrew Langhoff, who ran the newspaper's business since January 2009 …
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Dow Jones Newswires, Reuters and Talking Biz News
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Updated: WSJ Europe Chief Langhoff Resigns Over Ethical Concerns
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Steve Myers / Poynter:
Idaho newspaper publishes prominent fact-check of senator's press release — The Times-News of Twin Falls, Idaho ran a full-page illustration on its Sunday opinion section front that fact-checked, point-by-point, a press release from Republican Senator Mike Crapo.
Discussion:
Future of Journalism, magicvalley.com and Charles Apple
Peter Schworm / Boston Globe:
Globe editors explain decision to name Bulger tipster — Boston Globe editors said yesterday that they decided to identify the woman whose tip led to the capture of fugitive gangster James “Whitey” Bulger after concluding that the public interest served by publishing the full story …
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Media Nation, The Huffington Post, LA Observed, Boston Herald, Poynter, Boston Herald and Universal Hub
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Richard Horgan / FishbowlLA:
Boston Globe Takes Heat for Blowing ‘Whitey’ Bulger Informant's Cover*
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L.A. NOW, LAist and newsfeed.time.com
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.
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Adweek, Poynter, Company Town and FishbowlNY
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Night owls read news on tablets, as mobile overtakes computer for at-home browsing — A new report from comScore shows nearly three out of five tablet owners (58 percent) consume news on their tablets at least occasionally. Twenty-two percent do so almost daily.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
NYTimes Sues The Federal Government For Refusing To Reveal Its Secret Interpretation Of The PATRIOT Act — We've been covering for a while now how Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall have been very concerned over the secret interpretation the feds have of one piece of the PATRIOT Act.
Discussion:
On Media's Blog and The Huffington Post
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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TVWeek.com, Softpedia News, Fast Company, Business Insider, TUAW and MacRumors
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The Huffington Post:
Announcing HuffPost for Facebook: The Future of Social News — HuffPost has a long history of deep and innovative integration with Facebook. In 2009 we launched HuffPost Social News, which let Facebook users who are HuffPost fans share more easily with each other and follow their friends' activity across the site.
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Who Broke the Speaking Rules at the New York Times? — New York Times ethics cop Phil Corbett just sent out the following memo to the newsroom, reminding them about the paper's rules for paid speaking engagements. (Thomas Friedman, among others, has had trouble with this in the past.)
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.
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Paywalls Spread To College Newspapers — Students work for their college newspapers for all sorts of reasons—and while college papers are sheltered from the harsh realities facing national and local newspapers in many ways, it's probably never too early for a crash course in revenue models.
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Knight Foundation
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Here Comes Another Cloud: Hollywood Hopes “UltraViolet” Will Save DVDs — Say 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” …
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GigaOM and PC Magazine, more at Techmeme »
Jonathan Frost / Wannabe Hacks:
Journalists should spend 10% of their time on social media — Image courtesy of 'Pong. — At last week's news:rewired conference, I attended a session about Newsroom Architecture. The topics discussed were quite far-reaching, and in her presentation, Helje Solberg …
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