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Nick Davies / Guardian:
Wall Street Journal circulation scam claims senior Murdoch executive — Andrew Langhoff resigns as European publishing chief after exposure of secret channels of cash to help boost sales figures — One of Rupert Murdoch's most senior European executives has resigned following Guardian inquiries …
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Media Decoder, The New York Observer, The New Republic, The Huffington Post, The Wrap and Charlie's Diary
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Spitzer wants a petition to dump Geithner; has no plans for another TV show — Azi Paybarah. — Standing before a white lectern (and in front of a vintage advertisement for “hosiery and underwear") former governor and former CNN talk-show host Eliot Spitzer told a crowded room …
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
ProPublica's Pulitzer winners: Media did not understand the banking crisis — ProPublica — Following the Tenement Museum talk Eliot Spitzer moderated last night with Pulitzer-winning ProPublica reporters Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein about the shady Wall Street practices that brought …
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Forbes, The New York Observer, Future of Journalism and Talking Biz News
Jesse Holcomb / Journalism.org:
Occupy Wall Street Drives Economic Coverage
Occupy Wall Street Drives Economic Coverage
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On Media's Blog, TVNewser and Multichannel
Kelvin MacKenzie / London Evening Standard:
I only checked the source of one story when I was Sun editor... and that landed me with £1m bill for Elton libel — So where is David Cameron today? Where is our great Prime Minister who ordered this ludicrous inquiry? — After all, the only reason we are all here is due to one man's action …
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Guardian, @benfenton, @benfenton and Guardian
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Leveson inquiry seminar on phone hacking and media standards - live
Leveson inquiry seminar on phone hacking and media standards - live
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@jamesro47, @jamesro47, Editor's Blog, @benfenton and Press Gazette
James Robinson / Guardian:
Daily Mail to launch corrections column
Daily Mail to launch corrections column
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Journalism.co.uk and The Huffington Post
CNET News:
How Gizmodo escaped indictment in iPhone prototype deal — The great iPhone prototype caper of 2010 has finally ended, with the two men accused of shopping the device to gadget blogs sentenced to probation yesterday. — Last year's investigation began with a raid on Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's Fremont …
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VentureBeat, PC Magazine, SlashGear, The Consumerist, Threat Level and 9to5Mac, more at Techmeme »
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Why floods couldn't break through Pennsylvania paywall, while New York Times created leaks in theirs — Newspapers spend a lot of time and energy erecting website paywalls, but are they thinking enough about when to take them down? — Even if a publisher commits to a paywall …
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Homicide Watch D.C. uses clues in site search queries to ID homicide victim — Laura Amico, editor of Homicide Watch D.C., describes how she used site analytics to identify a homicide victim — again. Early Sunday morning, she saw a police department news alert stating that a juvenile male had been killed.
Discussion:
NetNewsCheck Latest and One Reporter's Notebook
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Reader's Digest Parting Ways with Rachael Ray — Reader's Digest Association doesn't want to be in the Rachael Ray business anymore. — A month after replacing its CEO, the publisher just announced that it intends to sell Every Day with Rachael Ray, a cooking magazine launched five years ago in partnership with the TV host.
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Adweek, Media & Entertainment, rbr.com, AdAge, AdAge and FishbowlNY
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
AOL Wants To Be The AP For Online Video; Offers “Editors Room” For Video Embeds — The problem with online video is that producing the high-quality stuff at scale is expensive and difficult. But what if there was a place online that licensed decent videos and made it available to other sites?
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NetNewsCheck Latest, Loop21 and Online Video News, more at Techmeme »
Somini Sengupta / Bits:
Stanford Researcher Finds Lots of Leaky Web Sites — The Web is porous. Remarkable information trickles in from everywhere. It also sometimes spills out without its users knowing exactly where or how. — Take for instance these findings, released on Tuesday by computer scientists at Stanford University.
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Nextgov.com, Softpedia News, cyberlaw.stanford.edu and L.A. Times Tech Blog
Steve Myers / Poynter:
The Daily Meal offers advertisers money-back guarantee — The Daily Meal is promising companies that buy $200,000 of ads over three months that they will get their money back if the ads don't result in a “statistically significant increase” in one of five measures of brand influence.
John Biggs / TechCrunch:
The iOS Newsstand Is Open For Business — Folks who have upgraded to iOS 5 will note that the iOS Newsstand is now running and available as a standalone app. If you've already downloaded any of Apple's official magazines - most Conde Nast titles are using Apple's own service, for example …
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Poynter, paidContent:UK, GigaOM and Softpedia News
Fred Schruers / The Wrap:
Conde Nast's New Mogul Dawn Ostroff: Forget Cable, Digital Is the Future — Conde Nast's new president of entertainment Dawn Ostroff saw the potential in cable TV before many of her peers. Nowadays, she's excited about the digital future. — In an interview with TheWrap …
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Mixed Media and CNET News, more at Techmeme »
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Bloomberg TV's First Debate A Home Run — There may be some argument over who was the winner of last night's Bloomberg/The Washington Post Republican Presidential Debate, but from a media perspective, one victor is crystal-clear: Bloomberg TV. Hosting their first-ever televised debate …
Discussion:
The New Yorker Blog and On Media's Blog
J. Harry Jones / SignOnSanDiego.com:
Borrego Sun editor killed in murder-suicide — BORREGO SPRINGS — The voice of Borrego Springs has died, the apparent victim of a murder-suicide at the hands of her estranged husband, and the small, unincorporated desert community is reeling. — Judy Winter Meier, 61 …
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FishbowlLA
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Planning a paywall? Maybe you should sell some e-books instead — The number of newspapers and other media entities that are erecting paywalls or launching subscription-based apps for the iPhone and iPad continues to grow, and even some smaller regional newspapers are throwing up walls to try to protect their print subscriptions.
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NYConvergence.com and eMedia Vitals, Thanks:mathewi
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
7 keys to managing a great social media news team — As news organizations embrace Twitter and Facebook to distribute stories and engage their audiences, many have decided social media is no longer a one-person job. — Effective social media use now requires that you post and monitor almost …
Discussion:
eMedia Vitals and NetNewsCheck Latest