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Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
AP issues staff guidelines on retweets, no ‘personal opinions’ allowed or implied — The Associated Press has added a new entry on retweeting to its social media guidelines. Staffers are reminded to keep their opinions to themselves. … Disclaimers — like “retweets do not constitute endorsements” …
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ap.org and 10,000 Words
Wall Street Journal:
Google Ponders Pay-TV Business — Pilot Project in Kansas City Would Rival Cable, Satellite — Internet giant Google Inc. is considering a plan to offer paid cable-TV services to consumers, a move that could unleash a new wave of competition within the traditional TV business.
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Deadline.com, Future of Journalism, Engadget, Mashable!, Electronista, New York Magazine, parislemon and Business Insider, more at Techmeme »
Darren Murph / Engadget:
B&N launching Nook Tablet for $249 on November 16th, and we've got the dirty details — Sitting down? Good. Come November 16th, Amazon's Kindle Fire will have company. We've wrapped our paws around a stash of documents confirming the impending launch of the first bona fide tablet in the Nook line …
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The Money Shot, Softpedia News, TechCrunch, Fortune, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Gizmodo and Business Insider, more at Techmeme »
Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
CBS turned down an ad-based Apple TV deal — CBS CEO Les Moonves is known to occasionally drop pieces of information that he's not supposed to on his company's earnings calls, and this quarter was no exception. When asked about CBS's appetite for striking deals with new streaming providers …
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Electronista, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Multichannel, Home Media Magazine and MacRumors, more at Techmeme »
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
@ pcE11: Dawn Ostroff: Streaming Is Better Than DVRs For Advertising — Veteran TV exec Dawn Ostroff has only been in her job as the head of Condé Nast's new entertainment unit for three weeks, so it made sense that she didn't have much to say about that work when she sat …
Dominic Rushe / Guardian:
News Corp HR chief quits — Beryl Cook, who has been with the firm for 22 years, says she wants to return to Asia to be closer to her family — News Corp's top human resources executive has quit the media conglomerate as it deals with the effects of a phone-hacking scandal at its UK newspapers.
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Media Decoder, Media Week, Company Town and NetNewsCheck Latest
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Gabe Rivera / Mediagazer News:
Meet Mediagazer's New (Human) Editors — If the last thing you heard about Mediagazer's staffing was its founding editor's move to The Observer, you were probably wondering who was now running the show. Well, for over a month we've been quietly assembling a team spanning three time zones …
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Beet.TV
Adam Hochberg / Poynter:
U.S. Marshals ordered to seize Righthaven assets — A federal court has ordered U.S. Marshals to seize $63,720 in assets from Righthaven - the embattled Law Vegas company that files copyright infringement lawsuits. Righthaven tried to make money by acquiring the copyrights to newspaper articles …
Ryan Chittum / CJR:
The Journal Fizzles on Occupy Oakland Protest — Several thousand Occupy movement protestors shut down the Port of Oakland yesterday, a week after Oakland police attacked the protest with tear gas and, allegedly, flashbang grenades and rubber bullets. Big news story.
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Los Angeles Times, The New York Observer, Grist and New York Times
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Matthew Fleischer / FishbowlLA:
Cartoonist Susie Cagle Arrested at Occupy Oakland Protests
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Poynter, The Bay Citizen, TVSpy and FishbowlNY
Katy Bachman / Adweek:
“The Internet Community is Always in a Complete Lather” — With the debate over bills meant to crack down on digital piracy heating up on Capitol Hill, Adweek caught up with Robert Levine, author of Free Ride: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business …
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Broadcasting & Cable and AllThingsD
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The newsonomics of Yahoo Livestand — Those Pew research numbers — 11 percent of U.S. adults owning a tablet, tablet news-reading numbers off the charts — make everybody even hungrier. — Yahoo is the latest to try to get in on the growing banquet of reading riches …
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eMedia Vitals, MinOnline, GigaOM, Wall Street Journal, MediaPost and The New Persuaders
Evan Smith / The Texas Tribune:
T-Squared: The Texas Tribune's Two-Year Stats … Yep, today's the second anniversary of our launch — a big deal for a whole bunch of reasons (can't believe we got here, look how much we've accomplished, maybe this thing will work after all). No fancy or elaborate celebration …
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Poynter
Nia-Malika Henderson / Washington Post:
Cain camp considering legal action against Politico — A Herman Cain aide said Thursday that the Cain campaign is considering its legal options over the original Politico story, which revealed that the former head of the National Restaurant Association was accused of sexually harassing at least two women during his tenure in the 1990s.
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ABCNEWS, CNN, The Daily Caller, Big Journalism, Hot Air, Business Insider, The Huffington Post, Mediaite, The Spectacle Blog and The Huffington Post
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Phone hacking: number of possible victims is almost 5,800, police confirm — News of the World private investigator Glenn Mulcaire may have targeted 2,000 more people than previously acknowledged — The number of possible victims of phone hacking by the News of the World private investigator Glenn Mulcaire …
Discussion:
Press Gazette and Crikey
Emily Bell:
Google+ and Journalist Profiles: the best thing since sliced bread or the worst thing since bundled browsers? — The announcement from Google, that it is going to allow journalists to become more visible in its Google News service, as long as they have a profile on the Google+ social platform has sparked some comment and reaction.
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GigaOM, Future of Journalism and Alexander Howard
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Sarah Marshall / journalism.co.uk:
Journalists get a photo byline in Google News (but only those on Google+)
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VentureBeat, Adweek, Journalism.co.uk, Nieman Journalism Lab, Inside Search and Search Engine Land
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Future Of Music Coalition Says It Cannot Support E-PARASITE/SOPA In Good Conscience — While some groups representing content creators feel they need to hold their nose and stay lockstep with folks like the RIAA and MPAA in support of such obviously bad proposals as E-PARASITE/SOPA …
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Amazon Won't Pay Self-Published Author For Books It Mistakenly Gave Away — Amazon's self-publishing platform, Kindle Direct Publishing, has a rule: If you use it to publish a book, and then sell that same book on another site at a lower price, KDP retains the right to drop the price of your book in the Kindle Store too.
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The Next Web, Forbes and Future of Journalism
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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Shannon High Jumps to CNN, Will Oversee New Morning Show — TVNewser has learned Shannon High is leaving NBC's Peacock Productions to join CNN where she will oversee the new four-hour morning show. An announcement on the hire, and the new show, could come as early as tomorrow.
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Mediaite, TVSpy, Inside Cable News and TVWeek.com
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Brandon Griggs / CNN:
Steve Jobs biography is top-selling book in the U.S. — (CNN) — In its first week on sale, Walter Isaacson's biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs sold 379,000 copies in the U.S., making it by far the top-selling book in the country. — The book, titled simply “Steve Jobs,” …
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