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Chicago Sun Times:
Journalists arrested in Occupy Wall Street sweeps — NEW YORK — Journalists have been detained by police while covering Occupy Wall Street protests in New York. — Associated Press writer Karen Matthews was taken into custody Tuesday along with AP photographer Seth Wenig and Daily News reporter Matthew Lysiak.
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Steve Myers / Poynter:
Journalists arrested, roughed up as police clear Zuccotti Park of OWS protesters — Journalists said they were shut out and roughed up as the New York Police Department cleared Zuccotti Park of Occupy Wall Street protesters in the early morning hours Tuesday.
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The New York Observer, Capital New York, Speakeasy, Boing Boing, News: News blog and Mother Jones
James Poniewozik / Time:
NYC Un-Occupies Wall Street, Manages the Media — New York City police in riot gear raided and cleared the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park around 1 a.m. Tuesday. As it happened—coincidentally or not—this was past press time for local papers.
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Mother Jones, GalleyCat, Guardian, Future of Journalism, mediabistro.com, msnbc.com, Mediaite and Gawker
Jared Malsin / New York Times:
Video: Reporter for The Local Is Arrested During Occupy Wall Street Clearing — The police arrested some 200 people, including this reporter, in and around the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park early Tuesday. — While some officers, many in riot gear …
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City Room, The Huffington Post, Guardian, Gothamist and Best Week Ever
Natasha Lennard / Salon:
Why I quit the mainstream media — Journalism must break the chains of objectivity and report truth — and the Occupy movement led me to do just that — Protesters sit with arms linked on New York's Brooklyn Bridge before police began making arrests on Oct. 1 and author Natasha Lennard.
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Poynter and Media Research Center
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Reporters Say Police Denied Access to Protest Site
Reporters Say Police Denied Access to Protest Site
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Capital New York, LA Observed, ANIMAL, L.A. NOW, Boing Boing, FishbowlNY, The New York Observer, ThinkProgress, PolitickerNY, NY Daily News and TVSpy
Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:
NI: ‘No guarantees’ that hacking stopped after arrests — Rhodri Davies QC tells Leveson inquiry that News International can't guarantee phone hacking didn't continue after arrest and imprisonment of Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire — Davies also told the inquiry that News International …
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Guardian, Guardian and Journalism.co.uk
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Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Signs of broader hacking at Murdoch newspaper
Amelia Hill / Guardian:
Phone-hacking inquiry deals with gremlins in the system
Phone-hacking inquiry deals with gremlins in the system
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Press Gazette and New York Times
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Ratings: ABC Dominates With Giffords Interview, Sandusky Leads ‘Rock Center’ To Ratings High — ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer's interview with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband former astronaut Mark Kelly was easily the top broadcast program at 10 PM according to Nielsen fast national ratings.
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Media Decoder, rbr.com, PRNewser and FishbowlDC
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Charlie Rose and Gayle King Join ‘The Early Show’ on CBS — CBS News on Tuesday announced a top-to-bottom reboot of “The Early Show,” its long-suffering morning news broadcast, with Charlie Rose and Gayle King at the helm. The moves will take effect in January.
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TVNewser, Broadcasting & Cable and Inside TV
John Koblin / WWD:
New York Times Launches The Collection App — ALL IN ONE PLACE: The New York Times on Monday launched The Collection, an iPad app that will be a catchall for the paper's fashion and style content. The Collection app will be updated every day, and will draw in content from the paper's Styles desk …
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Poynter, Nieman Journalism Lab, FishbowlNY and mnilive.com
Jack Shafer:
Stop the Chelsea moaning; she's “somebody” — Allow me to be among the first working journalists to welcome Chelsea Clinton to the Fourth Estate. Clinton, as you probably read in this morning's New York Times, has taken a job with NBC News as a full-time special correspondent and will cover stories …
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LA Observed, The Week, St. Petersburg Times, Media Decoder, The Huffington Post and entertainment.time.com
Jon Slattery:
Editors say editorial staff down 29% since 2007 — A new Society of Editors' survey reveals that editorial staff numbers have fallen by 29% since 2007. — The survey of editors' attititudes by consultant Jim Chisholm says content generation staffing has fallen by 19% …
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Guardian and Press Gazette
The Hollywood Reporter:
Penn State Scandal: Advertisers Bail on ESPN Broadcast … In the wake of the sexual abuse scandal that led to the recent firing of head coach Joe Paterno after his former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was charged with 40 counts of sexual abuse of children, at least six advertisers …
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Company Town, Media Decoder and Forbes
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The Independent:
BBC ‘cheap programming’ scandal exposed — The programmes were made for “low or nominal cost” but many were heavyweight documentaries on controversial environmental issues and the BBC Trust, the corporation's governing body, said today it was “deeply concerned” by the findings.
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Guy Fawkes' blog
Robert Booth / Guardian:
Julian Assange seeks to take extradition fight to supreme court — WikiLeaks founder will ask permission to appeal against high court ruling that he must face sex crime charges in Sweden — The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, is to apply for a supreme court hearing to appeal …
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Future of Journalism
Clint Hendler / CJR:
Does a New York Times-mimicking web ad violate policy? — The paper says No. Your eyes may disagree. — The New York Times has a policy forbidding advertising that closely appropriates the paper's design elements. From the paper's advertising acceptability guidelines:
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Charles Apple, New York Times and Talking Biz News
Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:
Allies Accuse James O'Keefe of ‘Hit Job’ in Undercover NPR Sting — The two men who pulled off James O'Keefe's NPR sting are now criticizing the conservative activist for what one calls a ‘hit job.’ They tell Howard Kurtz exclusively why they feel exploited. — The fake Muslim donor had played his role perfectly.
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Mediaite and ThinkProgress
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Mensch seeks ‘full disclosure’ over surveillance — Select committee to meet to discuss claims that its members were tailed by News International investigators in 2009 — MPs on the select committee investigating phone hacking will meet on Tuesday to discuss what action it will take over allegations …
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themediablog.typepad.com, Tom Watson MP and paidContent
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Amelia Hill / Guardian:
BBC constrained by need to avoid political bias, admits Lord Patten
BBC constrained by need to avoid political bias, admits Lord Patten
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Press Gazette, Future of Journalism and Guardian