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10:35 AM ET, November 17, 2011

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Julie Moos / Poynter:
AP says safety concern was behind memo about journalists tweeting colleagues' arrest  —  AP Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll has sent a memo to all employees clarifying why staffers were cautioned Tuesday not to tweet about two journalists caught up in the Occupy Wall Street eviction from Lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park.
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Memo to AP: Twitter is the newswire now  —  It's a distributed digital-information network that gives subscribers short news updates in something approaching real time, whether on the web or a mobile device.  If you said Twitter, you would be right.  But that same description …
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Sun's former head of features sues News Corp execs over sacking  —  Matt Nixson seeks £100,000 in damages after being abruptly fired from his job on 21 July  —  The Sun's former head of features, who was sacked in July, is suing News Group Newspapers and four members …
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Sarah Lyall / New York Times:
British Tabloid Paper Portrayed as Prompting Suicides  —  LONDON — A lawyer representing 51 people who say they were victims of phone hacking and press intrusion told a hearing on Wednesday that his clients and their families had been followed, spied on, threatened, harassed, vilified …
Jessica Roy / 10,000 Words:
How The Stop Online Piracy Act Could Impact Journalists  —  Unless you're wholly entrenched in the daily goings on of Internet and copyright law, SOPA might be one of those things you hadn't even heard of until this morning, when sites like BoingBoing and Tumblr and GigaOm launched posts explaining and condemning it.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
House Judiciary Committee SOPA Hearings Stacked 5 To 1 In Favor Of Censoring The Internet
Jennifer Martinez / Politico:   Shootout at the digital corral
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Don't Be Too Disappointed By Google Music's Lackluster Debut  —  The web is less than enthused by Google Music, which made its debut today with the usual fanfare.  The criticism is withering in its somewhat entitled way: “Where's the Spotify killer?”  “Rdio already does this!”  “So it's basically iTunes match?”
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Glenn Peoples / Hollywood Reporter:
Google Music Launch Unveils a Solid Competitor to Apple, Amazon, Spotify … Google did not disappoint in its hotly anticipated launch event for Google Music in Los Angeles this afternoon.  Although the company is relatively late in launching a music-download store, it has put together …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Gawker Media's Nick Denton Wants Out of the Porn Business  —  Pssst.  Hey.  You.  Want to buy a porn site?  —  Nick Denton has something for you: The Gawker Media owner is pawning off Fleshbot, the porn site he has operated for eight years in addition to sites like Gawker, Gizmodo and Deadspin.
Discussion: Fleshbot, FishbowlNY, AVN and Medacity
Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
Time Warner Cable's Marcus Sees HBO Go Agreement ‘Soon’ for Mobile Devices  —  Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC), the second- largest U.S. cable-television provider, is nearing a deal with HBO to offer the HBO Go application to subscribers so they can watch shows on mobile devices, its chief operating officer said.
Discussion: Deadline.com
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
A Groupon for Newspapers?  —  Newspapers, in danger of having their advertising lunch eaten by Groupon and its ilk, have teamed up to form an online deals platform.  —  Eight publishing and media companies are launching the common digital shopping platform, called Find n Save.
CBS News:
Cain campaign apologizes after reporter clothes-lined by security  —  CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. - Three members of Herman Cain's campaign team apologized Wednesday after man who said he was there to protect the Republican presidential candidate manhandled a reporter.
Discussion: Washington Post
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
AOL's Product Guy, Brad Garlinghouse, Heads For The Exit  —  AOL doesn't have a chief product officer, but if it did, that person would be Brad Garlinghouse, the president of Applications and Commerce who heads up AOL's Silicon Valley office.  As has been widely reported, Garlinghouse has decided to leave AOL.
Alysia Santo / CJR:
Public Radio and the Freelance Journalist  —  Should the same code of ethics apply?  —  Caitlin Curran was a freelance web producer for WNYC/PRI's radio show, The Takeaway, which has been covering the Occupy Wall Street protests.  After a picture of Curran holding a sign at a recent OWS protest went viral …
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Can Twitter advertising really work for newspapers?  —  Remember when newspapers debated the value and merits of using Twitter?  Well, there's a new question for news organizations to consider: Can newspapers use Twitter for advertising?  —  In the last few weeks, The Hartford Courant and The …
Greg Marx / CJR:
It Wasn't ‘Liberal Media’ That Froze Out Bachmann  —  And why the press is right to focus on the front-runners  —  Over the weekend, a media micro-controversy broke out: CBS News political director and Slate reporter John Dickerson wrote in an email that he'd rather book a guest …
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Regional publishers failed to invest in the future when flush with cash  —  Journalists across Britain toiling away on local and regional newspapers should read Neil Fowler's comprehensive report, Have they got news for you?  —  It's a comprehensive study of the industry's rise and fall …
Discussion: This Is London
David Kaplan / paidContent:
HBO And Sports Illustrated Website To Build Buzz A Year Ahead Of TV Series  —  Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) siblings HBO and Sports Illustrated magazine are collaborating a on a multi-part documentary series entitled Sport in America: Our Defining Stories, that's set to air sometime in 2013.
Stuart Kemp / Hollywood Reporter:
LoveFilm U.K. Signs Multi-Platform Streaming Deal with Warner Bros. … LONDON - The U.K. division of LoveFilm has signed a multi-year, multi-layer deal with Warner Bros. giving the Amazon-owned group streaming rights to titles including The Hangover, Gran Torino and Sex And The City 2.
Julie Moos / Poynter:
Fiedler: Police didn't violate journalists' First Amendment rights in Zuccotti Park eviction  —  Tom Fiedler supports journalists whose coverage of the Zuccotti Park evacuations was disrupted by police.  But the former executive editor of The Miami Herald does not think the police violated the media's First Amendment rights.
 
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