Mediagazer: Phone hacking: NI asks judge to strike out exemplary damages claims (Dan Sabbagh/Guardian)

7:30 PM ET, November 17, 2011

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Journalists Beaten, Arrested During Occupy Wall Street Protests — As thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters took to the streets on Thursday, journalists once again found themselves a target of police violence and arrests. — Reporters took to Twitter and, in some cases …

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Reporters Committee News and Threat Level

Choire Sicha / The Awl:

26 Arrested Reporters and What They Do — Put together by Josh Stearns, this document has been a great resource to track journalists working on Occupy Wall Street stories around the country who've been arrested. So who are they? Only seven of the 25 arrested are full-time employed traditional news-gathering employees.

Discussion: The New York Observer, Capital New York, Media Matters for America, City Room, Broadcasting & Cable, Mediaite, The Wrap and PolitickerNY

Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Protesters Shutting Down the Subway? Depends on What You Watch

Discussion: City Room, newsfeed.time.com, The New Yorker Blog, TVNewser and TVSpy

Richard Huff / NY Daily News: Covering Occupy Wall Street movement day proves to be a risky challenge for local TV

Juli Weiner / Vanity Fair: An Oral History of a Vanity Fair Photographer's Arrest at Occupy Wall Street

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 …

Discussion: TVWeek.com

Paul Sonne / Wall Street Journal:

Police, News Corp. Question U.K. Hacking Total — LONDON—Lawyers for the Metropolitan Police and News Corp. have disputed the suggestion, made at a public inquiry here Monday, that a private investigator's notebook identifies at least 28 employees of News Corp.'s U.K. newspaper unit as people …

Discussion: Poynter

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Phone hacking: NI asks judge to strike out exemplary damages claims — Publisher's lawyer seeks to avoid punitive fines in civil actions brought by Steve Coogan, Sky Andrew and other victims — News International wants a high court judge to strike out demands from phone-hacking victims …

Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Sun's former head of features sues News Corp execs over sacking

Discussion: Adweek and The New York Observer

New York Times:

Reuters Will No Longer Let Reporter Who Worked for Saleh Cover Yemen — The Reuters news agency on Thursday stood by its Yemen correspondent amid outrage from opposition activists over his employment by the government as a personal translator to President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Discussion: Gawker

@erikwemple:
Reuters concluded not “appropriate” to have stringer working as gov't employee at same time. http://t.co/hlUjRPds

Discussion: Erik Wemple

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Major Newspaper Publishers Band Together On Social Shopping Portal — A group of eight newspaper publishers—Advance Digital, A. H. Belo Corporation, Cox Media Group, Gannett (NYSE: GCI), Hearst, MediaNews Group, The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI), and The Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) …

Discussion: Hearst Corporation

Lucia Moses / Adweek:
A Groupon for Newspapers? — Newspapers, in danger of having …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Poynter, mnilive.com, Broadcasting & Cable and Future of Journalism

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.

Discussion: Erik Wemple, NetNewsCheck Latest, Future of Journalism, Media Decoder, GigaOM, City Room, Mashable!, hosted2.ap.org, LA Observed, mediabistro.com, New York Magazine and Anthony DeRosa

Tiffany Hsu / LA Times:

San Diego Union-Tribune sold to hotel magnate Doug Manchester — The San Diego Union-Tribune is being sold to MLIM, owned by local hotel magnate Doug Manchester, said current owner Platinum Equity. — Terms of the deal weren't disclosed by Los Angeles-based Platinum …

Matt Potter / San Diego Reader:
Manchester Purchase of Union-Tribune Raises Questions of Timing

Discussion: Poynter and The Wrap

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Barnes & Noble Bullish, Even On Drastically Shrinking Print Market — Speaking at Liberty Media's annual investor meeting this afternoon, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) CEO William Lynch said the company expects the size of the print book market to decrease by a third by 2015 …

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?”

Discussion: Fast Company, the Econsultancy blog and GigaOM

Glenn Peoples / Hollywood Reporter:
Google Music Launch Unveils a Solid Competitor to Apple, Amazon, Spotify

Discussion: New York Times, ZDNet, The Official Google Blog and PC Magazine

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: AVN, Fleshbot, Felix, The Atlantic Wire, VentureBeat, FishbowlNY and Medacity

Martha Mendoza / Associated Press:

AP Impact: Right-to-know laws often ignored … Satbir Sharma's wife is dead. His family lives in fear in rural India. His father's left leg is shattered, leaving him on crutches for life. — Sharma's only consolation lies in a new law that gives him the right to know what will happen …

Discussion: 10,000 Words

Roy Greenslade / Guardian: Paper still blocked after three-year freedom of information battle

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Has Netflix Put Its Checkbook Away? — If you're waiting to hear about more big Netflix content deals in the near future, you may be disappointed. — J.P. Morgan analyst Doug Anmuth reports back from a recent huddle with Netflix managers, and says he thinks they're done writing checks for a while …

Discussion: rbr.com

Ian Burrell / The Independent:

BBC aired documentary made by TV company in the pay of Mubarak — The BBC has admitted 15 breaches of its editorial guidelines and has bought documentaries for “nominal” fees aslittle as £1 from a company that was working to promote foreign governments such as the Egyptian regime of the now-deposed Hosni Mubarak.

Discussion: BBC

Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

Google Tells Congress: Financial Embargo Of WikiLeaks Shows How To Deal With Web Piracy — A massive copyright fight is scaling up over the Stop Online Piracy Act, a bill that Hollywood sees as a panacea for online copyright violation and Silicon Valley sees as a fundamental threat to the Internet itself.

Discussion: Future of Journalism, The Raw Story, GigaOM, Mixed Media, Electronic Frontier Foundation, ESET ThreatBlog, Techdirt, 10,000 Words and Firstpost

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

Heather Harde's Quitting AOL — It has been a rough week for AOL. — First came news that Brad Garlinghouse, the west coast product boss, is quitting. — Then came news that senior TechCrunch writer Sarah Lacy is quitting. — And now a source tells us that former TechCrunch CEO Heather Harde is quitting.

Discussion: VentureBeat, GeekWire and mediabistro.com, more at Techmeme »