Mediagazer: Regional publishers failed to invest in the future when flush with cash (Roy Greenslade/Guardian)

5:20 AM ET, November 17, 2011

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Associated Press Staff Scolded for Tweeting Too Quickly About OWS Arrests — A high importance e-mail went out to Associated Press employees early Wednesday morning to remind them of Twitter rules in the wake of staff arrests at yesterday's local protests. “In relation to AP staff being taken …

Discussion: Poynter, Poynter, Erik Wemple, Mediaite, mediabistro.com, The Huffington Post, Boing Boing, Future of Journalism, Associated Press, Editors Weblog, Vanity Fair and Guardian, more at Techmeme »

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 …

Discussion: Future of Journalism, Gawker, hosted2.ap.org, Mediaite, Forbes, City Room, Anthony DeRosa, Rob Pegoraro, The Huffington Post and Slate

Carlos Miller / Pixiq:
Number Of Journalists Arrested During Occupy Wall Street Raid Rises To Ten

Discussion: The New York Observer, Erik Wemple, The New Yorker Blog, @jcstearns, The Atlantic Wire, Groundswell, Media Decoder, New York Times and FishbowlNY

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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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

Tumblr Takes Fight Against SOPA Up A Notch, ‘Censors’ User Dashboards — Congress is in the process of kneecapping the web as we know it with a House bill called the Stop Online Piracy Act (a similar bill, called the Protect IP Act, is in the Senate). In a misguided attempt to curb piracy on the web …

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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
House Judiciary Committee SOPA Hearings Stacked 5 To 1 In Favor Of Censoring The Internet

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Suw Charman-Anderson / Firstpost:
SOPA: The bill that could kill the Internet

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Jennifer Martinez / Politico: Shootout at the digital corral

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Key AOL executive Brad Garlinghouse to leave — Brad Garlinghouse, President of the Applications and Commerce Group and head of AOL's Silicon Valley operations is leaving the beleaguered online service AOL, according to multiple sources. Garlinghouse is well known in Silicon Valley …

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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 …

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

The road ahead for The Huffington Post: Nine months and a merger later, ‘Capital-J Journalism’ is still a work in progress — On March 3, less than a month after AOL agreed to acquire her eponymous website in a $315 million deal, Arianna Huffington was joined by AOL chairman …

Discussion: Poynter

Steve Myers / Poynter:

3 out of 10 journalism startups don't have a business plan — A survey of people leading journalism startups finds that “the typical management team is top-heavy with journalists ... Nevertheless, the respondents said that journalists can make good business people.

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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.

Discussion: City Desk, The New Yorker Blog, mediabistro.com and PolitickerNY

Megan Carpentier / The Raw Story:

Bank of America hires Malcolm Gladwell to attract small business clients — Bank of America announced today that they had contracted with author and New Yorker scribe Malcolm Gladwell to headline a series of lectures designed to attract small business owners to the much-criticized bank.

Discussion: Business Wire, Gawker, Runnin' Scared and New York Magazine

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.

Bill Shaikin / Dodgers Blog:

Dodgers sue Fox Sports, alleging interference in team sale [UPDATED] — The Dodgers sued Fox Sports on Wednesday, alleging the television company is trying to “interfere with the sale of the Dodgers and their assets in bankruptcy.” — The suit was filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, MLB.com, Reuters and The Wrap

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 …

Foster Kamer / Betabeat:

Social Media is NOT Just For Interns! (Says a Disgruntled NPR Social Media Manager) — Can a Fail Whale shed tears? — Social media! Some people believe in its power for brands to attain previously unexplored levels of reach and influence while engaging with their audience in a totally new and awesome and visceral way.

Discussion: Adweek, ZDNet and Inside AdWords

DealBook:

Brant's SP Newsprint Files for Bankruptcy — Greenwich, Conn., is known for being a haven for multi-millionaires. But even businesses based in the wealthy town aren't immune from bankruptcy. — SP Newsprint, one of the country's biggest newsprint makers, filed for Chapter 11 protection …

Discussion: New York Magazine

John Biggs / TechCrunch:

Thar's Money In That Long-Form Non-Fiction: Longreads Founder Headed To Read It Later — Mark Armstrong founded his site, Longreads, in 2009. Using Twitter hash tags, the site simply aggregated user's picks for the best long-form non-fiction on the web, offering a poor man's content curation engine.

Discussion: TeleRead, more at Techmeme »

The Independent:

Leveson inquiry: Dowlers' ‘euphoria’ over voicemails — Milly Dowler's mother felt “euphoria” when she finally got through to her missing daughter's voicemail after a private detective deleted some of the messages, the press standards inquiry heard today.

Discussion: Daily Mail