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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
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 …
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The Daily Caller, Reporters Committee News and Threat Level
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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.
Will Bunch / Media Matters for America:
How The First Battle Of The Brooklyn Bridge Changed The Media Narrative — Today marks the two-month anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street protest — a number of major actions are planned, including a march on Wall Street itself as I write this, and eventually a march on the Brooklyn Bridge.
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Mediaite, The Atlantic Online, Forbes, B&C and The New York Observer
Robert Mackey / The Lede:
Drone Journalism Arrives — Now that cellphone cameras have turned every protester with a Twitter account or a YouTube channel into a potential multimedia journalist, police officers in several American cities appear to be having trouble distinguishing between activists and reporters.
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www.thetakeaway.org, Gawker and Boing Boing
Megan McCarthy / The New York Observer:
Bloomberg Spokesperson Admits Arresting Credentialed Reporters, Reading The Awl — Stu Loeser, Mayor Bloomberg's spokesperson, just sent out a note regarding an Awl report listing the names of reporters arrested during the Occupy Wall Street protests. In the email, reprinted below …
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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Erik Wemple, Future of Journalism, Media Decoder, City Room, LA Observed, hosted2.ap.org, New York Magazine, mediabistro.com and GigaOM
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Protesters Shutting Down the Subway? Depends on What You Watch
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newsfeed.time.com, City Room, TVNewser and TVSpy
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.
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VentureBeat, mediabistro.com and GeekWire, more at Techmeme »
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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
TechCrunch CEO Reported Out After Clashing with HuffPost-ers — The resignations keep coming at AOL. The latest to give notice, according to Business Insider, is TechCrunch CEO Heather Harde. Harde, a former News Corp. executive who joined TechCrunch five years ago …
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.
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Gawker
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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 …
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Poynter
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Sarah Lyall / New York Times:
British Tabloid Paper Portrayed as Prompting Suicides
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TVWeek.com
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Sun's former head of features sues News Corp execs over sacking
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Adweek and The New York Observer
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) …
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Hearst Corporation
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Lucia Moses / Adweek:
A Groupon for Newspapers? — Newspapers, in danger of having …
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Poynter, NetNewsCheck Latest, mnilive.com, Broadcasting & Cable and Future of Journalism
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 …
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mocoNews
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 …
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Matt Potter / San Diego Reader:
Manchester Purchase of Union-Tribune Raises Questions of Timing
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Poynter
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 …
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rbr.com
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 …
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Patch traffic rides high on local elections and hurricanes, but can a drive-by audience be enough? — Events are a cornerstone of journalism, whether planned or unexpected. Whether it's a World Series run or a flood, the result is often a traffic bump for news sites.
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 …
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