Mediagazer: Sky Sources: Glenn Mulcaire Held Over Hacking (Sky News)

9:40 AM ET, December 7, 2011

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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
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Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:

Phone hacking: Police arrest 41-year-old man — Arrest is 18th by the Metropolitan police's phone hacking investigation Operation Weeting — The Metropolitan police arrested the man at an address in London at 7am today — Copyright: Alberto OG on Flickr. Some rights reserved

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Sky News:

Sky Sources: Glenn Mulcaire Held Over Hacking — Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire has been arrested as part of the phone-hacking inquiry, according to Sky sources. — Police said a 41-year-old man was arrested this morning as part of Operation Weeting.

Curtis Cartier / The Daily Weekly:

Crystal Cox, Oregon Blogger, Isn't a Journalist, Concludes U.S. Court—Imposes $2.5 Million Judgement on Her — A U.S. District Court judge in Portland has drawn a line in the sand between “journalist” and “blogger.” And for Crystal Cox, a woman on the latter end of that comparison, the distinction has cost her $2.5 million.

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Curtis Cartier / Seattle Weekly:
Unlike Oregon, Bloggers Are Journalists in Washington State, Do Qualify for Legal Protections

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Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:

Flipboard launches sleek iPhone app with new ‘Cover Stories’ section — Popular iPad news reading application Flipboard has made the move to the iPhone and while it retains its smart and simple design, it also has added a new Cover Stories section to boot. — Flipboard's application …

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David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Flipboard CEO's new media mission: ‘crawl the social networks’

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Telegraph:

Andy Coulson sues News Group over refusal to pay phone hacking legal fees — Andy Coulson, the former News of the World editor, took his ex-employer News Group Newspapers to the High Court today over its refusal to reimburse his legal fees arising from the phone-hacking affair.

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David Roeder / Chicago Sun Times:

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The aggregator's dilemma: How do you fairly serve your readers & the sources you rely on? — When you aggregate content, what obligation do you have to the original source — and to readers? — I asked myself this question after seeing how people reacted to the events surrounding Jim Romenesko's departure …

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Paul Roderick Gregory / Forbes:

A Blogger Could Start Russia's Arab Spring — The new face of the Russian opposition is a young whistle-blowing, shareholder activist, muckraking blogger by the name of Alexei Navalny. At 2:15 p.m. on Monday, he called his huge internet following to a 7 p.m. demonstration at the Chistye Prudy park …

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

It's online! Zombie ‘New York Press’ looks for recruits; owner wants it to be Bloomberg's ‘homepage’ — Three months after shutting down the 23-year-old newspaper New York Press, the paper's publisher, Manhattan Media, is gearing up for a relaunch of the late alternative weekly's website.

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Harrison Weber / The Next Web:

New York Times's Reveal is the mirror of the future — Reveal, created by The NY Times Company Research & Development Lab, is a mirror platform that explores the roles information and media might play in our future routines. According to the team:

Buzz Bissinger / The Daily Beast:

How Jerry Sandusky Played The New York Times in His Interview — The New York Times gave the ex-Penn State coach free rein to mount a pathetic defense against sexual abuse charges. Buzz Bissinger on how the paper royally botched the story—which should never have been printed. — Why did Joe Amendola do it?

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Patrick Meighan / My Occupy LA Arrest,:

My Occupy LA Arrest, by Patrick Meighan — My name is Patrick Meighan, and I'm a husband, a father, a writer on the Fox animated sitcom “Family Guy”, and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica. I was arrested at about 1 a.m. Wednesday morning with 291 …

David Carr / Media Decoder:

At News Foo, Imagining the End of the World, and How to Cover It — Let's say, just for giggles, that the word was ending. Could be an alien invasion, a pandemic or nuclear annihilation. If one of those scenarios became a news event, how would it be covered?

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Brent Lang / The Wrap:

Broadcasters Press Supreme Court to Overturn TV, Radio and Newspaper Ownership Rules — Broadcasters are urging the Supreme Court to loosen restrictions that prevent companies from owning newspapers, radio stations and television stations in the same market.

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Gautham Nagesh / The Hill:
Copps submits notice to resign from FCC

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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Angry About Your Cable Bill? Blame the Cable Industry, Not the NFL — Have you heard yet about how your favorite team is trying to screw you over? Don't worry. You will soon. — Trapped in a headlock of a negotiation with the NFL over broadcasting rights, the television industry …

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