Mediagazer: SOPA Rep Blasts Wikipedia Blackout, Says Law To Go Forward In Feb. (Jeff Roberts/paidContent)

8:50 AM ET, January 18, 2012

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Jeff Roberts / paidContent:

SOPA Rep Blasts Wikipedia Blackout, Says Law To Go Forward In Feb. — Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tx), who is leading a push to pass a controversial anti-piracy bill, issued a statement today scolding Wikipedia over its plan to go dark with its English-language website for 24 hours in protest of the legislation.

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David Beard / Washington Post:

Wikipedia Blackout: An #altwiki Band-Aid — When Wikipedia goes dark on Wednesday, The Washington Post is joining several other media organizations, including the Guardian and NPR, to encourage a one-day crowdsourcing solution for those left searching for answers: #altwiki. — That's basically it.

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Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:
Wikipedia Is Dark, But Mobile Site/Apps Stay Bright In SOPA Protest

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Julie Moos / Poynter:
What the SOPA blackout really looks like

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Sources: Four More Board Members Will Be Following Yang Out the Door — According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo Co-founder Jerry Yang is just the first shoe to drop in what is shaping up to be what looks like a large exodus of board members from the Silicon Valley Internet company.

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Jerry Yang Leaves Yahoo — Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang has left the company's board of directors and all other positions, the company announced today, marking the start of what may be a series of changes in the boardroom. — Yang, who co-founded the Web giant in 1995 …

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Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

A GarageBand for ebooks: Simplifying publishing could mean a flood of new content — It's not just the platform — it's the tools. — That's the line that kept coming to mind this morning as I read this Ars Technica scoop on what Apple has in store for its press event in New York Thursday.

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Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily: Confessions of a Publisher: “We're in Amazon's Sights and They're Going to Kill Us”

Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Apple to announce tools, platform to “digitally destroy” textbook publishing

Guardian:

Leveson inquiry: Rosie Nixon, Lucie Cave, Lisa Byrne - live — Full coverage as magazine and local newspaper editors give evidence at inquiry into media standards and phone hacking — 10.04am: Three celebrity magazine editors are giving evidence together.

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Huffington Post Set to Launch Live Web TV ‘Network’ — Arianna Huffington has made no secret of her ambition to build a news organization that can rival The New York Times in reach and prestige. But right now, she has her sights set on a different target: CNN.

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Eric Pfanner / New York Times:

Strauss-Kahn's Wife to Edit Huffington Post in France — PARIS — The Huffington Post has named Anne Sinclair, the wife of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former managing director of the International Monetary Fund, as editor of its French edition, which it is setting up in partnership with the newspaper Le Monde.

David Folkenflik / NPR:

In Britain, Calls To Regulate A Freewheeling Press — The 168-year-old British tabloid, News of the World, was closed last July after a widespread scandal that involved phone and voice mail hacking. Now there's a debate about placing new regulations on the British press.

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: Editors warn of regulation's ‘chilling effect’

Dylan Stableford / Yahoo! News:

Sarah Palin slams Newsweek for giving ‘conspiracy kook writer’ Andrew Sullivan cover story — Like many conservatives, Sarah Palin is up in arms over this week's controversy-baiting Newsweek cover story by Andrew Sullivan, who asks, “Why Are Obama's Critics So Dumb?”

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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Tina Brown and the Newsweek covers

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

What Politico's Beltway cash cow, its print edition, wants from New York (and what it doesn't) — Mike Allen's influential daily Playbook email blast this morning had news of special interest to Politico's New York readers: The politics brand was now exporting its print edition to Manhattan.

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Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Politico Comes to New York

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Valerie Block / Crain's New York:

Huffington Post is developing a new video offering — Al-Jazeera could contribute content to the project. — Arianna Huffington, the president and editor in chief of Huffington Post Media Group, was quite the social butterfly during a recent trip to Doha, Qatar.

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York: Howard Fineman explains the relationship between The Huffington Post and Patch

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Reuters Launches Web TV Channel, Bringing 10 New & Original Shows To YouTube — The move to bring original programming to the web continues to heat up this week, with today's announcement of Reuters TV, a new YouTube channel featuring ten new commentary and analysis shows from the news and media division of Thomson Reuters.

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Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

AP tells staff how to correct erroneous tweets in new social media guidelines — The Associated Press updated its social media guidelines today, adding sections about correcting erroneous tweets and deleting tweets. The guidelines, which have been updated three times in the past year …

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Robert Andrews / paidContent:

The Times Plans Social Sharing Upgrade, Real-Time iPad News — News International's The Times may shed its social media invisibility cloak by letting subscribers gift paywalled articles to friends. — It is also considering introducing micropayments and may add rolling news to mobile editions.

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Jenkins on Paterno story: 'I certainly didn't walk away from the interview satisfied' — Sally Jenkins interviewed former Penn State coach Joe Paterno twice and walked away unsure whether he was telling her the truth about Jerry Sandusky. “It was tough, tricky interview …

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