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Daily Mail:
Popular TV host and son of New York City police commissioner accused of ‘raping young woman in her office’ — A popular television host whose father is the New York City Police Commissioner is under investigation for alleged rape. — Greg Kelly, son of Ray Kelly, denies any wrongdoing and says he is co-operating with officials.
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Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:
Former FNC White House Reporter Accused of Rape
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Newsday, rbr.com and New Jersey Online
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Gingrich admits ABC claim was false — After nearly a week on the defensive, CNN's John King reports tonight that Newt Gingrich's claim about offering witnesses to ABC News in his defense — to rebut the network's interview with his second wife, Marianne Gingrich — was not true.
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New York Magazine, Riptide 2.0, CNN, Gothamist, @eggerton, Hot Air, The Daily What and Mediaite
Gordon Rayner / Telegraph:
Leveson inquiry: Google asked to remove dozens of web pages for national security — Google received 65 requests from the Government to remove web pages from its database in the first half of last year, the Leveson Inquiry has heard. National security was “the single biggest category” …
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Press Gazette:
Google removed hundreds of Max Mosley web pages — Google has removed hundreds of web pages relating to former Formula 1 boss Max Mosley's sex life from its search results index, the Leveson Inquiry heard. — But the internet giant said it dealt with requests for material to be excluded …
Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:
ICO: Notifying Whittamore victims would be ‘phenomenal undertaking’
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Guardian, Guardian and Hacking inquiry
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:
Former Liberian dictator threatens to sue Boston Globe — Days before the Boston Globe published a withering editor's note essentially retracting its Jan. 17 story about former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor's alleged ties to the CIA, African news sources were reporting that Taylor was threatening to sue the Globe for libel.
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Boston Globe, Foreign Policy and Africa Review
BuzzFeed:
Right Launches Giant Campaign Against Media — A conservative media watchdog says it's launching a $5 million assault on the mainstream media today to beat back “an onslaught of character assassination against anyone who dares to challenge Obama.” Media Research Center founder Brent Bozell …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Apple in China: The New York Times goes for the Pulitzer — Its investigative series about how our electronic gadgets are made could be a contender — Aftermath of an explosion at an iPad factory in Chengdu, China — When monologist Mike Daisey flew to China to find out why the workers …
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New York Times, Poynter, New York Magazine, Forbes, AllThingsD, MacRumors, The Wrap, Real Dan Lyons Web Site and 9to5Mac, more at Techmeme »
Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
A Decline in Viewers for State of the Union Address — There were an estimated 37.8 million television viewers of President Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday night, the lowest total in his presidency. — The State of the Union address Tuesday night was seen by 37.8 million television viewers …
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TVNewser, Broadcasting & Cable, TVbytheNumbers and Chickaboomer
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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
State of the Union: FNC #1, MSNBC #2, CNN #3
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FishbowlDC, 10,000 Words and Multichannel
Maureen O'Connor / Gawker:
James O'Keefe Asked Me to Help Him Sue Liberal Media Outlets — Laughably lame right-wing filmmaker James O'Keefe III is thinking about suing (broke) liberal website Salon “for their false and malicious reporting.” I know this because he asked me, an employee at a liberal website he considers his enemy, for advice.
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Adam Penenberg / Fast Company:
Unmasking A Digital Pirate On Amazon — A Kuwaiti national using fake names and selling others' copyrighted stories in the Kindle Store sheds light on black hat hacker forums—and the theft, taboo sex, and swindles festering in the recesses of Amazon. — Editor's Note — Want more on digital piracy?
Ben Fritz / Company Town:
Netflix deal with Warner Bros. includes delay in queues — Under a new deal between the two companies, Netflix users won't just have to wait 56 days to rent Warner Bros. movies on DVD. They'll have to wait 28 days to add the movies to their queues. — As part of the Warner's continuing effort …
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AllThingsD and Broadcasting & Cable
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Netflix Bounces Back With a Q4 Beat, but Says Amazon Is Coming
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Forbes, Home Media Magazine, CNET, Guardian, VentureBeat, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, the Econsultancy blog, Fortune, Techland, TechCrunch, GigaOM, Fast Company, VatorNews, paidContent, GeekWire, Epicenter, 24/7 Wall St., MediaFile, The Wrap, Broadcasting & Cable, MediaPost, The Next Web, paidContent, Electronista, VentureBeat and paidContent, more at Techmeme »
Katherine Rushton / Telegraph:
Guardian pins digital future on citizen journalism — The Guardian is on a “mission” to be able to stand alone as a digital-only publication, and is mixing its stable of traditional journalists with enthusiastic laypeople, one of its most senior executives has claimed.
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Forbes
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Meet Deep Dive, the New York Times' experimental context engine and story explorer — Thinking about the sheer volume of information — stories, images, videos, data — available from The New York Times can evoke a simultaneous glee and terror. Skimming Times Wire gives you an idea …
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Poynter, The New York Observer and NYConvergence.com
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
New Facebook data: Be topical, ask questions, and tell jokes to win audience — Write about current affairs. Add in a little commentary (or a question). And, for the love of all that is holy, include a link. — Those are three of the takeaways from some new data that Facebook just released …
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The New York Observer, newsplexer, Poynter, paidContent, Future of Journalism, JIMROMENESKO.COM, VentureBeat, ZDNet and TechCrunch
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