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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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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.
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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Foreign Policy, Boston Globe and Africa Review
Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:
ICO: Notifying Whittamore victims would be ‘phenomenal undertaking’ — Information commissioner rejects call from Hacked Off campaign, saying it would not be possible to notify victims identified by Operation Motorman but he is open to individual requests — Information commissioner …
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Guardian, Guardian and Hacking inquiry
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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” …
Ian Burrell / The Independent:
Newspapers face wave of lawsuits over use of private eye Whittamore
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Jon Slattery and Press Gazette
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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Steve Myers / Poynter:
Latest numbers indicate New York Times traffic is flat since paywall — BuzzFeed reports that the U.K.'s Daily Mail has passed The New York Times as the largest online newspaper property in the world. A spokeswoman for the Times says this doesn't mean that the Daily Mail …
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Guardian
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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
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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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Netflix Bounces Back With a Q4 Beat, but Says Amazon Is Coming
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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Netflix streaming users now outnumber DVD subscribers 2:1
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Free Press, Electronista, The Next Web and Media Money …
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?
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, VentureBeat, JIMROMENESKO.COM, ZDNet and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
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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
News.me:
Getting the News - Zach Seward — This week we reached out to Zach Seward, editor of outreach and social media for the Wall Street Journal. In addition to his writing and editing at the Journal, Zach teaches a class on digital media at NYU. He's working at the intersection of social media and news every day.
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Future's Newsstand Transformation: 75,000 New Subscribers — UK magazine publisher Future made $1 million in new tablet magazine revenue within a month of debuting 65 of its titles on iTunes' Newsstand. — 104 days after Future debuted the titles with Newsstand's September 12 launch …
Kevin Lincoln / Business Insider:
REVEALED: The Bars Where New York's Media Elites Booze After Work — Journalists like to go to bars. — We don't have any scientific or statistical evidence to back this up. Call it an observation. — And that observation got us thinking: in New York, where do writers and editors …
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