Mediagazer: The Velvet Rope — Why do journalists still care about seeing their name in print? (Janet Paskin/CJR)

8:10 AM ET, January 27, 2012

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Murray Weiss / DNAinfo:

Greg Kelly Accuser Claimed She Got Pregnant From Alleged Rape, Sources Say — MANHATTAN — The woman who accused Greg Kelly of raping her also claims she became pregnant as a result of the alleged sexual assault, sources told DNAinfo. — Kelly, a local TV news anchor and son …

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Richard Huff / NY Daily News:
Greg Kelly, ‘Good Day New York’ co-host accused of rape, ‘has requested some time off’: station

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Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:
Dan Abrams On Rape Allegation Against Greg Kelly: DA Knows Very Well That ‘The World Is Watching’

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Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:
Former FNC White House Reporter Accused of Rape

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KPLU News for Seattle and the Northwest:

Facebook wanted journalists to sign non-disclosures before news conference — What they DID want us to see: Facebook attorney Craig Clark, right, talks to reporters with Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna, second from right, at the press conference in Seattle on Thursday.

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Kevin Lincoln / Business Insider:

Facebook Just Hired A Bloomberg Journalist To Be Its Managing Editor — In what could be a sign of things to come, Facebook has hired Dan Fletcher, former social media director at Bloomberg, to be its managing editor. — Both Fletcher and sources at Facebook confirmed that Fletcher will make the move …

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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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Steve Myers / Poynter:
NYT publishes Chinese translation of story about workers who make Apple products

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Bobbie Johnson / GigaOM:

How the Daily Mail became the web's biggest newspaper — It's official. According to figures from comScore, Britain's Daily Mail has become the biggest newspaper on the web, hauling its way past everybody else... even the grand old New York Times. — And although the Gray Lady both disputes …

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Richard Horgan / FishbowlLA:
The Problem with the Daily Mail's Latest Internet Brag

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Janet Paskin / CJR:

The Velvet Rope — Why do journalists still care about seeing their name in print? — If print media is truly in an advanced stage of decline, if journalism's great hope is online, why do journalists still like so very much to see their names in print? By now, it ought to be like …

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Thompson to step down after Olympics — Director general will quit at the end of 2012 or early in 2013 after eight years in charge of public broadcaster — Mark Thompson, the BBC's director general, has signalled to senior colleagues that he is ready to step down, with insiders believing …

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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Amazon: Early Data Shows Kindle Owners' Lending Library Increases Sales — Amazon's early data from the Kindle Owners' Lending Library, which allows Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) prime members who are also Kindle owners to borrow one free e-book per month, “suggests the possibility of an increase …

Steve Myers / Poynter:

New York Times releases code to help journalists collaborate on WordPress, other platforms — More and more journalists use blogging platforms to write and edit stories, but those text editors are pretty basic: It's not easy to see what changes others have made to a post.

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Tim Currie / Nieman Journalism Lab:

How a tightly paywalled, social-media-ignoring, anti-copy-paste, gossipy news site became a dominant force in Nova Scotia — Every morning, the business and political elite in the biggest province on Canada's East Coast turns to an unlikely source of information about their own world.

Aziz Ali / PSFK:

Why The Graphic Novel Will Save Business Journalism — Caleb Melby recently graduated and joined Forbes Magazine. As an intern, he took on the responsibility of writing The Zen of Steve Jobs, which we wrote about last month. — The big take away point is the fact that journalism remains an industry in crisis.

Tim Bradshaw / FT Tech Hub:

Spotify hits 3m subscribers to improve conversion rate — High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail.

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BBC:

Leveson Inquiry: Facebook ‘protected by own users’ — The first phase of Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry is looking at media “culture, practices and ethics” — Facebook has “an 800 million-strong Neighbourhood Watch system” to protect against people carrying out malicious acts, the Leveson Inquiry has heard.

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Press Gazette:
Google removed hundreds of Max Mosley web pages

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Gordon Rayner / Telegraph:
Leveson inquiry: Google asked to remove dozens of web pages for national security

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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.

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Memo to media: Supply and demand are out of your hands — There are plenty of reasons why the traditional media business — including the advertising industry — is in the shape it is in, including a failure to move quickly enough to adapt to changing market conditions.

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Daniel Frankel / paidContent:

Netflix Stock Jumps More Than 20%, Equity Analysts ‘Bullish’ Again — Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) stock jumped over 20 percent, with a number of equity analysts bumping up the movie rental company's price target following its better-than-expected fourth quarter earnings report.

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