Mediagazer: Josh Fox arrested at hearing (Talia Buford/Politico)

3:00 PM ET, February 1, 2012

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‘Gasland’ Journalists Arrested At Hearing By Order Of House Republicans — In a stunning break with First Amendment policy on Capitol Hill, House Republicans directed Capitol Hill police to detain a highly regarded documentary crew that was attempting to film a Wednesday hearing on a controversial natural gas procurement practice.

Discussion: FishbowlDC and The Newspaper Guild

Talia Buford / Politico:

Josh Fox arrested at hearing — Photo courtesy of the office of Rep. Paul Tonko — Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Josh Fox was arrested Wednesday morning after attempting to film a House Science Committee hearing on hydraulic fracturing. — Fox was led out in handcuffs …

Discussion: Mediaite

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Police during the Occupy Wall Street ‘Day of Action.’ Adrian Kinloch — The New York Times fired off another letter to the Police Department today on behalf of 13 New York-based news organizations about police treatment of the press over the last several months.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

AOL Beats Low Expectations, Increasing Ad Revenue and Slowing Total Decline in Q4 (Plus Charts!) — AOL said it earned 23 cents a share for the fourth quarter on revenue of $576.8 million, compared to 65 cents per share on $596 million in the same quarter a year ago.

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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

AOL's Armstrong: Some Patches DID Turn Profitable in 2011 — Armstrong. Image by Getty Images North America via @daylife — It's not like AOL chairman Tim Armstrong to hide his light under a bushel, but when it comes to Patch, the company's hyperlocal network, he may have done just that on this morning's earnings call.

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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Is AOL Retreating on Its Patch Profitability Promise?

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Tom Espiner / ZDNet:

Assange's Supreme Court extradition appeal kicks off — Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has begun his Supreme Court bid to avoid extradition to Sweden to face questioning about allegations of sexual coercion. — Assange appeared relaxed as the two-day hearing began in the Supreme Court building opposite …

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Jana Winter / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: Wikileaks to move servers offshore, sources say

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Robert Booth / Guardian:
Julian Assange extradition breaches legal principle, lawyer claims

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David Kravets / Threat Level:

Google to Censor Blogger Blogs on a ‘Per Country Basis’ — Google has quietly announced changes to its Blogger free-blogging platform that will enable the blocking of content only in countries where censorship is required. — Twitter announced technology last week addressing the same topic.

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Steven Greenhouse / Media Decoder:

Former Intern Sues Hearst Over Unpaid Work and Hopes to Create a Class Action — A former unpaid intern for the fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, accusing its parent company, the Hearst Corporation, of violating federal and state wage and hour laws by not paying …

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John Stevens / Daily Mail:

Email to James Murdoch telling him hacking was rife at NotW was deleted days before police launched investigation — An email warning James Murdoch that phone-hacking was ‘rife’ at the News of the World was deleted from his inbox days before police started an investigation into the newspaper, it was revealed last night.

Mark Hughes / The Telegraph: Glenn Mulcaire ordered to reveal who told him to hack phones

Roy Greenslade / London Evening Standard: Arrests leave Sun journalists feeling cast off by Rupert

Dylan Stableford / Yahoo! News:

Yahoo News hires Olivier Knox as its first White House correspondent — Yahoo News has hired Olivier Knox, Congressional correspondent for Agence France-Press, to be its White House correspondent—the first in Yahoo's 16-year history. — Knox—who has spent more than a decade with AFP covering politics …

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Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:

L.A. Times Revenue Officer Departs (Exclusive) — Los Angeles Times executive John T. O'Loughlin will become the latest high-ranking official to leave the newspaper, TheWrap has learned. — O'Loughlin serves as the Times' Executive Vice President of Advertising and Chief Revenue Officer …

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Lauren Lloyd / LAist:
Former L.A. Times Employee Warns Of Impending Massive Writer Layoff

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Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:

YouTube could introduce a subscription service of its own — At the D:Dive Into Media conference Tuesday, YouTube CEO Salar Kamangar gave his views on how the video marketplace is evolving both online and off. While much of the company's efforts have been based on advertising …

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Julie Moos / Poynter:

Andrew Beaujon joins Poynter in February as Senior Online Reporter — I'm happy to announce that Andrew Beaujon will join The Poynter Institute later this month as Senior Online Reporter. Andrew comes to the Institute from TBD, where he has been arts editor since May 2010.

Eddie Scarry / FishbowlDC:

Operation ‘Butter Up FNC’ in Full Force by Politico — Politico has been working diligently to defrost its icy relationship with Fox News as of late. And it appears to be paying off, or at least moving in a cozier direction. — FishbowlDC has learned that FNC's media relations department has been forced to “soften up” on Politico.

Discussion: Politico, GalleyCat and TVNewser

David Pierce / The Verge:

Longform iPad app brings the web's best reads into one place (hands-on) — There are a large (and growing) number of ways to read the stuff you find online — Instapaper, Read it Later, Readability, and Evernote Clearly, to name just a few — but finding things to read can be harder.

Discussion: Gizmodo

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Barnes & Noble faces setback in Microsoft antitrust complaint — Microsoft may have scored an early victory in its legal tussle with Barnes & Noble. The two companies are engaged in parallel battles, one via the Department of Justice, another via United States International Trade Commission.

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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Barnes & Noble Won't Sell Amazon's Imprints in Stores

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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Amazon: Print Book Unit Sales Up; More Content For Prime — Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) says unit sales of print books grew by “double digits” in Q4 compared to last year. That “is impressive given the shift to Kindle,” said CFO Tom Szkutak in the investor call following this afternoon's disappointing earnings report.