Mediagazer: Stumped New York Times reporter crowdsources ID of a rare bomb (Jeff Sonderman/Poynter)

8:40 AM ET, February 2, 2012

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Police investigating allegations of email hacking at The Times — The Metropolitan Police are investigating allegations of email hacking at the Times Newspaper, sources have revealed. — It is understood the investigation relates to claims that a former reporter at the Murdoch owned newspaper hacked …

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Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Stumped New York Times reporter crowdsources ID of a rare bomb — Senior writer C.J. Chivers (a former Marine) knows his way around battlefield munitions, but for six months he and other experts have been stumped trying to identify an unusual cluster bomb found in Libya.

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

NYPD: Officer who obstructed ‘Times’ photographer during O.W.S. protest got a reprimand — The New York Police Department reprimanded an officer and a sergeant who obstructed journalists covering an Occupy Wall Street demonstration at the World Financial Center back in December, according to Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne.

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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

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