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Telegraph:
Marie Colvin killed: Syrian forces had pledged to kill ‘any journalist who set foot on Syrian soil’ — Syrian forces murdered journalist Marie Colvin after pledging to kill “any journalist who set foot on Syrian soil”, it has emerged. — The 55-year-old Sunday Times reporter …
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Committee to Protect …, @ramsaysky, The Daily What, The Journalism Foundation and Jon Slattery
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New York Times:
Two Western Journalists Killed in Syria Shelling — CAIRO — Two Western journalists, one American and one French, were killed early Wednesday as forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad pursued a deadly bombardment of the central city of Homs, according to activists and officials.
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Telegraph, Newsday, BBC, CNN, msnbc.com, fleet street fox, Tim Porter, Committee to Protect …, The Lede, Charlie Beckett, Gawker, The Week, Washington Post, Media Decoder, The New Yorker Blog, @billneelyitv, Prof Chris Daly's Blog, Capital New York, Press Gazette, Reuters, ITV, Guardian, @thetimes, Muck Rack, BLOGGING via TYPEWRITER, @laurapitel and The Huffington Post
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Syria Correspondent Wanted Her Reporting Read Outside Pay Walls — Before her death on Wednesday in the besieged Syrian city of Homs, the veteran war correspondent Marie Colvin voiced a common frustration for journalists who are reporting from distant areas about conflicts that can feel remote to readers back home.
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New York Times, Poynter, Online NewsHour, The Wall Blog and CBS New York
Michael Rundle / The Huffington Post - UK:
Syrian Minister ‘Unaware Foreign Journalists Were In Country’ After Deadly Shelling — Syria has said they were unaware foreign journalists were in the country after an American and French journalist were killed on Wednesday. Marie Colvin, a veteran correspondent for the Sunday Times …
Kerri Macdonald / Lens:
Parting Glance: Rémi Ochlik
Discussion:
The Huffington Post, New York Times and Guardian
Lindsey Hilsum / Channel 4:
My friend, Marie Colvin
Discussion:
Guardian, blogs.telegraph.co.uk and The Huffington Post
Erika Solomon / Reuters:
Syria asks foreign journalists to report to government
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@producermatthew
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Gannett Building Paywalls Around All Its Papers Except USA Today — The vogue for digital paywalls sweeping the news business has made it all the way to the top: Gannett, the nation's largest newspaper publisher, is planning to switch over all of its 80 community newspapers to a paid model …
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Media Decoder, Jon Slattery, @jackshafer, 10,000 Words and Nashville Scene
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Cherie Blair to sue News International — Tony Blair's wife to take action against Glenn Mulcaire and NI over the alleged hacking of her phone by News of the World — Cherie Blair, the wife of the former prime minister, is suing News International and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire …
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Church hacking case ‘not resolved’ — Despite reports of settlement of up to £500,000, star's manager says talks with News of the World publisher are still ongoing — Charlotte Church has not yet settled her phone-hacking case against Rupert Murdoch's defunct tabloid the News of the World …
Jim Romenesko:
Did CNC ‘cause problems’ for MacArthur's City Hall friends? — Chicago journalist Geoff Dougherty claims the Chicago News Cooperative and MacArthur Foundation relationship went sour because CNC “had enough reporters and know-how to cause problems with MacArthur buddies at City Hall.” He writes:
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Time Out Chicago
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Ryan Chittum / CJR:
The IRS and the Chicago News Cooperative
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Reflections of a Newsosaur, CBS Chicago and MediaJobsDaily
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Sam Zell Blames Tribune Failure on ‘Greedy’ Journalists. — Sam Zell. Credit: Scott Eells/Bloomberg via Getty Images — Sam Zell must miss being the most hated man in the newspaper industry. Why else would the ever-pungent real estate billionaire be speaking up about his disastrous time running Tribune Co., all this time later?
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Gawker, LA Biz Observed and New York Times
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Amazon Yanks 5,000 Kindle Titles In Fight Over Terms — Updated: IPG's full memo to publishers on page 2. — Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has turned off the buy button on nearly 5,000 Kindle titles from distributor Independent Publishers Group after IPG refused to capitulate to Amazon's demand for better terms.
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Publishers Lunch, Bits, WebProNews, Electronista, Boing Boing and eBookNewser, more at Techmeme »
Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:
FT facing discrimination claims and strike action — The Financial Times is facing an employment tribunal over discrimination allegations involving journalists working on the Chinese version of the FT website, according to the NUJ. — It is also facing the possibility of strike action on Friday in a separate dispute over pay.
Evan McMorris-Santoro / Talking Points Memo:
Romney Campaign Scrubs Criticism from Editorial Before Sending It Out — Romney Campaign Scrubs Criticism From Editorial Before Sending It Out — There are a lot of kind words for Mitt Romney on the Detroit News editorial page Wednesday. But by trying to hide the few words that weren't very nice …
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detroitnews.com, Guardian and The Caucus
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David Holmes / Fast Company:
Lindles: Jeremy Lin, Amazon Kindle, And The Rise Of Insta-Authors — Jeremy Lin has inspired a lot of rabid fans, magazine features, and six-figure book deal offers. But he's also fueled a new breed of lightening-fast ebook authors. Alan Goldsher, author of “Linsanity …
Discussion:
Speakeasy, GalleyCat, Capital New York, mediabistro.com and Digital Book World
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Whitney Houston Funeral Drew Millions on TV and Online — Millions of television and Web viewers spent time Saturday afternoon watching the funeral service for Whitney Houston, the pop music icon who died a week earlier. — CNN was the biggest beneficiary of the viewer vigil, according to Nielsen ratings.
Discussion:
Pew Research Center, The Wrap, FishbowlNY, Capital New York, TVNewser, Digital Spy, Chickaboomer, Mediaite, Multichannel and Broadcasting & Cable
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Vanity Fair:
Reed Hastings on Netflix's Recent Rise and Fall — Still bloodied by one of the worst self-inflicted corporate disasters in recent memory—last year's $12 billion wipeout—Netflix C.E.O. Reed Hastings remains adamant about his goal: moving from red envelopes to streaming video.
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