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Guardian:
Brooks among six Weeting arrests — Former Sun editor held by Operation Weeting detectives on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice — Rebekah Brooks is among six people arrested by Scotland Yard detectives on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice …
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@skymartinbrunt, Reuters, New York Times, The Independent, Deadline.com, Press Gazette, Gawker, The Wrap, The Awl, content.met.police.uk, @davidfolkenflik and Vanity Fair
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Twitter Blog:
Welcoming the Posterous team to the flock — Today we are welcoming a very talented group from Posterous to Twitter. This team has built an innovative product that makes sharing across the web and mobile devices simple—a goal we share. Posterous engineers, product managers and others …
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Fast Company, Free Press, Telegraph, CNET, Softpedia News, The Verge, VatorNews, Bigmouthmedia Search …, Wired, Guardian, Business Insider, PC Magazine, The Next Web, VentureBeat, One Man & His Blog, Forbes, Mashable!, ReadWriteWeb, Engadget, TechCrunch, SiliconFilter, GigaOM, New York Times, WebProNews and AllThingsD
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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Twitter has acquired shortform blogging company Posterous, Spaces will remain up and running for now — Blogging and sharing company Posterous has announced via its company blog that it has been snagged by Twitter in an apparent ‘acqui-hire’, with Twitter interested mostly in the people, not the product.
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Betabeat and The Official Posterous Space
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
I'm not a “curator” — Curator's Code is an attempt to codify and standardize “via” links and attribution from link blogs and aggregators with two new symbols: — á"¥ means “via” — means “hat tip” — It's completely misguided. — First of all, readers aren't going to learn what those symbols mean.
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Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, Gizmodo, The Verge and ReadWriteWeb
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Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
We Don't Need No Stinking Seal of Approval from the Blog Police
We Don't Need No Stinking Seal of Approval from the Blog Police
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Erik Wemple, Mashable!, WebProNews, Spiersblr, JIMROMENESKO.COM, FishbowlNY, New York Times, Boing Boing and @antderosa
James R. Hagerty / Wall Street Journal:
When Mom Goes Viral — After Review of Grand Forks Olive Garden, Marilyn Hagerty, 85, Is Talk of Social Media — Some people pursue celebrity. Others stumble into it as they are rushing off to bridge club. — My 85-year-old mom, Marilyn Hagerty, a newspaper columnist, is in the latter category.
Discussion:
JIMROMENESKO.COM
Allie Compton / The Huffington Post:
NYT Editor Descends On South By Southwest — The media world has been going through a period of intense change for over a decade, but, as New York Times editor Jill Abramson noted on Monday, not everyone loves that. “One thing I've learned from being at the Times is no one likes change of any kind …
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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
NY Times Editor Jill Abramson Stays Humble at SXSW
NY Times Editor Jill Abramson Stays Humble at SXSW
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NetNewsCheck Latest and Poynter
Wall Street Journal:
Intel Developing Web-Based TV Service — Intel Corp. is developing an Internet-based TV service that it hopes to sell to U.S. consumers, a strategic shift for the chip maker that makes it the latest technology company to look at a foray in the pay-TV business.
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VideoNuze Analysis, ZDNet, ITProPortal, PC Magazine, Bits, Forbes, CNET, The Verge, GigaOM, Multichannel, Business Insider, Engadget and Gizmodo
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Aereo files countersuit against broadcasters — (Reuters) - Aereo Inc, a new online television service backed by Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp, has filed a countersuit against several broadcasters, seeking a declaration that it does not infringe their copyrights.
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Adweek, PC Magazine and TVSpy
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Ari Levy / Bloomberg:
IAC Chairman Diller Sees Aereo TV Service in Up to 100 Cities Within Year
IAC Chairman Diller Sees Aereo TV Service in Up to 100 Cities Within Year
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Betabeat, TVWeek.com, TechCrunch, Light Reading, Adweek, CNET and Bloomberg
The Huffington Post:
CNN Lifts Roland Martin's Suspension — CNN announced on Monday that it has lifted its suspension on political analyst Roland Martin. — According to Fishbowl DC, the network announced the news during a conference call Monday morning. — Martin was suspended shortly after Super Bowl Sunday …
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Mediaite, FishbowlDC, TVNewser and Inside Cable News
Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
Apple TV Production Starts In May, Goes On Sale At Year End, Says Jefferies — Apple is going into “full-scale production” of a television in May or June, and will start selling it at the end of the year, says Jefferies analyst Peter Misek in a note this morning.
Discussion:
MacRumors
Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:
FT journalists to walk out today as pay talks break down — Around 250 journalists at the Financial Times will stop work for two hours this afternoon after talks over ongoing pay dispute failed to result in a deal. NUJ members at the FT held talks with senior management at the Advisory …
Sean Roach / CJR:
The Constant Gardener — My two years tending AOL's hyperlocal experiment — My employment with Patch started with a handshake and a promise that I would be called with a job offer in the next few days. I had met with Patch's editor in chief, Brian Farnham, at the company's New York headquarters.
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Street Fight and Poynter
Jeanine Poggi / AdAge:
Netflix Quietly Launches TV Network-Branded Pages — Could Complicate Stance as Complementary to TV Distributors — Comcast, cablevision, cox and ... Netflix? — Netflix has been careful to describe itself as a complement to cable distributors, but as it quietly tests network-branded pages …
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@brizilla, New York Post and Business Insider
CNN:
FCC should clear Limbaugh from airwaves — Limbaugh has long history of hate speech. FCC should ask: Are stations carrying him are acting “in public interest,” writers say. — Editor's note: Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem are the Co-Founders of the Women's Media Center.
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Speakeasy, Christian Science Monitor, WebProNews, Forbes, New York Times, The Daily Caller, The Huffington Post, Free Press and Chickaboomer
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
EXCLUSIVE: 141 Companies Drop Advertising From Rush Limbaugh
EXCLUSIVE: 141 Companies Drop Advertising From Rush Limbaugh
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Cagle Post, The Huffington Post and Mediaite
Joanna Walters / Guardian:
Mourners say farewell to Colvin — Rupert Murdoch among those at Long Island funeral for war correspondent who was killed trying to escape Homs shelling — Marie Colvin, the Sunday Times war correspondent whose reputation for covering difficult stories in the world's most dangerous places …
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Press Gazette
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