Mediagazer: Fired KC Star reporter sues, says using press releases isn't plagiarism (Andrew Beaujon/Poynter)

4:25 PM ET, July 5, 2012

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

WikiLeaks Removes Associated Press From List of Media ‘Collaborators’ On Syria Docs — NEW YORK — When WikiLeaks began publishing some 2.4 million Syrian files on Thursday, a trove that it said includes emails from “political figures, ministries and associated companies,” …

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

WikiLeaks starts publishing 2.4m #SyriaFiles and outlines its ‘search interface’ — WikiLeaks announces the start of its publication of ‘more than two million emails from Syrian political figures, ministries and associated companies’ from 680 domains — WikiLeaks has today started publishing …

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Marc Chacksfield / TechRadar: Wikileaks unveils The Syria Files - its biggest data leak yet

AAP: Ecuador finds sex claims against Assange ‘hilarious’ as WikiLeaks announces Syrian leak

Anna Tarkov / Poynter:

Journatic CEO to staff: ‘Bumps are going to be part of the ride’ — Journatic CEO Brian Timpone wants his staff to know that “This American Life” and other reporting on the outsourcing company is “noise” that follows “the change we're forcing” in journalism.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, GigaOM, B2B Memes and Media Nation

Jim Romenesko:
Jake Barnes surfaces again

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Nikki Finke / Deadline.com:

HBO Now Targeting Fox News' Roger Ailes With TV Movie Produced By MSNBC Rivals — EXCLUSIVE: HBO appears obsessed by GOP Conservatives. There have been movies about the 2000 Bush vs Gore election standoff and Sarah Palin and most recently a TV series featuring George W Bush's severed head.

Discussion: Guardian, Capital New York, The Corsair, Los Angeles Times, Mediaite, TVNewser, mediabistro.com, TVWeek.com, The Huffington Post and Inside Cable News

Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:

Murdoch Isn't the First to Consider Renaming The Wall Street Journal — When Rupert Murdoch let it be known in an interview last week that he was thinking of giving The Wall Street Journal a new, streamlined name — WSJ — he was joining a discussion within the newspaper that dates back at least to the end of World War II.

Discussion: FishbowlNY and JIMROMENESKO.COM

Alexander Abad-Santos / The Atlantic Wire:

The Huffington Post Also Got Snookered By Wall Street Journal Fabricator — Yalie Liane Membis got a lot of attention for making up people and quotes during her very brief Wall Street Journal internship, but it turns out she fabricated during her college writing career too, which eventually stung The Huffington Post.

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Fired KC Star reporter sues, says using press releases isn't plagiarism — Steve Penn was fired by the Kansas City Star last July for using material from press releases in his columns. Editors found “more than a dozen examples in Penn's columns dating back to 2008″ of repurposed prose.

Discussion: Gannett Blog and Courthouse News Service

NY Daily News:

Inner Tube: NBC denies report that David Gregory could be on the way out at ‘Meet the Press’ — Network responds quickly to online report and also calls CBS Sunday ratings misleading; Sheryl Lee Ralph plans NYC appearances — NBC gave ‘Meet the Press’ host David Gregory its backing after a report claimed his job was in jeopardy.

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Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:

Visual.ly: New infographics tool to launch ‘later this year’ — Stew Langille, CEO of Visual.ly, a platform for creating, exploring and sharing infographics, discusses plans to roll out additional data visualisation creation options later this year — Copyright: Visual.ly infographic on ‘big data’

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Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:

Ex-Politico WH Correspondent Joe Williams Pleaded Guilty to Assaulting Ex-Wife — It turns out there's another side to Joe Williams, the White House Correspondent and former college football player who recently parted ways with Politico. On May 24 of this year, he pled guilty …

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Europe sues to continue taxing digital content higher than physical — When is a book not a book? When it comes to European tax law. Continental lawmakers may punish France and Luxembourg for reducing VAT on e-books to match their physical equivalents. — In many countries …

Discussion: EU Press Room and ZDNet

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Newsmax opens New York TV studio; first guests include Forbes, Rumsfeld, Pataki — When we profiled Newsmax Media last September, the Florida-based publishing operation had just opened up a New York bureau on Bryant Park and was in the process of building a TV studio there to make the place …