Mediagazer: Sherrod Brown Hugging His Wife In Photo Prompts Conservative Blogger's Conspiracy Theory (Amanda Terkel/The Huffington Post)

9:35 AM ET, July 18, 2012

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Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:

For NBCNews.com, a new website comes with new privacy standards — It's unlikely that many news consumers will read the fine print that comes with the splashy rebranding from MSNBC.com to NBCNews.com. — The new website's privacy policy was adopted to “align with NBC Universal standards in privacy …

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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Months of Transition Ahead for NBC News Online

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Jim Romenesko:

Union: NYT wants to negotiate separate contracts for print and digital — The Newspaper Guild of New York says New York Times negotiators “inexplicably dropped a bomb on the process today by presenting two new comprehensive proposals aimed at negotiating two separate contracts: print and digital.”

Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:

New York Times Contract Talks: Union Fury As Paper Proposes Separate Plans For Print And Digital — The long and contentious contract negotiations at the New York Times took an unexpected twist on Tuesday when the paper's management presented two different proposals for print and digital employees.

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Twitter, Reddit and the newsroom of the future — By now, many people are becoming used to Twitter as a source of breaking news, whether it's a report about the death of Osama bin Laden or details about the Arab Spring uprisings in Egypt. But it's still fascinating to come across new examples …

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Why Marissa Mayer may not be a good fit for Yahoo — In a bombshell announcement that sent shock waves through the entire technology sector, former Google executive Marissa Mayer has become the new chief executive officer of Yahoo:the fifth CEO the faded web giant has had in five years.

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Amy Tennery / The Jane Dough:
Howard Kurtz Doesn't Understand Sexism — Or The Marissa Mayer Phenomenon

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Ten Questions for New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer (This Won't Hurt a Bit! Okay, Just a Little.)

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Margaret Sullivan / The Buffalo News:

As editor (or public editor), does being a woman matter? Of course — Over the past couple of days, as I've been interviewed about my new job as Public Editor of the New York Times, a few interviewers have gingerly raised the question of gender. Essentially, they're asking this …

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Dave Winer:
What is a Public Editor? — The NY Times, as far as I know …

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Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Guardian's ‘digital-first’ means more losses, more lay-offs — Guardian News & Media is re-opening its voluntary redundancy programme after its “digital-first” survival strategy's first year resulted in much higher company losses. — Operating loss grew 42 percent from £33.1 million …

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Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:
Guardian and Observer report losses of £44.2m

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Study: News websites link to themselves 91% of the time — Mainstream news organizations use hyperlinks to add context to their pieces, says a study by Mark Coddington at the University of Texas at Austin. Independent bloggers are more likely to use links socially or as a way to frame their arguments.

Jeff Jarvis / Guardian:

Journalists who allow quote approval become complicit in political spin — It may be done in other nations, but giving in to demands for tweaks here and there turns newspapers into virtual propaganda — It's shocking enough for The New York Times to report that it and other news organizations …

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Steve Myers / Poynter:
AP doesn't let sources approve quotes beforehand

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Erik Wemple:
New York Times reviews quote-approval policy

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Andy Borowitz / The New Yorker:

SHOCKER: The New Yorker Acquires the Borowitz Report — After eleven years of writing nothing but fake news at the Borowitz Report, I have to tell you something that actually happened. — I'm excited to announce that The New Yorker has acquired the Borowitz Report.

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Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:

Why ‘future of journalism’ confabs fail — After recently attending the latest in the never-ending series of “future of journalism” conferences, I finally realized why they all fail: They don't include the right people. — While these well-intended yakfests are rich in whining and dining ops …

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

Associated Press plugs into music hub Audiosocket — The Associated Press continues to evolve from a news service to a broader, one-stop shop for a broad variety of content. AP now has audio offerings thanks to a new alliance with indie music licensor Audiosocket.

Charles E. Schumer / Wall Street Journal:

Memo to DOJ: Drop the Apple E-Books Suit — Restoring Amazon's monopoly in digital publishing is not in the public interest. — Recently the Department of Justice filed suit against Apple and major publishers, alleging that they colluded to raise prices in the digital books market.

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Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:

Sherrod Brown Hugging His Wife In Photo Prompts Conservative Blogger's Conspiracy Theory — An eagle-eyed conservative blogger recently spotted a photograph of Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) looking cozy with a woman. And not just any woman — a journalist, in fact.