Mediagazer: Voice denied accreditation for Olympic stadium (Lisa O'Carroll/Guardian)

7:05 AM ET, July 18, 2012

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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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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 …

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

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Amy Tennery / The Jane Dough:

Howard Kurtz Doesn't Understand Sexism — Or The Marissa Mayer Phenomenon — Yesterday, Yahoo announced that Marissa Mayer, a high-powered Google executive, would become its new CEO. This was historic on a number of levels: For starters, she joined a group of just 18 other women who are currently CEOs at Fortune 500 companies.

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Why Marissa Mayer may not be a good fit for Yahoo

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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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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.

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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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 …

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.”

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Voice denied accreditation for Olympic stadium — Sports editor at Britain's oldest and biggest black newspaper describes British Olympic Association decision as ‘outrageous’ — The Voice, Britain's oldest and biggest black newspaper, has been denied accreditation to the Olympic stadium despite …

Tiemoko Diallo / Reuters:

Mali's media strike over attacks on journalists — (Reuters) - Mali's private press, radio and television carried out a one-day strike on Tuesday to protest at attacks on journalists critical of soldiers behind a coup in March and who still hold sway in the capital of the West African state.

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.

Larry Kramer / C-Scape:

How Print Can Help Lead The Way Into The Digital Future — Today we launched the “TV On The Web” section of the USA Today Life Section. And we did so in the printed newspaper first. — Sounds a bit backwards, you say? Actually, it's a great example of how various forms of media can compliment each other.

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Dave Winer:

What is a Public Editor? — The NY Times, as far as I know, invented the idea of a public editor, so I suppose it's up to them to decide what one is. That would be fair. But life isn't fair. — A public editor should be, imho, the representative of The Public, on the payroll of a news organization.