Mediagazer: NBC Links Up With Storify For Real-Time Curated Olympics Coverage Across Today.com And Owned Station Sites (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

2:45 PM ET, July 25, 2012

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

NBC Links Up With Storify For Real-Time Curated Olympics Coverage Across Today.com And Owned Station Sites — On the heels of a deal with Facebook to promote Olympic conversations on NBC's Facebook page, the broadcast network today is taking one more step to improve its social standing during the big sports event.

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

WaPo journo shared drafts with sources — Forrest Wilder of the Texas Observer is out with a pretty damning report today about a Washington Post reporter who shared drafts of a story with his sources and subjects and even allowed them to suggest edits, some of which ended up in the article.

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Will Oremus / Slate:

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Associated Press:
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Reuters:

New York Times drops BlackBerry app — (Reuters) - Research in Motion's BlackBerry users can no longer use the official New York Times app to read news stories over their devices, in a fresh blow to the maker of the smartphone once considered an essential tool for business professionals.