Mediagazer: Is This Anonymous Group Behind the New York Times WikiLeaks Hoax? [UPDATED] (Jessica Roy/Betabeat)

6:35 PM ET, July 29, 2012

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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

#nbcfail economics — Reading the #nbcfail hashtag has been at least as entertaining as much of NBC's coverage of the Olympics. It's also enlightening — economically enlightening. — There's the obvious: — * The people formerly known as the audience have a voice and boy are they using …

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

NBC Hit For Editing Opening Ceremony Segment Seen As ‘Victims Tribute’ — NEW YORK — NBC has come under fire in the British press for editing out a performance during the London Olympics opening ceremony that has been interpreted by some as a tribute to victims of the “7/7” terrorist attacks that rocked that city in 2005.

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Reuters:
NBC gets bumper Olympic ratings despite complaints

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Bryan Bishop / The Verge:
NBC insults viewer intelligence, says Olympic Opening Ceremony is too ‘complex’ for online audience

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Jessica Roy / Betabeat:

Is This Anonymous Group Behind the New York Times WikiLeaks Hoax? [UPDATED] — The fake op-ed in question. (Photo: opinion-nytimes.com) — Early this morning, a pro-WikiLeaks op-ed purporting to be penned by former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller cropped up online.

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Terri Thornton / MediaShift:

London 2012: The Thrills (and Agony) of the Social Olympics — It's an Olympic achievement. Not just the London Games, but the social media infrastructure behind them. — People definitely engaged online during the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver. But new apps, better mobile devices …

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Reuters:

Don't tweet if you want TV, London fans told — (Reuters) - Sports fans attending the London Olympics were told on Sunday to avoid non-urgent text messages and tweets during events because overloading of data networks was affecting television coverage. — Commentators on Saturday's men's …

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Jonathan Stray / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Who should see what when? Three principles for personalized news — I really don't know how a news editor should choose what stories to put in front of people, because I don't think it's possible to cram the entire world into headlines. The publisher of a major international newspaper once told …

Steven Rosenbaum / CJR:

How a documentary filmmaker was (temporarily) foiled by the copyright cops — How a documentary filmmaker was (temporarily) foiled by the copyright cops — It began with an invitation to present at a TEDX event in Grand Rapids, MI. I wanted to share with the TED audience the complex relationship between …

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

How BuzzFeed wants to reinvent wire stories for social media — The wire story is an atomic element of news: It's the basic material upon which more journalism can be built. But wire stories, as a compact unit for getting out the basics of an updating story, are also a commodity.

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Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:

With its new pop-out markets widget, The Wall Street Journal is after super-niche readers — The Wall Street Journal quietly launched a new function last month, a pop-out Markets Data window that puts a real-time markets ticker in the corner of your screen.

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Mail Online's 69% revenue growth suggests paywalls not the answer — Is the website's £27m in projected revenue this year already taking it levels of turnover that paywall-only sites cannot match? — Been bored today? Chances are you logged into Mail Online. Seven clicks later, you remembered who you were.

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Jim Romenesko:

St. Louis Post-Dispatch lays off 23 employees — A three-paragraph story on the Post-Dispatch website says the Lee-owned newspaper has laid off 23 staffers from the newsroom, advertising and production. I reported yesterday that four Post-Dispatch newsroom managers were called at home …

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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Why Twitter's move into TV could be a recipe for disaster — There's been plenty of debate recently about the extent to which Twitter is a media entity and/or a technology business, but there is little question that the company sees its future as controlling more and more of the content …

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