Mediagazer: CQ Roll Call Bloodbath of Layoffs Hits (Betsy Rothstein/FishbowlDC)

6:20 PM ET, July 31, 2012

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Our approach to Trust & Safety and private information — We want to take a moment to explain some of our general Trust and Safety policies and procedures, and address the specific case at hand that has unfolded over the past 48-hours (we normally don't address matters pertaining …

Amy Willis / The Daily Telegraph:

London Olympics 2012: Twitter 'alerted NBC to British journalist's critical tweets' — Users of the social network vented their anger against Twitter yesterday after Guy Adams, a foreign correspondent for the Independent, was suspended without warning from the site after posting a series …

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

Twitter restores reporter's account, tweet with NBC email remains — Two days after his account was suspended, the U.K. reporter who touched off a media kerfuffle about corporate control of speech is back on Twitter. The Independent's Guy Adams, who made his name bashing NBC's Olympic coverage …

Discussion: AdAge, AllThingsD, @ianbetteridge, @producermatthew, Mashable! and eMedia Vitals

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Guy Adams suspension, now lifted, punctuates Twitter censorship evolution — By now you know the story of Guy Adams — the British journalist for The Independent whose Twitter account was suspended after he torrentially criticized NBC's Olympics coverage and tweeted an executive's email address.

Discussion: Washington Post, VentureBeat, LA Observed, Business Insider, Forbes and The Next Web

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
twitterfail ethics & economics

Discussion: Forbes, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM, National Review, Los Angeles Times, Guardian, Mashable! and Reportr.net

Kashmir Hill / Forbes:
NBC Is The Real Loser In Guy Adams v. Twitter

Discussion: The New York Observer and Wall Street Journal

Guy Adams / The Independent:
I thought the internet age had ended this kind of censorship

Discussion: TechCrunch, Forbes, NBC Universal, Wired.co.uk, Journalism.co.uk, BetaNews and Guardian

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

The Daily Lays Off a Third of Its Staff — The Daily, News Corp.'s attempt to create a digital newspaper for the iPad age, is laying off nearly a third of its staff. — The publisher plans to tell its workers today that it will fire 50 of its 170 employees, according to people familiar with The Daily's plans.

Discussion: Capital New York, The New York Observer, VentureBeat, Guardian, Adweek, AdAge, Forbes, New York Magazine, paidContent, Poynter, The Wrap, Gawker, Mediaite, Politico, FishbowlNY, @mlcalderone, Mashable!, The Verge, FishbowlLA, TUAW, @mlcalderone, @erikmal, 9to5Mac and MacRumors

Jesse Angelo / The Daily:

A Note to Our Readers and Friends — A note to our Daily readers and friends: — The Daily was born of change. A changing technological landscape - the beginning of the tablet and smartphone revolution - made us want to rethink how we create media. And we believe that a healthy product …

Rebecca Shapiro / The Huffington Post: The Daily Lays Off 50 Staffers, Announces Content And Design Changes

Erik Larson / Bloomberg:

News Corp. Asks To Keep Allegations In Phone-Hacking Case Secret — News Corp. (NWSA)'s British publishing unit asked a judge to keep secret a series of new claims being made by victims of phone hacking at its News of the World tabloid in preparation for a group trial scheduled for February.

Guardian:
News Corporation directors could face charges for neglect of duties

Discussion: New York Magazine

Josh Halliday / Guardian: Sun journalist arrested in Operation Tuleta investigation into stolen phones

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

paidContent 50: The world's most successful digital media companies — Digital media is exploding. Half of us now read news on tablets, virtually all music tracks are bought electronically, and nearly a tenth of Americans are ditching cable for internet TV.

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, NetNewsCheck Latest and The FJP

Jim Romenesko:

Media General gives pink slips to 75 employees — Media General — “smaller, more focused” after selling its newspapers (but for the Tampa Tribune) to Warren Buffett — is dismissing 75 employees today. CEO Marshall Morton tells his staff: When we sold our newspapers last month …

Discussion: FishbowlNY and Poynter

Steve Myers / Poynter:

WNYC: No reason to believe that Jonah Lehrer's work for ‘Radiolab’ is compromised — In addition to being a bestselling author and a New Yorker blogger, Jonah Lehrer was a frequent guest on WNYC's “Radiolab,” appearing 17 times. He quit his job at The New Yorker after a journalist revealed …

Discussion: MOTHERBOARD, Current.org Blog and BuzzFeed

David Daley / Salon:
Jayson Blair: Jonah Lehrer's story reminds me of my own

Discussion: Gawker, The Daily Beast, Poynter, FishbowlNY, JIMROMENESKO.COM, BuzzFeed, New York Magazine, The Wrap and WWD

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Mitt Romney aide's gaffe exposes rift — In one week abroad, Mitt Romney has managed to enrage both the Brits and the Palestinians. Now add to that roster his own press corps. — Over seven days in the UK, Israel and Poland, Romney held just one media availability for the U.S. traveling press …

Discussion: CNN, The New Yorker Blog, theGrio and Hot Air

Emily Friedman / ABC News:
Mitt Romney Spokesman Tells Reporters ‘Kiss My...’ at Polish Holy Site

Discussion: Politico, CNN, ABCNEWS, ABCNEWS, The Huffington Post, Chickaboomer, Hot Air and Guardian

Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:

CQ Roll Call Bloodbath of Layoffs Hits — CQ Roll Call informed some 30 employees this morning that they no longer have jobs. As layoffs, they will receive severance packages. — For days the news was imminent that more heads were going to roll on the sales side of the publication …

Discussion: mediabistro.com and MediaPost

McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:

Why Is America's Best Magazine So Bad At The Internet? — The New Yorker finally got serious about the web, and then Jonah Lehrer happened. “We're proceeding with cautious intent,” says Thompson. — The editor of The New Yorker's website said Tuesday that the embarassing resignation …

Discussion: @blakehounshell and @attackerman