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11:15 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 …

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

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 Sonderman / Poynter:
Guy Adams suspension, now lifted, punctuates Twitter censorship evolution

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

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

Discussion: Wall Street Journal and The New York Observer

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
twitterfail ethics & economics

Discussion: Forbes, Digital Spy, GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, Examiner, The Huffington Post, Reportr.net, Guardian and National Review

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

Discussion: TechCrunch, Forbes, Wired.co.uk, Journalism.co.uk, NBC Universal, Los Angeles Times and BetaNews

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.

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 …

Discussion: PC Magazine

Rebecca Shapiro / The Huffington Post:

The Daily Lays Off 50 Staffers, Announces Content And Design Changes — Rupert Murdoch's daily iPad publication announced its plans to lay off almost a third of its staff on Tuesday. AllThingsD was first to report the news. The Daily, which News Corp. hailed as a wave of the future upon …

Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times:

NBC Olympic live streams aren't live, Phelps flub indicates — NBC's Live Extra app doesn't exactly stream live. The app's streams experience a delay. (NBC / July 31, 2012) — A blunder during one of Michael Phelps' races Tuesday has confirmed that NBC's live stream of Olympic events is not actually live.

Discussion: VentureBeat, CNN, Gizmodo and Beet.TV

John Ourand / SportsBusiness Daily:

Chairman Mark Lazarus defends NBC Sports' decision for tape delay — NBC Sports Chairman Mark Lazarus defended his network's decision to show some marquee Olympic sports, like swimming and gymnastics, on tape delay in NBC's prime-time window. Addressing the topic for the first time since …

Discussion: Associated Press, Mediaite, NY Daily News, The Big Lead, Deadspin, Newsweek and Guardian

Guardian:

News Corporation directors could face charges for neglect of duties — Lawyers for Rupert Murdoch's company have protested against criminal charges amid fears over broadcasting contracts — Directors within Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation could face corporate charges and prosecution …

Discussion: New York Magazine

Erik Larson / Bloomberg: News Corp. Asks To Keep Allegations In Phone-Hacking Case Secret

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: MediaPost, The Atlantic Online, Felix and The FJP

Erin Griffith / PandoDaily:

The Great Digg Experiment Begins Tomorrow — Will It Work? — The promise of Digg was great, and its fall was just as incredible. The company's firesale sent shockwaves across the Web, especially to anyone sitting on a currently hot startup. Here is a Web 2.0 darling …

Discussion: PC Magazine, TPM IdeaLab and Rethink Digg

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
The New Digg Arrives Ahead Of Schedule, Features Tight Facebook And Twitter Integration

Discussion: Digg Blog, VentureBeat and NYT Bits

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: Poynter and FishbowlNY

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: The New Yorker Blog, Gawker, CNN, The Huffington Post and Hot Air

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

Discussion: ABCNEWS, ABCNEWS, Politico, CNN, The Huffington Post, Big News Network.com and Hot Air

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

Daniel Gross / The Daily Beast:

CNN, NBC's “Today,” are big money makers. But you wouldn't know it. — From all the bad press, you'd think CNN and NBC's ‘Today’ are financial sinkholes. Guess again. Daniel Gross reports on why media types love to say the sky is falling. — Have you heard about the big crises at two of America's most established media brands?

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, BuzzFeed and Salon