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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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CJR, @lauraglu, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, The Next Web, @guyadams, Poynter, JIMROMENESKO.COM, MediaFile, Business Insider, The Verge, @producermatthew, GeekWire, VentureBeat, Mediaite, CNET, About.com Journalism, The Next Web, Guardian, Mashable!, The Independent, New York Magazine, Telegraph, The Awl, TechCrunch, LA Observed, Deadspin, Skift.com, The Daily Caller, Betabeat, The Raw Story, The Consumerist, Erik Wemple, Deadspin, The Independent, Search Engine Land and Techdirt
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Guy Adams suspension, now lifted, punctuates Twitter censorship evolution
Guy Adams suspension, now lifted, punctuates Twitter censorship evolution
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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
NBC Is The Real Loser In Guy Adams v. Twitter
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Wall Street Journal and The New York Observer
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
twitterfail ethics & economics
twitterfail ethics & economics
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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
I thought the internet age had ended this kind of censorship
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TechCrunch, Forbes, Wired.co.uk, Journalism.co.uk, Los Angeles Times, NBC Universal 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.
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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Associated Press, Mediaite, The Big Lead, Deadspin, Newsweek and Guardian
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 …
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PC Magazine, TPM IdeaLab and Mashable!
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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
The New Digg Arrives Ahead Of Schedule, Features Tight Facebook And Twitter Integration
The New Digg Arrives Ahead Of Schedule, Features Tight Facebook And Twitter Integration
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Digg Blog, NYT Bits and VentureBeat
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 …
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New York Magazine
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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.
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MediaPost, The Atlantic Online, Felix and The FJP
Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
NBC Takes Steps to Avoid More Spoiler Promotions — The spoiler “Today” show promo that told viewers that Missy Franklin had won the 100-meter backstroke during Monday night's Olympic broadcast was not screened before it was shown, an NBC executive said on Tuesday.
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Daily Mail, The Huffington Post and NY Daily News
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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 …
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Poynter and FishbowlNY
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?
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 …
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@blakehounshell and @attackerman
Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:
Defense of Ridiculed Vogue Profile of Assad Leads to More Ridicule — “Syria. The name itself sounded sinister, like syringe or hiss.” — That's what the author Joan Juliet Buck wrote in the Aug. 6 edition of Newsweek in an article describing why she felt uneasy profiling Syria's first lady, Asma al-Assad, in Vogue last year.
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Guardian, New York Magazine and The Daily Beast
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 …
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The New Yorker Blog, CNN, theGrio, NewsBusters.org blogs, Hot Air and Gawker
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Emily Friedman / ABC News:
Mitt Romney Spokesman Tells Reporters ‘Kiss My...’ at Polish Holy Site
Mitt Romney Spokesman Tells Reporters ‘Kiss My...’ at Polish Holy Site
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ABCNEWS, ABCNEWS, Politico, CNN, The Huffington Post, Hot Air and Big News Network.com