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Times Co. Names Mark Thompson Chief Executive — The New York Times Company has named Mark Thompson, the departing director general of the British Broadcasting Corporation, as its new president and chief executive. — Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the chairman of the Times Company and the newspaper's publisher …
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Michael Barthel / Salon:
Cut, paste, plagiarize — Major media organizations had faith in Fareed Zakaria. CNN gave him 60 minutes each week — several million dollars' worth of time — to say whatever the hell he wanted, more or less. Time gave him a column, too, the one in which (as reported …
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@penenberg, @penenberg, @penenberg, @penenberg and @penenberg
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Fareed Zakaria: ‘People are piling on with every grudge or vendetta’ — Fareed Zakaria's Washington Post column has been suspended for a month. He tells Paul Farhi, “People are piling on with every grudge or vendetta” now that Time and CNN have suspended him for plagiarism.
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NewsBusters.org blogs, The Atlantic Online, American Thinker, The Daily Beast and Poynter
David Frum / The Daily Beast:
A False Charge Against Fareed Zakaria — Is Fareed Zakaria a quote thief? This is the latest charge brought against the CNN host. From both hard evidence and direct personal experience, I can answer: No. Last week, The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg charged that Fareed Zakaria had used work of Jeffrey's without attribution.
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@davidfolkenflik
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Fareed Zakaria Responds to the Charge of Quote-Stealing
Fareed Zakaria Responds to the Charge of Quote-Stealing
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Irene Caselli / Guardian:
Ecuador ‘to grant’ Julian Assange asylum — Ecuador's president Rafael Correa has agreed to give the WikiLeaks founder asylum, according to an official in Quito — Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, has agreed to grant Julian Assange asylum, officials within Ecuador's government have said.
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Telegraph, Bloomberg, WebProNews, Wired, Mashable!, The Atlantic Wire, Gawker, Foreign Policy, CNET and Digital Spy
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Correa: Assange asylum rumors false, no decision yet
Correa: Assange asylum rumors false, no decision yet
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@mashirafael, Wall Street Journal, Reuters and @wikileaks
Estelle Shirbon / Reuters:
Assange seeks London-Quito ticket but Sweden looms
Erik Wemple:
Politico puts ‘stop reading’ sign in article — Politico today tells us that there's an “unmistakable consensus” among Republican Beltway operatives that the choice of Paul Ryan as Mitt Romney's running mate “has only a modest chance of going right — and a huge chance of going horribly wrong.”
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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Romney Campaign Bars Press From Ryan, Adelson Event
Romney Campaign Bars Press From Ryan, Adelson Event
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Politico, Yahoo! News, The Huffington Post and Gawker
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Google acquires media companies without becoming one — Google is “unarguably a media company” following its acquisition of travel-guide publisher Frommer's, Jeff Bercovici writes. “The travel-guide publisher is indisputably a content business, not a platform or a network or anything else more quintessentially Google-y.”
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Los Angeles Times, Skift and Forbes
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Should we trust Google when it comes to piracy and search? — As we reported earlier, Google recently announced that it will start filtering its search results based in part on the number of copyright-takedown requests that have been filed against a site: according to a blog post from the search giant …
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Plagiarism Today, The Week and ReadWriteWeb
Eric Goldman / Ars Technica:
Heavy dose of hyperlinks gets defamation lawsuit against Gizmodo tossed — Judge: links allow readers to decide ultimate truth for themselves. — Eric Goldman is an associate professor of Law at Santa Clara University School of Law and directs that school's High Tech Law Institute.
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@nicknotned, The Atlantic Online and Techdirt
Steve Myers / Poynter:
NY photojournalist gets cameras back after arrest, but not press credentials — Robert Stolarik's cameras were confiscated when he was arrested on Aug. 4 while photographing police on a public street. He has them back now, but he still hasn't received his press credentials.
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NPPA Advocacy Committee, Hit & Run and The Huffington Post
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James Estrin / Lens:
Criminalizing Photography — Mickey H. Osterreicher …
Criminalizing Photography — Mickey H. Osterreicher …
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Media Decoder, Hit & Run and The FJP
Anil Dash:
Stop Publishing Web Pages — Most users on the web spend most of their time in apps. The most popular of those apps, like Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Tumblr and others, are primarily focused on a single, simple stream that offers a river of news which users can easily scroll through, skim over, and click on to read in more depth.
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Boxfish Launches An iPad App To Help You Find What's Hot On TV — There's no shortage of video discovery apps out there. There are some, like Showyou, which aim to usual social signals to tell you what videos are worth watching online; and there are others, like Fanhattan …
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The Next Web and GigaOM
Dylan Byers / Politico:
A debate over the presidential debate moderators — They're old, they're white, and they rarely if ever use Twitter. They are also, arguably, the best people for the job. — Ladies and gentlemen, meet the moderators of the 2012 presidential debates. — On Monday, the Commission …
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TVNewser and The Huffington Post
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
BuzzFeed, The ‘New Kids’ In 2012, Looking For More Buzz At Conventions — NEW YORK — Since leaving Politico in late 2011, BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith has hired several scoop-hungry reporters, launched a D.C. bureau, and helped inject the viral meme site's original political reporting straight …
Ben Fritz / Los Angeles Times:
Leading Variety bidder is owner of National Enquirer — An owner of the National Enquirer's parent company is now the leading bidder for Hollywood trade paper Variety. (Variety website / August 13, 2012) — Avenue Capital, a New York hedge fund whose holdings include the parent company …
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