Mediagazer: Media take a prim view of Pussy Riot (Amanda Holpuch/Guardian)

1:35 PM ET, August 17, 2012

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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Because That's Where The Content Is — When asked why he robbed banks, legend has it that Willie Sutton said, “because that's where the money is.” — I'm reminded of this quote today when reading the reports that Apple is in talks with the cable operators about their television plans.

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Business Insider, Techland, The Next Web, Daring Fireball and Fortune

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Apple, Microsoft, Google and the sad state of TV — The latest news on Apple's plans for the future of television is that the company is in talks with big pay TV operators to carry their live programming. This would turn a future Apple TV product into a kind of set-top box, reported the Wall Street Journal Wednesday.

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Wall Street Journal:
Apple's TV Vision: Sharing, Full On-Demand, Icons

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Amanda Holpuch / Guardian:

Media take a prim view of Pussy Riot — News organizations pussy out of using controversial Russian punk rock band's name in coverage of their convictions — The conviction of three members of the punk band Pussy Riot has caused consternation throughout the world - and a dilemma for prudish news organizations.

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Michael Lee / ZDNet:

Twitter edges out third party clients with tighter API rules — Summary: Twitter has revealed upcoming changes to the next versions of its API, which will tighten the restrictions around what a developers build for the microblogging platform can and can't do. — Michael Lee

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Storify:

Storify and Twitter's evolving developer guidelines — Some of our users wondered what Twitter's latest change for developers means for Storify. A top Twitter exec says we're fine - in fact, we're singled out as a good example. And the love we got from our concerned users? Priceless. Thank you.

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Gail Shister / TVNewser:

For Female Journalists, Another Significant ‘First’ This Election Season On PBS — When CNN's Candy Crowley on Monday was named moderator for one of the Presidential debates, it drew headlines. Breaking a 20-year dry spell for women will do that. — So why the underwhelming response …

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Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:

Phil Griffin Talks MSNBC Convention Coverage, Says CNN Is ‘Desperate’ — The 2012 presidential election has already become a heated battle. It's no surprise, then, that the fight between rival cable news networks to capture viewer eyeballs is getting just as intense.

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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Olbermann Who? MSNBC Abandons Neutrality Pose For Convention Coverage

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Reuters:

New York Times Co CEO stands to make $5 million next year — (Reuters) - Mark Thompson, the newly appointed chief executive of The New York Times Co (NYT.N), stands to make up to $5 million by 2013, according to a regulatory filing on Friday. — Thompson, outgoing director-general …

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Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
New York Times Has Enough Cash To Go Private

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
At the ‘Times,’ a new mission statement

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Thrillist Raises $13 Million From Oak, Lerer Ventures, Pilot Group — In 2008, Fred Harman and Oak Investment Partners bet big on Ken Lerer and the Huffington Post, and that worked out pretty well. Now Harman is putting his money into another Lerer project.

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Georgia student journalists begin producing alternate publication — Student journalists who walked out from the newsroom of the University of Georgia's independent student newspaper the Red & Black on Wednesday returned for an off-the-record meeting Thursday afternoon with publisher Harry Montevideo and a board member.

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Andrew Jacobs / New York Times:

China's News Media Are Making Inroads in Africa — NAIROBI, Kenya — China's investment prowess and construction know-how is widely on display in this long-congested African capital. A $200 million ring road is being built and financed by Beijing. The international airport is undergoing …

Discussion: CJR

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

More Guardian paid content - photos go freemium — Slowly but surely, The Guardian is starting to charge for more of its digital content. An upgrade to its popular Eyewitness photography iPad app last night adds a new professional photographer tip for each daily photo - and an Eyewitness Premium option.

Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:

Fareed Zakaria Cleared By Time, CNN In Plagiarism Investigation — Fareed Zakaria is off the hook at both Time magazine and CNN after he was accused of plagiarism last Friday. — Zakaria, Time's editor-at-large, was suspended for a month over his most recent column, which shared suspicious similarities …

Discussion: Erik Wemple, CNN and NewsBusters.org