Mediagazer: UPI shirks responsibility (Curtis Brainard/CJR)

11:50 PM ET, August 17, 2012

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Twitter's API changes will have a real impact on news developers — Twitter's newly fortified mission to “deliver a consistent Twitter experience,” which is FREAKING OUT the tech world right now, will also force some news organizations to re-examine their code.

Discussion: Techland, BBC, TUAW and GigaOM

Michael Lee / ZDNet:
Twitter edges out third party clients with tighter API rules

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Board member of University of Georgia paper steps down after call for resignation — Ed Stamper has resigned from the board of the University of Georgia's student newspaper, The Red & Black, following a dispute about the paper's independence. At a meeting Thursday, student journalists had called for his resignation.

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Georgia student journalists begin producing alternate publication

Discussion: Gawker, The Huffington Post, Red & Dead and Gawker

Foster Kamer / The New York Observer:

Layoffs Hit Editorial Staff at The Village Voice — Layoffs are hitting the editorial staff at The Village Voice today, and they're hitting some of the most widely-read staff writers in the office. The Observer has heard from multiple sources familiar with the situation that the bad news …

Discussion: AAN

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

News Corp.'s IGN Head Roy Bahat Leaves — Roy Bahat, who heads up News Corp.'s IGN Web unit, is leaving the company. — Bahat had spent more than a year trying to engineer a spinoff of the business, which publishes Web sites that cater to dudes who like video games and other stuff dudes like.

Discussion: The Wrap

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 Week, Business Insider, Techland, The Next Web and Daring Fireball

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Apple, Microsoft, Google and the sad state of TV

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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.

Discussion: Gawker, The New York Observer, BBC, Guardian, ThinkProgress, World Now, Instagram Blog, Capital New York, PAPERMAG, Wired and GalleyCat

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Facebook Passed Yahoo To Become The Second Largest Video Site In The U.S. In July — comScore's monthly online video data is in and it looks Facebook passed Yahoo in July to become the second largest video site in the U.S. behind Google/YouTube. According to comScore …

Discussion: comScore, Inc., Home Media Magazine, getthefive.com, Inside Facebook and VentureBeat

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 …

Discussion: The Huffington Post and mediabistro.com

Brent Lang / The Wrap:

Tess Vigeland Steps Down as Host of ‘Marketplace Money’ — Fans of “Marketplace Money” will have to get used to a new voice guiding them through the tangle of financial news. — Tess Vigeland will step down as host of the show at the end of November, American Public Media (APM), which funds the program, said Friday.

Discussion: LA Observed

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

Oracle, Google file list of paid journalists — A federal judge last week wrote that he was “concerned” Oracle and Google had paid journalists and bloggers to comment on their highly-publicized intellectual property trial and ordered them to provide a list of names. The responses are now in.

Discussion: AllThingsD and CNET

Curtis Brainard / CJR:

UPI shirks responsibility — The plagiarism, or problematic paraphrasing, parade continued on Thursday as several reporters from Science News complained on Facebook that the wire service UPI had cribbed their stories. — Reporting on the charges, the Knight Science Journalism Tracker's Paul Raeburn laid …

Discussion: MIT and Poynter

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.

Discussion: Erik Wemple, Mediaite and Forbes

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Ralston leaving Vegas ‘Sun’, launching site — Some big news out of Nevada: Jon Ralston, the state's top political commentator, is leaving the Las Vegas Sun. — Ralston now plans to launch his own political commentary site. “There's about to be a new site in Nevada to get political info …

Discussion: Las Vegas Review-Journal, Bloomberg, Las Vegas Sun News and @ralstonflash