Mediagazer: Leveson ‘loading a gun’ against press industry, warns Indy editor (Lisa O'Carroll/Guardian)

2:20 PM ET, August 29, 2012

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

Yahoo News fires David Chalian — TAMPA, Fla. — Yahoo News has fired Washington bureau chief David Chalian after he was caught on a hot-mic during an online video broadcast today saying that Mitt Romney and his wife Ann had no problem with African Americans suffering as a result of Hurricane Isaac …

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Noah Rothman / Mediaite:

Yahoo! News Washington Bureau Chief: Romneys ‘Happy To Have A Party When Black People Drown’ — In an ABC News/Yahoo! online broadcast of the Republican National Convention, Yahoo! News' Washington bureau chief David Chalian was captured on tape joking to colleagues that Republican presidential …

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

CNN's Exquisitely Awkward Spot — You've probably seen that last night a convention attendee was ejected from the hall for pelting a black CNN camerawomen with nuts and saying the words “this is how we feed animals.” Follow up reports this morning say actually two people were ejected.

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The Huffington Post:

Republican Attendees Thrown Out After Racist Attack On CNN Worker — Two attendees at the Republican National Convention were thrown out of the convention center in Tampa on Tuesday after throwing nuts at a black CNN camerawoman and saying, “this is how we feed the animals.”

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Leveson ‘loading a gun’ against press industry, warns Indy editor — The editor of the Independent has said he fears that Lord Justice Leveson is “loading a gun” against the industry as he prepares his final report and recommendations following his inquiry into press culture and ethics.

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Leveson rulings expected to include ‘excoriating’ criticism of the press

Discussion: @benfenton, @benfenton, @dansabbagh, @joshhalliday and @lisaocarroll

Press Association:
Patrick Foster, Former Times Journalist, Arrested Over Hacking Of NightJack Blogger's Emails

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Severin Carrell / Guardian:
Phone-hacking police arrest former News of the World Scotland editor

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Arthur S. Brisbane / The Public Editor's Journal:

Pre-Publication Disclosure of Dowd Column: A Breach of Two Boundaries — My final column as public editor was published in print on Sunday. However, I remain on duty through Friday and want to offer my take on the controversy this week over the pre-publication disclosure of a Maureen Dowd column.

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

NYT reporter was supposed to help fact-check a column, not send it to CIA — Mark Mazzetti reports on national security for The New York Times. He sent the text of a Maureen Dowd column that hadn't yet been published to CIA spokesperson Marie Harf, Dylan Byers reported Tuesday morning. …

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Dan Gillmor / Guardian: What Mark Mazzetti's Maureen Dowd CIA tipoff means for the New York Times

Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Wall Street Journal wants its reporters filing microvideo updates for its new WorldStream — The Wall Street Journal has been busy expanding its video offerings and experimenting with dedicated news streams in recent months. Today, the natural merger of the two debuts: a stream of reporter-generated videos called WorldStream.

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Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Wall Street Journal rolls out video network powered by smartphone-toting journalists

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Jim Romenesko:

National Writers Union blasts Huffington Post for not paying Oasis masseuses — The National Writers Union says the Huffington Post has reached “new heights of shamelessness” by not paying masseuses for their work at HuffPo's Convention 2012 Oasis relaxation stations.

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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Exclusive: Amazon NY to sell its ebooks through B&N, Kobo, other retailers — Amazon's New York-based book publishing imprint, which is headed by publishing industry vet Larry Kirshbaum, has signed a deal with Ingram to distribute its ebooks to other retailers, paidContent has learned.

Discussion: The Verge, WebProNews and Bookseller news

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Wendy Warren leaves Philly.com for NBCWashington.com — Philly.com editor Wendy Warren is leaving Philly.com to join NBCWashington.com, the website for WRC-TV, an NBC-owned station in Washington, D.C. Warren will be editorial manager, digital. Here's the memo from NBCWashington GM Jackie Bradford:

Dan Conover / Xark:

Why Fact Checkers fail — My interest in fact-checking grew out of years of running political coverage in the Carolinas, in places where facts were often far less important than the nameless angers that animate our Southern culture. Doing that job is, in fact, a political act, though not a partisan one.

Jim Romenesko:

Peggy Noonan has a new blog on WSJ.com — The Wall Street Journal says Peggy Noonan will write daily on political, cultural and personal subjects on her blog — simply called “Peggy Noonan's Blog” — and continue to do her weekly “Declarations” column. The Journal's release …

MediaShift Idea Lab:

Mapping the Rise of Violence Against Journalists in Afghanistan — New reports gathered by Internews and their on-the-ground partner Nai show that 2011 had the most incidents of violence against journalists in Afghanistan yet, with local news and TV networks experiencing the worst of it.

Amy Wicks / WWD:

Sally Singer Out at T — Sally Singer is out as editor of T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Singer joined the Times back in July 2010 after a long run at Vogue as fashion news and features director. At the time, she succeeded Stefano Tonchi who left T to become editor in chief of W …