Mediagazer: Rupert Murdoch promotes NI top exec to News Corp chief technical role (Lisa O'Carroll/Guardian)

2:30 PM ET, September 11, 2012

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9/11 anniversary forgotten on the front page of today's New York Times — How do you mark the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks? For some papers in the cities where the attacks took place, the answer is subtle: It's time to move on. At The New York Times and the New York Post, Sept. 11, 2012 is just another day.

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Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

How to Cover the 11th Anniversary of 9/11? — The pain, the outrage, the loss - these never fade. The amount of journalism, however, must. This is the 11th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001 - that infamous date in the history of New York, the nation and the world.

Discussion: Poynter, Capital New York, Erik Wemple, The Huffington Post, Charles Apple, GigaOM, FishbowlNY, Alabama Public Radio and The Awl

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

NBC's ‘Today’ Skips 9/11 Moment Of Silence For Kardashian Interview — At 8:46 AM, in New York City and at the White House in Washington DC, there was a moment of silence to remember when the first plane hit the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. In New York, the NYPD, FDNY …

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Jeremy Peters / The Caucus:

A Journalist With Rare Access to Obama Had to Play by Quote Rule — Michael Lewis, the best-selling author of “Moneyball” and “The Big Short,” was granted extraordinary access to President Obama for his latest article in Vanity Fair. — But with that access came one major condition.

Discussion: Poynter, New York Times, Prof Chris Daly's Blog, @nytfridge, @dangillmor and Alabama Public Radio

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Another exit at the ‘Observer’: News editor Megan McCarthy — Three New York Observer staffers announced their departures from the salmon-tinted weekly last week. — This week, there's another: news editor Megan McCarthy is out. Her last day will be sometime this week.

Discussion: Politico, @sarahw and @cschweitz

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Rupert Murdoch promotes NI top exec to News Corp chief technical role — Rupert Murdoch has chosen News International's top technology executive to set News Corporation's global strategy for digital publishing and to manage the technical end of the demerger of the media company into two separately listed businesses.

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Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Julian Assange threatened legal action over WikiLeaks documentary — Julian Assange threatened legal action against a film festival in an attempt to pressure them not to show a documentary on the history of WikiLeaks. Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, threatened to sue the South by Southwest …

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Marco Arment / Instapaper Blog:

9to5 — Last week, 9to5mac published this article in which the author intentionally derided me and Instapaper, called it “Instascraper”, and initially accused Instapaper of being responsible for the now-debunked “FBI” UDID leak. Despite my attempts to get them to correct what they wrote, they refused.

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Matt Buchanan / BuzzFeed:
How To Get Banned From Instapaper

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

About 3,000 former Hearst interns join class action lawsuit — Diana Wang's lawsuit against Hearst has become a class-action lawsuit, and “may be decided as soon as early 2013,” Kayleen Schaefer reports. Wang served as an unpaid intern for Harper's Bazaar, which Hearst owns.

Tiffany Kary / Bloomberg:

Twitter Told to Produce Protestor's Posts or Face Fine — Twitter Inc. has to turn over information about an Occupy Wall Street protester's posts or face a fine, a judge ruled, giving the company three days to show it isn't in contempt of court. — New York State Supreme Court Judge Matthew …

Discussion: New York Magazine, Betabeat and AllThingsD, Thanks:@jaredbkeller

Cynthia Cotts / The New York Observer:

New York Times Union Reps Back in Talks with Management Over Contract — Negotiations over the New York Times union contract started up again this week, and labor and management are already at loggerheads, with union members fuming over the “disrespect” they've been shown so far.

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Danelle Morton / CJR:

Bruce R. Brugmann, one of the last of the alt-weekly lions, is calling it quits. Sort of. — Bruce B. Brugmann is a stubborn guy who sticks to his point of view, even as the world he helped build is disappearing. Fitting then to sit with him late in June in the cavernous warehouse offices …

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