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Peter Walker / Guardian:
WikiLeaks criticised for linking Benghazi attack to Julian Assange case — WikiLeaks has been accused of crass self-centredness after it intimated that its founder Julian Assange's current refuge inside the Ecuadorean embassy in London in part explained or even justified Wednesday's attack …
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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Afghanistan bans YouTube page for Prophet Mohammad video that led to the murder of a US ambassador [Updated] — Update: It turns out that YouTube has not been banned in Afghanistan, contrary to previous reports, including this one at The Next Web (the original story is below), which cited Reuters.
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Associated Press:
US law enforcement: Nakoula is filmmaker of anti-Muslim movie blamed for violence — WASHINGTON — A U.S. law enforcement official says a man named Nakoula Basseley Nakoula is behind the anti-Muslim film being blamed for mob attacks in Egypt, Libya and Yemen.
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
‘It Makes Me Sick’: Actress in Muhammed Movie Says She Was Deceived, Had No Idea It Was About Islam
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Muhammad Film Consultant: ‘Sam Bacile’ is Not Israeli, and Not a Real Name
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Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
The Times Denies State Department Request to Remove Photo From Web Site — The State Department asked The New York Times on Wednesday afternoon to remove a photograph of the dying ambassador to Libya from a gallery on the newspaper's Web site. The ambassador, J. Christopher Stevens …
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Julie Moos / Poynter:
L.A. Times, NY Daily News feature graphic Libya ambassador photo on front page — The New York Times said Wednesday that it was not planning to use a graphic photo on its Thursday front page of Christopher Stevens, the U.S. Ambassador killed in Libya this week.
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Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
Was Photo of Dead Ambassador Acceptable?
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Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:
The ‘facts’ from Benghazi
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Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
After ‘Today’ Criticism, NBC News Chief Apologies to Affiliates — As it promised, NBC did not apologize on the air Wednesday for its decision not to observe a moment of silence during the “Today” show on Sept. 11. — But Steve Capus, the president of NBC News, did send out a message …
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David Benoit / Wall Street Journal:
TheStreet Buys The Deal for $5.8 Million — TheStreet Inc . has purchased The Deal LLC, owner of the mergers-and-acquisition publication The Deal, for $5.8 million, TheStreet confirmed Wednesday morning. — The magazine will be closed and staff will be laid off, people familiar with the matter said.
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Phillip Swarts / The Washington Guardian:
Investigation questions EPA money spent to fund newspaper — Once a month, a free print publication gets delivered to mailboxes, coffee shops and libraries across the Mid-Atlantic with the latest news about how the government and private sector are trying to protect one of America's natural crown jewels: the Chesapeake Bay.
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Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Nomad Editions Calls it Quits — Nearly three years after launching Nomad Editions, Mark Edmiston is all but calling it quits—providing yet another example of just how hard it is to start a mobile-only publication from scratch. Edmiston, a former president/CEO of Newsweek turned media investment-banker …
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eMedia Vitals
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Lawyer: 4 — not 3,000 — interns have joined class action suit against Hearst — When I aggregated Kayleen Schaefer's New York magazine piece about a former unpaid intern at Harper's Bazaar whose lawsuit against Hearst has become a class-action suit, I incorrectly interpreted this passage to mean 3,000 interns had joined the suit:
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch names Andrew Knight as Times Newspapers chairman — Rupert Murdoch has turned to a former big gun at News International, Andrew Knight, to take over from him as chairman of the Times and Sunday Times. Knight, who headed up Rupert Murdoch's London publishing operation between 1990 and 1994 …
Associated Press:
BPI Sues ABC News For Defamation — LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Beef Products Inc. filed a defamation lawsuit Thursday against ABC News for its coverage of a meat product that critics have dubbed “pink slime,” alleging that the network misled consumers to believe the product is unhealthy and unsafe.
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Adam L. Penenberg / PandoDaily:
Shhh... Don't Tell Apple But iTunes Is Doomed — At its iPhone-a-palooza today Apple announced that it's upgrading iTunes. It'll be more mobile friendly, and the store will be, oh, I don't know, more store-like? There will be Facebook integration, better search, and a bunch of other features …
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Not too much for news orgs in Apple's new announcements
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