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David Corn / Mother Jones:
WATCH: Full Secret Video of Private Romney Fundraiser — On Monday and Tuesday Mother Jones published exclusive video that captured Mitt Romney speaking to donors at a May 17 fundraiser, which was held at the home of private equity mogul Mark Leder. Responding to a question about the …
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Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:
With Romney Videos, Mother Jones Keeps Readers Coming Back
With Romney Videos, Mother Jones Keeps Readers Coming Back
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Nieman Journalism Lab, MinOnline, PopWatch, Boston Globe, Washington Wire, Guardian, @clarajeffery, Slate, TVNewser, The Huffington Post and New York Times
Brendan Nyhan / CJR:
Jumping the gun on the Romney ‘47%’ video
Jumping the gun on the Romney ‘47%’ video
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Mediaite, The Atlantic Online, Speakeasy, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Wire, PandoDaily and The Daily Beast
Tony Romm / Politico:
Mitt Romney ‘47 percent’ recording may have been illegal
Mitt Romney ‘47 percent’ recording may have been illegal
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citmedialaw.org, New York Times, The Caucus, @jbenton, Forbes and The Week
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Huffington Post, Mother Jones duel for video credit
Huffington Post, Mother Jones duel for video credit
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Associated Press
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
The Long Strange Leak Of Mitt Romney's 47% Video
The Long Strange Leak Of Mitt Romney's 47% Video
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Poynter, @mlcalderone, Tampa Bay Times, AllThingsD, Capital New York, New York Magazine and Politico
Charlie Warzel / Adweek:
Good Relaunches, Opens Up About Layoffs — Good founder Ben Goldhirsh shocked media types and set in motion a slew of terrible headline puns ("Bad! Major Editorial Layoffs Hit Good") when the company laid off the majority of its editorial staff with very little explanation last June.
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@craigsilverman and ReadWriteWeb, Thanks:@cwarzel
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
What's Next for GOOD Magazine? A Social Network. — GOOD Worldwide will today launch a new social activism site Good.is. — Famous for its printed magazine, GOOD has now turned its focus to a community site that allows members to publicly post stories and activities and to follow each other and their interests.
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Mashable!
David Carr / New York Times:
Media Chiefs Form Venture to E-Publish — Two powerful entertainment moguls, Scott Rudin, the film and theater producer, and Barry Diller, the chairman of IAC/InterActiveCorp, are joining together to enter the turbulent world of book publishing. — Mr. Rudin and Frances Coady …
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Fast Company, NetNewsCheck Latest, DealBook, @carr2n, CNET and Deadline.com
Julie Moos / Poynter:
Stephen Colbert spends 3 minutes mocking USA Today's new logo — On Tuesday night's show, Stephen Colbert told Comedy Central viewers that his fears over USA Today's “dramatic” redesign were “for nothing.” Highlights from the segment: — “In a digital era where print media is struggling …
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
The Guardian has a new chief digital officer — Guardian News & Media may be re-casting its whole self as “digital-first”, but it still has digital-specific leadership. On Wednesday, the news publisher announced the creation of its first chief digital officer role, a post which appears …
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Guardian, Media Week and NetNewsCheck Latest
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Wikimedia enables ebook export feature on Wikipedia for your offline reading pleasure — Wikimedia today announced that it has enabled a new EPUB export feature on Wikipedia, but only on the English version of the site. You can use the new feature to collate your personal collection …
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Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, nbcnews.com, Lifehacker and Pocket-lint
Eva Galperin / TechCrunch:
Why Google Shouldn't Have Censored The Anti-Islamic Video — Editor's note: Eva Galperin is the International Freedom of Expression Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Follow her on Twitter: @evacide. — On Wednesday, YouTube announced that it had blocked access …
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Operation Elveden: Sun journalists held — Police officer also arrested as part of investigation into alleged inappropriate payments to public officials in exchange for stories — Two Sun journalists, including the paper's West country correspondent, were arrested on Wednesday …
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PressGazette and BBC
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Sky wins exclusive Warner Bros. movie rights, dealing a blow to Netflix and its rivals — Pushing back against Netflix and its satellite, video-on-demand and pay-per-view rivals, Sky has signed a new movie deal with Warner Bros., which sees it granted exclusive access to movies six months after they end their run in theaters.
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Sky News, Engadget, Hollywood Reporter, Digital Spy, The Wrap and Deadline.com
Bill Carter / New York Times:
All the TV News Since 2009, on One Web Site — Inspired by a pillar of antiquity, the Library of Alexandria, Brewster Kahle has a grand vision for the Internet Archive, the giant aggregator and digitizer of data, which he founded and leads. — “We want to collect all the books …
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Forget Savannah Vs. Ann. Here's Why ‘GMA’ Is Beating ‘Today’ — The average ratings gap between NBC's “Today” and ABC's “Good Morning America” is about 2%, give or take, with the winner changing from week to week. Yet on a per-hour basis, “Today” earns about 42% more in ad revenue.
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Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Curry's revenge: NBC's ‘Today’ reeling after kicking Ann to the curb
Curry's revenge: NBC's ‘Today’ reeling after kicking Ann to the curb
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Los Angeles Times and New York Magazine