Mediagazer: Warren Buffett buys Media General stock (Jim Romenesko)

12:05 PM ET, September 26, 2012

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William Turvill / PressGazette:

The accused: At least 46 journalists arrested by UK police in the last 16 months — The arrest of an unnamed Sun employee last week means at least 46 journalists have now been arrested as part of Metropolitan Police operations Weeting, Elveden and Tuleta and Scottish police investigation Rubicon.

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BBC:

Phone-hacking: Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson in 2013 trial — Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson are among those who appeared at the Old Bailey in London — Former News International boss Rebekah Brooks and ex-Downing Street communications chief Andy Coulson have learned their trial …

Katherine Rushton / Telegraph:

Rupert Murdoch backs down in war with ‘parasite’ Google — Rupert Murdoch has been forced to back down in his war with Google, amid fears that his newspapers are losing their influence because they do not appear in the search engine's rankings. — In the past, Rupert Murdoch has lambasted Google …

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Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:

Michael Moynihan Joins Newsweek/The Daily Beast — Michael Moynihan is joining Newsweek/The Daily Beast as cultural news editor. Moynihan is perhaps best known for breaking the story on Jonah Lehrer's fabrications. Moynihan's work has appeared in such publications as Politico …

Amy Wallace / Los Angeles Magazine:

Caught Getting Creative — The disgrace of wunderkind writer Jonah Lehrer, outed for manufacturing quotes, reverberates worst in the city he calls home — Here's what we thought we knew about Jonah Lehrer: Only 31 years old and dweebishly handsome—nerd-hip Clark Kent glasses below a flop of hair …

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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post: Jonah Lehrer: I'm Writing About My Plagiarism Scandal

Connor Simpson / The Atlantic Wire:

Ethics Force Press Pool to Deny Delicious Offers from POTUS — President Obama keeps trying to test out the journalistic integrity of the White House pool reporters by offering to buy them food at all of the delicious diners, drive ins, and dives he stops at while travelling across the country.

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Jim Romenesko:

Warren Buffett buys Media General stock — The Tampa Tribune reports Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has a 16.6% ownership stake in Media General with the recent purchase of 4.65 million Class A common shares. “The stock purchase gives Berkshire a significant say in how Media General operates …

Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:

NYT's data center power reports like taking a time machine back to 2006 — The data center industry is seemingly in a frenzy over the negative tone and information left out of the New York Times' series on data centers and power consumption, which debuted this weekend (part 1 and part 2).

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Al Jazeera English:

Press TV correspondent killed in Damascus — Maya Nasser, a correspondent for Iran's Press TV network, has been killed by a sniper while reporting on air in Damascus, according to the network. Hossein Mortada, who serves as Damascus bureau chief for both the English-language Press TV …

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Neetzan Zimmerman / Gawker:

Journalist Mona Eltahawy Arrested in New York for Spray Painting Over Pamela Geller's Racist Subway Poster — Egyptian-American journalist and blogger Mona Eltahawy was taken into custody by NYPD officers yesterday as she was attempting to cover one of Pamela Geller's anti-Islam subway posters with purple spray paint.

Discussion: New York Post and Guardian

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

MacKenzie sues South Yorkshire police over Hillsborough lies — Kelvin MacKenzie is fighting back over his infamous Hillsborough coverage. He has instructed lawyers to write to South Yorkshire police seeking an apology for being misled by its officers in 1989.

Discussion: Spectator

Daniel Terdiman / CNET:

Twitter founder says influence is in retweets. NFL player shows why — Evan Williams said that the most interesting measure of Twitter influence is how often someone is re-tweeted. NFL guard TJ Lang's profanity-laced tweets last night illustrated the point.

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Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
How Getty photographer captured controversial NFL call at end of Packers, Seahawks game

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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

HuffPost Live Chief: We're Doing Great, But We Don't Know Yet How To Measure How Great — How many people are watching HuffPost Live, the new-wave cable TV channel launched in August by the Huffington Post? “More than I had hoped,” says president and co-creator Roy Sekoff. — And how many is that?

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