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8:20 PM ET, November 4, 2012

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Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:
New Twitter policy lets users see tweets pulled down for copyright  —  Twitter has made a significant shift in how it responds to copyright complaints.  In the past, such complaints caused tweets to vanish without a trace but now people can see the place where a tweet once stood — and the reaction to its disappearance.
John Mahoney / American Photo:
The Story Behind Hurricane Sandy's First Viral Photo  —  On the morning the storm hit New York City, Nick Cope snapped a photo of rising flood waters from the window of his Red Hook, Brooklyn apartment.  Then things got interesting.  —  The view from Nick Cope's window the morning Sandy hit.
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Dan Pacheco / MediaShift Idea Lab:
The Most Innovative Digital Coverage of Superstorm #Sandy  —  While I've been blogging on Idea Lab since 2008, this is my first post since starting my new job as the Peter Horvitz Chair of Journalism Innovation at Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School.  In that role, I'm adopting an Idea Lab …
Discussion: social media and New York Times
Politico:
Journalists open wallets for Obama and Romney  —  Reporters for Romney?  Editors for Obama?  —  Numerous journalists — self-identified reporters, editors and photographers affiliated with established news organizations — contributed money in September and October to the campaigns of President Barack Obama or Mitt Romney.
Discussion: @darlin and @escarry
Jim Romenesko:
AP tells its journalists: Be careful what you tweet on election night  —  The Associated Press has told staffers “not to blindly retweet what others may be saying” about election results on Tuesday night.  " A memo from the news service's standards and social media editors says …
Mark Coddington:
Why political journalists can't stand Nate Silver: The limits of journalistic knowledge  —  The more I think about the rift between political journalism and Nate Silver, the more it seems that it's one that's fundamentally an issue of epistemology — how journalists know what they know.
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Clay Dillow / Popular Science:
The Local News: Now Brought To You By Drones?  —  A program dedicated to exploring the role of unmanned systems in news gathering issues its first report from the field.  —  Drone Journalism At The University Of Nebraska  —  Over at the University of Nebraska, journalism students putting another tool …
Michelle Atagana / memeburn:
CNN's head of social news: Twitter forces journos to report the news better  —  CNN accounted for about 13% of all social media mentions, according to trend analytics firm Trendrr earlier this year.  That's impressive.  Cable News Network is one of the largest news networks in the world …
Dana Davidsen / CNN:
New York newspapers flip for Romney  —  (CNN) - The New York Daily News and Long Island's Newsday endorsed Republican nominee Mitt Romney for president, switching from their 2008 pick of then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama.  —  In an article published in the newspaper's opinion section Sunday …
Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:
Lady Gaga fansite, NBC entities defaced in pre-Guy Fawkes Day hacker stunt  —  Hackers calling themselves Pykic apparently exploited forum software.  —  A number of pages on the NBC.com website were defaced Sunday with a reference to Guy Fawkes Day and a claim that user names and passwords for the site had been compromised.
Sarah Kessler / Fast Company:
Stitcher Aims To Build Talk Radio's First Search Engine  —  At one point, “binders of women” and “Mitt Romney's tax return” were among the most discussed election-related topics on talk radio.  With election day less than a week away, focus has switched to the U.S. national debt, the Benghazi attack, and the final presidential debate.
Discussion: MediaShift
Dan Nosowitz / Popular Science:
Meet The Climate Change Denier Who Became The Voice Of Hurricane Sandy On Wikipedia  —  Ken Mampel, an unemployed, 56-year-old Floridian, is in large part the creator of the massive Hurricane Sandy Wikipedia page.  He's also the reason that, for nearly a week, the page had no mention of climate change.
Discussion: The Verge and Gawker.com
 
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