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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
YouTube Blocks Israeli Hamas Assassination Video — And Puts It Back Up Again — Israel has gone to war with Hamas in Gaza, and it is using the Internet as a weapon, employing services like Twitter, Facebook and Flickr on its behalf. — The idea is familiar to anyone who has a message to push in 2012 …
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Max Fisher / Washington Post:
The story behind the photo: Journalist's 11-month-old son killed in Gaza strikes — BBC journalist Jihad Masharawi carries his son's body at a Gaza hospital. (Associated Press) — The front page photo on Thursday's Washington Post tells, in a single frame, a very personal story …
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Telegraph, Gawker and The Huffington Post
Jessica Roy / Betabeat:
Social Media Companies Have Absolutely No Idea How to Handle the Gaza Conflict
Social Media Companies Have Absolutely No Idea How to Handle the Gaza Conflict
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Wired, Capital New York, WorldViews and BBC
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
Anonymous Hackers Hit Israeli Sites In Retaliation For Gaza Attacks
Anonymous Hackers Hit Israeli Sites In Retaliation For Gaza Attacks
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CNN, NYT Bits and Fast Company
Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:
In Israeli Attack on Hamas: Shock, Awe and Social Media
In Israeli Attack on Hamas: Shock, Awe and Social Media
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Foreign Policy, The Daily Beast, KDVR.com, Wired, Red Alert Politics, GigaOM, The Hill, Softpedia News, The Stream and BuzzFeed
Paul Sonne / Wall Street Journal:
BBC Faces Probe Over Abuse Scandal — LONDON—Britain's communications regulator is investigating the British Broadcasting Corp. for a recent broadcast of its current affairs program “Newsnight” that improperly accused a former Conservative Party official of child sex abuse …
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@skynewsbreak, NetNewsCheck Latest, Press Gazette, Media Decoder and New York Times
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Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Guy Fieri Responds to Pete Wells: ‘He Had an Agenda’ — Guy Fieri got his restaurant blasted by Pete Wells in The New York Times, so this morning he went on the Today show to defend his food and American Bar and Grill. Fieri said that Wells' review was over the top, and that it seemed …
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AdAge, Gawker, Eater National, TVNewser and 10,000 Words
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Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
New York Times hosts ad client dinner at Guy Fieri restaurant it panned earlier in the day
New York Times hosts ad client dinner at Guy Fieri restaurant it panned earlier in the day
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Gawker, The Braiser, Tampa Bay Times, Guardian, Speakeasy, Bites and Eater National
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Brauchli's wife: Washington Post has become 'place where you can't speak truth to power' — Former Los Angeles Times reporter Maggie Farley is married to outgoing Washington Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli. In a public posting on Facebook Tuesday evening, she wrote:
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NetNewsCheck Latest and City Desk
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Ryan Chittum / CJR:
Marcus Brauchli's impossible task — The Post's ultimate problem is the business side, not the newsroom — I can't think of any editor whose last few years ran headlong into the financial collapse of the newspaper industry more than Marcus Brauchli's. — Brauchli got the top job …
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Capital New York, Erik Wemple and Media Decoder
Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:
Exclusive: Spotify to begin rolling out browser-based music app in beta today — Spotify today plans to begin the roll out of its first ever browser-based music player, The Verge has learned from sources close to the company. From the looks of it, the web player looks a lot …
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Betabeat, Features and Columns, PC Magazine, iDownloadBlog.com, The Next Web, WebProNews, SocialTimes, hypebot and Gizmodo
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Ben Rooney / Wall Street Journal Europe:
Spotify Valued at $3 Billion, but Where is the Missing Billion?
Spotify Valued at $3 Billion, but Where is the Missing Billion?
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The Next Web
Jim Romenesko:
How Elizabeth Spiers got Mediabistro noticed - then failed to profit from its sale — When Mediabistro was sold in 2007, I told some people that I thought Elizabeth Spiers deserved at least a few of the millions that Laurel Touby took to the bank. — Touby (left) and Spiers
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The Awl
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Penelope Green / New York Times:
The Loft That Mediabistro Built
The Loft That Mediabistro Built
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Gawker, @real_kaplan, @laureltouby and @laureltouby
Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
Twitter Poised to Name Media Mogul Peter Chernin to Board of Directors — Twitter is poised to announce the appointment of Hollywood media exec Peter Chernin to the company's board of directors, according to sources familiar with the situation. — As AllThingsD has previously reported …
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CNET
Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:
Viacom Profit Increases, but Movie Division Hurts Revenues — Viacom's net income for its fiscal fourth quarter increased by 12 percent, while its revenue fell 17 percent as a result of a decline in domestic advertising revenue and a corporate strategy to release a diminished slate of movies through its Paramount Pictures studio.
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Radio & Television … and Hollywood Reporter
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Jennifer Saba / Reuters:
Viacom posts higher profit; CEO says MTV is not broken
Arif Durrani / MediaWeek:
Audit Bureau of Circulations changes name after 98 years to AAM in the US — The Audit Bureau of Circulations in the US has become the first member of IFABC to change its name in an attempt to better reflect the changes sweeping across the publishing business in the digital age, opting for the Alliance for Audited Media.
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Folio, Poynter, FishbowlNY, NetNewsCheck Latest and New York Times
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Election Night Was a Second Screen Extravaganza — If you are reading this there are very good odds that you spent all or part of election night online. Because, why wouldn't you? — Still, here's some data that shows how commonplace that behavior was, beyond your personal filter bubble …
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Pew Research Center …
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Will Bourne Named New Editor-in-Chief of The Village Voice — Will Bourne has been named the editor-in-chief of The Village Voice. He replaces Tony Ortega, who left the paper in September. — Bourne comes to the Voice from Inc., where he served as editor-at-large since July.
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Capital New York, New York Magazine and GalleyCat
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
The Daily News doesn't have a permanent office at the moment thanks to Sandy. And now it's down three key journalists, too, including at least one whose departure is sure to make waves within city-desk circles. — Tracy Connor, a longtime reporter and editor at the News and one of the driving forces …