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Jim Romenesko:
Memo to Financial Times staff: Don't tweet commentary about the Leveson report — Financial Times staffers are told not to tweet commentary or analysis of the Leveson report on media standards when it's released tomorrow. “We will have commentary but it will stretch beyond 140 characters,” writes editor Lionel Barber.
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Guardian:
Leveson D-day dawns as coalition split over press regulation — Conservatives accuse Liberal Democrats of playing dangerous game over state regulation of media — The threat of a coalition split over future regulation of the press was looming as Conservative cabinet sources accused …
Emily Bell / Guardian:
The Leveson inquiry is irrelevant to 21st-century journalism — The judge's findings will address the nefarious behaviour of newspapers but not the vast array of media on the internet — Just as nature abhors a vacuum, the internet abhors geo-specific regulation.
Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:
Leveson inquiry: the essential guide
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@gallaghereditor and Hit & Run
Rosa Silverman / Telegraph:
News International's Tom Mockridge warns against state regulation
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Guardian
Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
Problems With a Reporter's Facebook Posts, and a Possible Solution — Start with a reporter who likes to be responsive to readers, is spontaneous and impressionistic in her personal writing style, and not especially attuned to how casual comments may be received in a highly politicized setting.
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Poynter, New York Magazine, Guardian, @smalera, @jeffjohnroberts, @anthonyha, @ryanlawler, The Huffington Post and Pressing Issues
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John Cook / Gawker:
New York Times Bureau Chief Isn't Chief of Her Own Tweets — Jodi Rudoren, the weirdly named Jerusalem bureau chief of the New York Times, likes to keep in touch with friends and readers via the social networking web sites Twitter.com and Facebook.com, as literate human beings in the developed world are often wont to do these days.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
You're Launching a Digital Music Start-Up? In 2012? Really? — Question to the people putting money into streaming music start-ups* in 2012: What are you thinking? — Yes, public investors value Pandora at something like $1.4 billion. And private investors think Spotify is worth at least $3 billion.
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Radio & Television …
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Greg Sandoval / CNET:
Song writers remind Pandora: 'You're profiting from our songs'
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Hillicon Valley
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
‘Just the facts’ isn't good enough for journalists anymore, says Tow Center's journalism manifesto — Of the dozens of assertions in a wide-ranging “manifesto” about the altered state of journalism from Columbia's Tow Center for Digital Journalism, this one stands out:
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Dear Jeff: a Handy List of Contradictory, Surefire Paths to Success at CNN — Try to imagine Jeff Zucker's inbox on Wednesday morning. — Along with all the e-mails from friends and former colleagues asking “Is it true?” — namely that he is the choice to run CNN Worldwide …
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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Analysis: Why Jeff Zucker is right for CNN
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The Huffington Post and Cable Television News
Kevin J. O'Brien / New York Times:
Google Fires a Rare Public Salvo Over Aggregators — BERLIN — Google's imprint on daily life is hard to ignore in Europe, where it reportedly has 93 percent of the Internet search market, more than in the United States. Yet when it comes to its lobbying of lawmakers, Google prefers a low profile.
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Bloomberg, Agence France Presse, Financial Times, TechCrunch, ReadWrite, Daily Dot, Search Engine Land, Softpedia News and ZDNet
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Madeline Chambers / Reuters:
German lawmakers condemn Google campaign against copyright law
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Associated Press
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Piers Morgan phone-hacking conversation to air on Channel 4 — Ex-Daily Mirror editor shown in documentary telling Charlotte Church of stories which came about due to mobile phones — Footage of former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan telling Charlotte Church how “a spate of stories” …
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Mediaite, broadcastnow.co.uk and The Huffington Post
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Brent Lang / The Wrap:
USA Today Publisher Larry Kramer: We're Not ‘Unique Enough’ to Charge for Web Access — Larry Kramer is not opposed to following the lead of the New York Times and others by constructing a paywall around USA Today's website, he just doesn't think the national newspaper has done enough to differentiate itself from the digital herd.
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FishbowlNY, NetNewsCheck Latest and 10,000 Words
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Amazon Publishing will expand to Europe; Kirshbaum to head U.S. operations — Amazon is expanding its original publishing efforts to Europe and is also shaking up its publishing division's structure, Publishing VP Jeff Belle announced in a letter to literary agents Wednesday (the full letter is below).
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PublishersWeekly.com and Publishers Lunch
Melinda Henneberger / Washington Post:
Tom Ricks to MSNBC: You're just like Fox, only not as good at it … Most of those chortling over Tom Ricks's highly unusual ninety seconds on Fox News this week were wowed by the way he spoke liberal truth to conservative power, informing his astonished interviewer, Jon Scott …
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The Huffington Post, New York Magazine and Mediaite
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Publicist confirms it: Fox News banned book critical of George W. Bush — In his much-discussed mea culpa about the reality-denialism of movement conservatism, Bruce Bartlett made a striking claim: He wrote that he was not allowed on Fox News — where he had previously been a regular guest …
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Politico, TVNewser, Chickaboomer, Mother Jones and Change of Subject
Nieman Journalism Lab:
What kinds of local stories drive engagement? The results of an NPR Facebook experiment — Editor's note: In February, our friends at NPR Digital Services told you about an experiment they were trying to localize content on the network's Facebook page, which has a massive 2.5 million fans.
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