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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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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.
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Big News Network.com
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 …
Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:
Leveson inquiry: the essential guide
Leveson inquiry: the essential guide
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New York Times, @gallaghereditor and Hit & Run
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Piers Morgan phone-hacking conversation to air on Channel 4
Piers Morgan phone-hacking conversation to air on Channel 4
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Mediaite, broadcastnow.co.uk, Guido Fawkes and The Huffington Post
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, WWD Media Headlines, New York Magazine, Guardian, @smalera, @jeffjohnroberts, @ryanlawler, @anthonyha, Pressing Issues and The Huffington Post
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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.
Ali Abunimah / The Electronic Intifada:
Responding to New York Times Public Editor's smear against me — I sent this letter to Margaret Sullivan, the Public Editor of The New York Times today: — Dear Ms. Sullivan, — As public editor of The New York Times, your role, as I understand it, is to advocate for the interests of readers and to be an arbiter of accuracy.
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
How can we build a future of post-industrial journalism? — There's been a lot written over the past few years about the future of the news industry — how the rise of the web and social media have disrupted it, and how traditional players like the New York Times and others can recover …
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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, BuzzMachine and Softpedia News
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Madeline Chambers / Reuters:
German lawmakers condemn Google campaign against copyright law
German lawmakers condemn Google campaign against copyright law
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Mercury News and Associated Press
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'
Song writers remind Pandora: 'You're profiting from our songs'
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Hillicon Valley
David Pakman / Disruption:
My Congressional Testimony on Internet Music Licensing
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, 10,000 Words and NetNewsCheck Latest
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
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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Variety, The Wrap and Top Digital Journal News
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Atavist begins offering in-app subscriptions to its stories — Atavist, publisher of both technology and ebook-esque stories, is taking a cue from the world of magazines and newspapers by getting into the subscription business. — Starting today, readers can sign up for a three-month subscription …
Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
Reporters Without Borders launches site for censored content — Press freedom group Reporters Without Borders has launched a website on which it says it will ‘post content that has been censored or banned or has given rise to reprisals against its creator’ — Copyright: By rpongsaj on Flickr.
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Reporters Without Borders
Merrill Knox / TVNewser:
More Than 90 Jobs to be Cut at Bloomberg TV Europe — Bloomberg TV is in the process of laying off as many as 94 people in the network's London bureau, multiple sources tell TVNewser. — A spokesperson for Bloomberg TV declined to comment on a specific number of layoffs …
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SocialTimes and Talking Biz News
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Washington Times to cut staff for second time in three years [Updated] — This post has been updated. — The Washington Times is readying itself for staff reductions. New Editor David Jackson sent his staff the following memo today. It comes after a pointed set of questions posed …
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JIMROMENESKO.COM and FishbowlDC
Olivia Solon / Wired.co.uk:
Net-a-Porter CEO: It's no secret we're launching a major fashion magazine — Online fashion retailer Net-a-Porter is planning to launch a printed magazine within the next 12 months, according to CEO Mark Sebba, speaking at the Business Leaders Network's Making it Mobile event.