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Mike Brunker / NBC News:
Richard Engel and NBC News team freed from captors in Syria — Richard Engel at the end of a reporting trip in Syria in July of this year. — NBC News' Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel and members of his network production team were freed from captors in Syria after a firefight …
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
How NBC News Kept Richard Engel's Disappearance Secret
How NBC News Kept Richard Engel's Disappearance Secret
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Boing Boing, Chickaboomer, JIMROMENESKO.COM and National Enquirer
Adrienne LaFrance / Denver Post:
Newtown to the media: You're making this nightmare worse — NEWTOWN - “Enough is enough.” That's how one local woman summed up the weird and terrible media spectacle that has overtaken her once sleepy hometown. — As Newtowners gathered in shock to comfort one another after a 20-year-old resident went …
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Poynter, TVNewser, BBC, The Huffington Post and Washington Post
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Breaking: Penguin settles with Department of Justice in ebook pricing case — Penguin, which is in the process of merging with Random House, has settled with the Department of Justice in the ebook pricing lawsuit. The DOJ sued Penguin and four other publishers in April for conspiring to set ebook prices.
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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Reports of Fox News Barring Discussions of Gun Control Are Premature — “It is too soon to talk the politics of gun control,” executive producer for weekends David Clark writes in an email that insiders say has been taken wildly out of context. — Much was being made online on Monday …
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Politico, FishbowlDC, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, The Wrap, FishbowlNY, Business Insider, TVNewser, The Huffington Post, Inside Cable News and The Huffington Post
Rhonda Roland Shearer / iMediaEthics:
CJR Reporter Lying, Exploiting a Source? What's happening at Columbia Journalism Review? — Bruce Porter, a retired Columbia University journalism professor and the author of the book-turned-movie Blow, decided in 2011 that he would find Marcy, the then-teen source he betrayed …
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Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:
Trouble at The Columbia Journalism Review?
Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:
Vice Purchases i-D, the British Style Magazine — Vice, the multimedia company known for its in-your-face journalistic style, is expanding into fashion coverage by buying the British style publication i-D magazine. — Vice executives said that fashion was a topic that complemented their existing coverage …
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FishbowlNY, WWD, bizjournals, Guardian, VICE and The Next Web
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
BBC to publish findings on Newsnight's Jimmy Savile report on Wednesday — Corporation readies Pollard report into handling of Newsnight investigation into child abuse by Jim'll Fix It presenter — The BBC is planning to publish on Wednesday the much-anticipated Pollard report into the handling …
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
BBC and ITV apologise to Lord McAlpine for sex abuse allegations
BBC and ITV apologise to Lord McAlpine for sex abuse allegations
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
N.Y. Times getting another price hike — The New York Times subscription rate will increase again next month, a spokesperson at the paper tells POLITICO. — As of January 2013, an annual subscription to the Grey Lady will cost $660.40 a year ($12.70 a week) in the greater New York City area and $837.20 …
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WAtoday:
News Ltd hit by $476m loss as mastheads lose value — NEWS CORP'S Australian operation, News Ltd, posted a $476.7 million loss for the financial year ending June 30, after slashing the value of its newspaper mastheads after a double-digit decline in revenues.
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Fox's bloody t-shirt: Newtown images shows risks of automated advertising — Newspapers are careful about where their ads appear. They make sure, for instance, that flight specials don't appear beside plane crash articles or that Taco Bell coupons aren't printed beside food-poisoning stories.
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Jim Romenesko:
Robin Fields and Eric Umansky Promoted at ProPublica — Robin Fields has been promoted to managing editor at ProPublica, succeeding Stephen Engelberg, who becomes editor-in-chief. He replaces Paul Steiger, who becomes executive chairman. — Umansky and Fields
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Instagram changes terms of service, but will pro photographers flee anyway? — Instagram's new terms of service are causing widespreading out-freaking across the Internet. The photo-sharing service might not need to worry about losing food-snapping schmoes, John Paul Titlow writes …
Alexander C. Kaufman / The Wrap:
Time Inc. Names Martha Nelson First-Ever Woman Editor-in-Chief — Martha Nelson has been named Time Inc.'s seventh editor-in-chief, making her the first woman to fill the position, the company announced Tuesday. — Nelson, the founding editor of InStyle and former editor of People Group …
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Jim Romenesko:
From 1694: ‘News too extraordinary to be believed without farther confirmation’ — From JASON FEIFER: I've been poking around NewspaperArchive.com recently, and just came across this great nugget from a 1694 dispatch called Account Of The Publick Tranasctions in Christendom. — Feifer
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