Mediagazer: Police officer found guilty of trying to sell information to News of the World (Guardian)

2:05 PM ET, January 10, 2013

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Report: Newseum cuts about 30 jobs — The Newseum eliminated some jobs Wednesday: About 30 of 150, the Gannett Blog reports: … In a statement, the Washington, D.C., museum says the cuts were part of a “restructuring,” and that new hires will get the museum back to its pre-layoff staffing level.

Jim Hopkins / Gannett Blog:

Freedom Forum paid new CEO Duff $1.6M in 2011, documents show, amid signs of more fiscal distress — The financially troubled non-profit foundation paid CEO James Duff $1.6 million during his first four months on the job in 2011, a year when the Newseum's operator ran a $47 million deficit, newly released public documents show.

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Amazon “AutoRip” Service Goes Live — Giving Customers Free MP3s For CDs Purchased On Amazon As Far Back As 1998 (Hands-On) - Amazon is today introducing a new service called Amazon AutoRip, which automatically gives customers free MP3 versions of any CDs they've purchased from Amazon since the launch of its Music Store back in 1998.

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Megan Rose Dickey / Business Insider:

Amazon Should AutoRip All The Books You've Bought To Your Kindle — Amazon recently announced a new feature called AutoRip that provides CD buyers with free digital copies of those tracks. — As the name suggests, it just offers as a convenience what CD owners can do to copy songs …

Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:

Why are Bob Woodward's WH sources - or Woodward himself - not on trial next to Bradley Manning? — The extremist prosecution of Manning, accused of “aiding and abetting al-Qaida”, poses a real threat to US press freedom — There are numerous travesties defining the ongoing prosecution …

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Guardian:

Police officer found guilty of trying to sell information to News of the World — Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn offered details of phone-hacking investigation to tabloid in return for payment — A senior counter-terrorism detective has been found guilty of trying to sell information to the News of the World newspaper.

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Janet Stilson / Adweek:

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Mathew Ingram / paidContent:

Henry Blodget isn't telling us the most important thing about Business Insider — Business Insider founder Henry Blodget has pulled aside the curtain — or the kimono, as he likes to call it — to tell us all about how well the site is doing, courtesy of a presentation he put together for Folio magazine.

Charlie Warzel / Adweek:
The Biggest New Media Trend Is Analytics Transparency

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Mathew Ingram / paidContent:

NYT public editor: Sometimes transparency triumphs over objectivity — Is the status of objectivity as a sacrosanct principle of the journalism industry beginning to weaken? There have been some encouraging signs lately, not the least of which are some recent blog posts …

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Maggie Lu Yueyang / Reuters:

Australian pension fund pulls out of News Corp after failure to oust Murdoch — (Reuters) - An Australian pension fund said on Thursday that it would sell down its A$7 million (4.6 million pounds) stake in Rupert Murdoch's News Corp (NWSA.O), following the failure of proposals for a more independent board at the media empire.

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Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

Online radio will start serving ads based on your web browsing — Picture yourself sitting in Cleveland and using the internet to explore places to visit in France. Later, you pull up online radio service Pandora on your web browser to listen to Motown songs and what do you hear?

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Digg's Users Doubled Since August, Now Has Over 10 Million User Emails On File — Digg today took to its blog to share a bit of information about its user growth and monetization plans, now that it's been at Betaworks for nearly six months. The company said that Digg's user base has doubled since …

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Alexander Rankine / Guardian:

Oxford students to protest at Assange ‘visit’ — A row has erupted on campus over an invitation to Julian Assange to address the Oxford Union via video link — Outraged Oxford students are planning demonstrations following news that Julian Assange, the controversial Wikileaks founder …

New York Times:

Censored Newspaper Returns to Publication Amid Struggles — GUANGZHOU, China — Propaganda officials in the southern province of Guangdong have agreed to loosen some controls over an embattled newspaper whose struggle against censorship has galvanized free-speech advocates across China, according to journalists at the newspaper.

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