Mediagazer: Google isn't teaming up with credit card companies to block pirates' funding, sources say (Adi Robertson/The Verge)

12:35 PM ET, February 19, 2013

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
As BBC strikes, Brits trust journalists less than Americans do

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Columbia Journalism Review:

Where the jobs are — How WYNC's data journalism efforts show new opportunities for journalists — There are probably few things that intimidate journalists like reams of data. Unemployment might be high on that intimidation list, but you could argue that that's a numbers issue, too.

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Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Google isn't teaming up with credit card companies to block pirates' funding, sources say — Accusations of abetting piracy have plagued Google for years, whether because of illicit Android apps, search results for “free movie,” or ads placed on sites that may distribute copyrighted content without permission.

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Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:

Google asks journalists to tone down story of “massive” Google Play security flaw — After reporting that Google Play now distributes Android app buyers' location and contact information to developers, a journalist was contacted by the search giant with a request to tone down the story, its headline and its SEO information.

Discussion: SEO Book.com

David Carr / New York Times:

Logging Off to Trace a Web Photo to Its Source — When photographs of spontaneous events miraculously appear on the Web, it generally prompts two responses: wonder and skepticism. — So it was with an image of exploding manhole covers in Omaha that took over the Web last month.

Discussion: The Buttry Diary, Media Decoder and Capital New York

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

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