Mediagazer: Broadsheets back Sunday Times decision to decline freelance submissions from Syria (William Turvill/Press Gazette)

4:50 PM ET, February 19, 2013

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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

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William Turvill / Press Gazette:

Broadsheets back Sunday Times decision to decline freelance submissions from Syria — Broadsheet newspapers have backed The Sunday Times' decision not to accept freelance submissions from Syria. — Press Gazette revealed this month that the News International title had told a photographer …

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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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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Demand Media Splits in Two — Spinning Off Domain Registrar Business From Media Unit — Demand Media said today that it planned to split its company in two parts, spinning off its domain business from its media one in a bid to better clarify the company to investors.

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Meteor Videos Set Online Viewing Record — How did you watch the videos of the meteor that lit up the sky over Siberia last week? If you're like many people, you went straight to YouTube, where dozens of amateur videos were uploaded soon after the rare occurrence.

Adam Liptak / New York Times:

Bucking a Trend, Supreme Court Justices Reject Video Coverage — WASHINGTON — Justice Sonia Sotomayor, populist, revealed a paternalistic streak this month, announcing that she had rethought her enthusiasm for video coverage of Supreme Court arguments. — At her confirmation hearings in 2009 …

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