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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
The Danger of Suppressing the Leaks — IMAGINE if American citizens never learned about the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Imagine not knowing about the brutal treatment of terror suspects at United States government “black sites.” Or about the drone program that is expanding under President Obama …
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@katehnyc and @mlcalderone
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Bill Keller / New York Times:
Private Manning's Confidant — In early 2010, Pfc. Bradley Manning methodically uploaded a digital mother lode of classified United States military and diplomatic documents to the Internet insurgents of WikiLeaks. As everyone knows, WikiLeaks made these secret archives available to a few major news outlets, including this one.
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Pressing Issues and @mlcalderone
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Hyperlocal cooties — Another hyperlocal venture is struggling, and each time this happens, I fear hyperlocal gets more cooties. But I refuse to give up hope because there's a reason for each fall, there's much still to do, and it's still early. — The latest: Carll Tucker's Daily Voice …
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NJ News Commons and yelvington.com
Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
Revenge of the sources — I understand why a professional journalist like Nate Thayer would be frustrated at being asked to work for “exposure” rather than work for pay, though I think it's unprofessional to vent that frustration by publishing the e-mails and the name of the junior editor who made the request.
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Mediaite, Media Channel, @mathewi, @jayrosen_nyu, EJC, Gawker, Quotes and Snippets and Wonkette
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Where WordPress is headed: Longform content, curation and maybe even native ads — WordPress is a content company, CEO Matt Mullenweg stressed in a panel Saturday at SXSW Interactive — and longform content is an area that the company is especially interested in. That could include native ads.
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AllThingsD, AllThingsD and TechCrunch
Bill Mickey / Folio:
Content Subscription Site NSFW Corp. Expanding into Print — Initial print run capped at 5,000 copies. — Paul Carr, a former TechCrunch writer, is prepping a relaunch of his NSFW Corp., a subscription-based content site featuring a comedic spin on current and world events that he launched last year.
David Freedlander / The Daily Beast:
The Weather Channel's Secret Plan — And that's just the start of the forecasting behemoth's plans for global domination. Say goodbye to your local weatherman. … As a late-winter snowstorm barreled down from the Midwest, threatening the mid-Atlantic, David Kenny, the Weather Channel's CEO …
Tom Whitehead / Telegraph:
Self-published authors hit by Amazon online royalties cut — Specialist and minor authors are being damaged by Amazon's online royalties scheme that punishes those who do not want to sell their books at knock-down prices, critics warned. — If authors sell their books directly through Amazon's Kindle site …
Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon's Quest for Web Names Draws Foes — Large and small companies are vying for control of an array of new Internet domain names, but Amazon.com Inc.'s plans are coming under particular scrutiny. — Two publishing industry groups, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers …
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CNET, Good E-Reader, Engadget and Gizmodo
Jim Romenesko:
WSJ staffers told to ‘stay the course - and accelerate’ — From: Narisetti, Raju — On an average weekday in the last 12 months, our total circulation was 2.3 million for all three print editions of The Wall Street Journal combined. We should all be very proud of the great print offerings we provide …
Jack Shafer / Reuters:
And now, a word against our sponsor — The Washington Post's website joined the sponsored-content stampede early this week with the introduction of its BrandConnect Web product, making it the first major U.S. newspaper to embrace sponsored content, according to Digiday.
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Columbia Journalism Review, The Dish, @rajunarisetti, @gaberivera, @rafat, @jason, @rafat and @mccarthyryanj
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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Netflix Series Spending Revealed … Netflix may be notoriously secretive about the economics of its original programming, but not everyone who works with the streaming service works quite the same way. — CAA TV literary agent Peter Micelli was forthcoming about how Netflix …
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NetNewsCheck Latest, The Verge and Business Insider
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Elon Musk Says His Only Regret In NYT Controversy Was Not Rebutting The Rebuttal — During this afternoon's keynote interview at South by Southwest Interactive, Tesla CEO and founder Elon Musk briefly addressed his recent back-and-forth with The New York Times about a negative article by writer John Broder, which Musk said was “false.”
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