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Michael Laris / Washington Post:
Hoax emergency message sends police to Wolf Blitzer's house in Bethesda — Montgomery County police received an urgent message at about 6:25 p.m. Saturday saying someone had been shot at Wolf Blitzer's home in Bethesda. Officers streamed toward the CNN host's residence near Congressional Country Club.
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TVNewser, New York Magazine, Chickaboomer, New York Post, Politico, The Verge, WTOP.com, Watchdog Blog, The Raw Story, Poynter, The Huffington Post and Pressing Issues
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
HuffPost Live in Deal With AXS to Put Show on Cable — The Huffington Post has found a partial home on cable television for its eight-month-old Internet channel, HuffPost Live, courtesy of Mark Cuban. — The company announced Sunday night that Mr. Cuban's cable channel AXS TV …
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
UK.Gov passes Instagram Act: All your pics belong to everyone now — Everyone = Silicon Valley [ad platforms] tech companies — Have you ever uploaded a photo to Facebook, Instagram or Flickr? — If so, you'll probably want to read this, because the rules on who can exploit your work have now changed radically, overnight.
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Emma Bazilian / Adweek:
ESPN: The Magazine Puts a Print Spin on Sponsored Content — Branded content has gotten plenty of attention as it's taken off online, where the division between editorial and advertising real estate can be fuzzier (see: Forbes, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, Gawker), but publishers have shied away from using similar strategies in print.
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FishbowlNY and eMedia Vitals
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
How Sports Illustrated Scored The Jason Collins Story — In a thought-provoking Sports Illustrated article, Jason Collins — who played for the Washington Wizards and Boston Celtics this NBA season — just became the first openly gay male athlete in one of America's most popular professional sports.
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Forbes, Variety, Sports Illustrated, Yahoo! News, Poynter, Speakeasy, LA Observed, Gawker, TVNewser and Rolling Stone
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Twitter Hires CBC's Kirstine Stewart As Managing Director (And First Team Member) For Twitter Canada — Canadian broadcasting executive Kirstine Stewart has joined Twitter as managing director for Twitter Canada. — The announcement was just tweeted by Adam Bain, Twitter's president of global revenue.
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AllThingsD, Macleans.ca and canada.com
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
Financial Times: ‘There is no drawback to working in HTML5’ — FT.com managing director Rob Grimshaw on apps evolution, paywall prospects and why BuzzFeed is ‘absolutely fascinating’ — Nearly two years since the Financial Times launched its HTML5 web app in June 2011 …
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AllThingsD and eMedia Vitals
T.C. Sottek / The Verge:
Supreme Court rules Freedom of Information Act requests can be limited to state residents — The Supreme Court just ruled that state government agencies are only required to respond to Freedom of Information Act requests (FOIAs) from residents of their state.
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New York Times, Associated Press and USA Today
Jim Romenesko:
Barry Diller regrets buying Newsweek — IAC/InterActiveCorp chairman Barry Diller tells Bloomberg Television: “I wish I had not bought Newsweek. It was a mistake.” … * Diller calls Newsweek purchase “a fool's errand” (businessweek.com) — More from Bloomberg Television's transcript of the Diller interview after the jump.
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Bloomberg
David L. Marcus / Nieman Reports:
“The Story of a Lifetime” — Boston Globe editor Brian McGrory on paywalls, misinformation, and social media — Brian McGrory, 51, was named editor of The Boston Globe just four months before the Boston Marathon bombings captured the world's attention. Ten days into that coverage …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Vox Media Steps Up Its Ad Push With The Launch Of Vox Creative, CEO Jim Bankoff Says Company Will Be Profitable This Year — Vox Media, publishers of the SBNation, Verge and Polygon blogs, is getting down to business with monetizing its content with the launch of Vox Creative …
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VentureBeat
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Huffington Post to launch German edition — The Huffington Post has announced the launch of a German-language edition for Germany, Austria and Switzerland in conjunction with Tomorrow Focus AG, a provider of digital media content in Germany. The partnership will be led largely by Tomorrow Focus AG …
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Bloomberg, The Huffington Post, ABCNEWS, paidContent and CNN
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Former Yahoo Exec Rich Riley Is New Shazam CEO: “For Next Stage of Growth and IPO” — Shazam, the music discovery mobile app that is now calling itself a “media engagement” company, said it had hired former top Yahoo exec Rich Riley as its new CEO, with longtime CEO Andrew Fisher moving to executive chairman.
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