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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

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 …


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


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, Sports Illustrated, Yahoo! News, Poynter, Speakeasy, LA Observed, Gawker, TVNewser and Rolling Stone


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


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


Brian Stelter On NBC's Response to ‘Top of the Morning,’ Negative Reviews — Though the critics have skewered his first book, Brian Stelter chooses to see the coffee cup as half full. — “Honestly, I appreciate the feedback,” says Stelter, 27, author of Top of the Morning …
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FishbowlNY and TVSpy


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


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

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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BBC


“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 …


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