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Michael H. Miller / The New York Observer:
Just a Crook? Pentagon Papers Lawyer Thinks Obama Is Worse Than Nixon — James C. Goodale, the so-called “father of reporters' privilege” and the author of a new book called Fighting for the Press (CUNY Journalism Press, 255 pp., $20), was in his office at the Debevoise & Plimpton law firm …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Sally Buzbee, AP Washington Bureau Chief, Targeted By Justice Department — NEW YORK — Associated Press Washington bureau chief Sally Buzbee was among the journalists targeted in the Justice Department's sweeping seizure of phone records that has drawn widespread condemnation from members …
David Carr / New York Times:
The Two-Way Street That Is Snooping and the News Media — Word on Monday that the Justice Department had obtained the records of more than 20 phone lines at The Associated Press sent the Fourth Estate into a frenzy. Big Government, Big Data, Big Brother, all the golems of an increasing surveillance-driven age were invoked.
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The Huffington Post:
Jay Carney Reacts To DOJ AP Scandal — Jay Carney endured an unrelenting grilling on Tuesday about what media watchdogs have called unprecedented actions by the Department of Justice to secretly obtain months of Associated Press phone records. — Journalists have been outraged since …
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Bloomberg:
Holder Recuses Himself From Journalist Phone Records Seizure — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said he has recused himself from an investigation that led to the collection of phone records from the Associated Press. — Holder told reporters today in Washington that he recused himself …
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Reid Pillifant / Capital New York:
Asked about a Schumer bill that might have protected the AP, the White House says it's ‘complicated’ — White House press secretary Jay Carney said at least a dozen times at a press briefing today that President Obama believes in reporters' unfettered right to pursue investigative stories.
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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Condemnation Of DOJ's AP Probe Continues; Carl Bernstein Calls It ‘Inexcusable’
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Politico, BuzzFeed, Washington Post and Capital New York
DealBook:
American Investor Targets Sony for a Breakup — Updated — An American hedge fund billionaire known for starting big fights has called for a breakup of the entertainment and electronic colossus Sony, according to people briefed on the matter, possibly setting off a battle that could roil Japan's famously staid corporate culture.
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Nitasha Tiku / Gawker:
Source: Bloomberg Was Supposed to Cut Off Spying Last Year, But Didn't — A high-ranking newsroom official for Bloomberg News was ordered last year to cut off reporters' access to information about how clients used the company's information terminals, according to a former Bloomberg reporter, but the spying continued anyway.
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Wall Street Journal:
FDIC and Bloomberg In Contact Over Data
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Heidi Moore / Guardian:
The Bloomberg ‘snooping scandal’ is completely overblown
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Fortune, New York Post, Columbia Journalism Review, The Tell, Naked Security, The Dish and AllThingsD
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Atlantic Media to Launch Another Digital-First Brand, for Defense Community — Six months after launching digital business site Quartz, Atlantic Media is preparing to roll out its fifth brand and second “digital-first” property. Defense One, a news and information site for the national security community …
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FishbowlDC, Folio, PandoDaily, mediabistro.com, Mashable, FishbowlNY and eMedia Vitals
Reuters:
Britain charges reporter on Murdoch's Sun in corruption probe — British prosecutors have charged a reporter on Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper over alleged payments of more than 17,000 pounds ($26,000) to officials for details of confidential government spending plans.
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Bloomberg, Channel NewsAsia and The Huffington Post
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
World Press Photo: ‘No evidence of significant photo manipulation’ in Paul Hansen's award-winning shot — World Press Photo says Paul Hansen's photo of mourners in Gaza was “retouched with respect to both global and local color and tone. Beyond this, however, we find no evidence of significant photo manipulation or compositing.”
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Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech:
How the 2013 World Press Photo of the Year was faked with Photoshop
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Sandvine: Netflix owns one-third of North American traffic at peak, has doubled its mobile share in 12 months — Once again, broadband Internet service tracking firm Sandvine has released its latest report for North America, and once again, Netflix is ruling Internet usage.
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GigaOM, AllThingsD, Daily Download and Softpedia News
Michael Wolff / Guardian:
Howard Kurtz isn't the problem at The Daily Beast, it's Tina Brown — The Daily Beast/Newsweek has floundered in the digital space. Some blame needs to be pointed at editor Tina Brown — When the media writer Howard Kurtz lost his job at the Daily Beast earlier this month …
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