Mediagazer: Newspaper royal charter plans are ‘bizarre’, says Liberty director (Lisa O'Carroll/Guardian)

5:30 AM ET, May 23, 2013

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Newspaper royal charter plans are ‘bizarre’, says Liberty director — Shami Chakrabarti blasts government and press proposals for watchdog, saying they have failed to follow Leveson blueprint — A key adviser to the Leveson report, the civil rights campaigner Shami Chakrabarti …

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Bill Mickey / Folio:

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Baltimore police reporter Dick Irwin dies — Former Baltimore Sun police reporter Dick Irwin died Wednesday. He was 76 and had complications from diabetes. — Irwin retired in 2010. Peter Hermann, now a reporter at The Washington Post, marked the occasion with a piece …

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Martin Bryant / The Next Web:

The BBC unveils an experimental ‘Perceptive Radio’ that offers personalized content — The BBC has developed an experimental piece of hardware called the Perceptive Radio, that adjusts the content it plays based on a wide range of circumstances, such as location, time, a user's proximity …

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Gavin Aronsen / Mother Jones:

New Louisiana Law Will Jail Journos for Publishing Gun Info — A bill headed to Gov. Bobby Jindal's desk would subject journalists to a $10,000 fine and up to six months in jail for publishing the names of concealed carry permit holders. — On Tuesday, the Louisiana Senate passed a bill …

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Time.com Is on a Hiring Spree — Here's a story you might not expect to come out of Time Inc.: Time.com is on a hiring binge. Two months after several higher-ups left in a round of cost-cutting, the site is hiring some 30 staffers, roughly a 50 percent increase, in preparation for a big relaunch in early fall.

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Erik Maza / WWD: Edward Felsenthal Helming Relaunch of Time.com

Eric Allen Been / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Jaron Lanier wants to build a new middle class on micropayments — “We're used to treating information as ‘free,’” writes Jaron Lanier in his latest book Who Owns the Future?, “but the price we pay for the illusion of ‘free’ is only workable so long as most of the overall economy isn't about information.”

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

NYT: Scroll Kit developer ‘is bragging’ about copyright infringement — Cody Brown received a takedown request from The New York Times' legal department after he posted a video showing how to replicate the “Snow Fall” experience using his tool Scroll Kit. — After he answered that request …

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