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Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
Google challenges U.S. gag order, citing First Amendment — Google is preparing to ask the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to ease long-standing gag orders over data requests it makes, arguing that the company has a constitutional right to speak about information it's forced to give the government.
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Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times:
Yahoo discloses how much government data requests it gets
Yahoo discloses how much government data requests it gets
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Yahoo, BBC, Valleywag, Christian Science Monitor, CNN, TechRadar.com, Bloomberg, The Register, The Independent, Engadget, Reuters, ZDNet, CNNMoney.com and Guardian
Isaac Chotiner / New Republic:
“What Part of ‘Politico’ Do You Not Understand?” — A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation — The dominant mode of Washington journalism tends to both reflect and entrench the values of its era. The eminent writers and editors of the immediate postwar age …
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Nieman Journalism Lab, Gawker, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, @bcappelbaum, FishbowlDC, @jayrosen_nyu and Poynter
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Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Photographer sues BuzzFeed for $3.6M over viral sharing model — A photographer says BuzzFeed should pay copyright damages not only for an unauthorized photo that appeared on its site — but for the dozens of other sites on which the photo appeared. — An Idaho photographer, Kai Eiselein …
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The Awl, Guardian, Poynter, WebProNews and FishbowlNY
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Next: Yahoo Also Eyeing Automated Video App Maker Qwiki in $50 Million Deal — According to sources close to the company, Yahoo is considering paying up to $50 million for Qwiki, the New York startup that makes an Apple iPhone app that allow users to turn photos, music and videos into short movies automatically.
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memeburn, Forbes, Business Insider, CNET, App Advice, Mashable and WebProNews
Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
AOL's Patch Limps Toward Profitability — After more than five years of reporting on school-board meetings and community bake sales, AOL Inc. (AOL)'s Patch is now at the center of another story: whether the company's bet on local news can be profitable. — Patch, with more than 900 sites …
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Street Fight
Sam Biddle / Valleywag:
Tumblr's Media Director Quits — Tumblr brought Mark Coatney aboard from Newsweek to bolster the site's editorial side—"to show how [Tumblr] can be key to connecting journalists and readers." Three years (and a Yahoo acquisition) later, and another early employee is gone. That's two in only a few weeks.
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Still Not Going To Do …, CNET, Business Insider, Betabeat and SlashGear
Chris Ariens / FishbowlLA:
FishbowlLA Going on Hiatus — Mediabistro's FishbowlLA is taking five. In the meantime, FBLA co-editor Richard Horgan has moved over to FishbowlNY to cover the Hollywood trades, awards season and a broad range of national media stories. — Launched in 2005, the site has seen its fair share …
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FishbowlNY, 10,000 Words and LA Observed
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Gallup: Only 23% of Americans trust newspapers, TV news — The bad news: Just 23 percent of Americans told Gallup they have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in newspapers, the same percentage who said they trust TV news. The good news: Both are still more popular than big business, organized labor, HMOs and Congress.
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MediaPost, Kirk LaPointe's …, Gallup and 24/7 Wall St.
Brett Logiurato / Business Insider:
Fox Business Terminates Contract With Contributor Who Was Paid $50,000 To Boost A Stock — Fox Business Network has terminated the contract of contributor Tobin Smith, who was paid $50,000 to tout the stock of Petrosonic Energy, a network spokesperson told Business Insider.
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MarketWatch and TVNewser
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Future of 3-D TV Murky as ESPN Ends Channel — A few years ago, 3-D was hailed as the next big thing in television, the logical successor to high definition. But viewers in the United States did not buy the hype, and now the eye-popping format is seen as an expensive flop.
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Change of Subject, PSFK and Subtraction.com
Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
More on the Plane That Didn't Crash, and ‘Truthiness’ — A few weeks ago, I wrote about the plane that didn't crash - that is, about a Lives piece in The Times Magazine that has drawn significant criticism from aviation experts including Patrick ("Ask the Pilot") Smith and from James Fallows …
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Study: Facebook third most popular news source in Arab world — Broadcasters Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya named top outlets for accessing news across the region, followed by Facebook — Copyright: Image by owenwbrown on Flickr. Some rights reserved — Facebook is the third most popular outlet …
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Yahoo! News
Allan Sloan / Fortune:
Zell's legacy lives on: IRS goes after Tribune — By the time the final papers are shuffled, the IRS and local tax authorities are likely seek more than half a billion dollars from Tribune in regard to the sales of the Chicago Cubs and Newsday under former CEO Sam Zell.