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Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Michael Hastings, ‘Rolling Stone’ Contributor, Dead at 33 — The bold journalist died in a car accident in Los Angeles — Michael Hastings, the fearless journalist whose reporting brought down the career of General Stanley McChrystal, has died in a car accident in Los Angeles, Rolling Stone has learned.
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BuzzFeed:
Statement On Michael Hastings — BuzzFeed is saddened to report that Michael Hastings died in a car accident early this morning in Los Angeles. He was 33. — Ben Smith, BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief, said in a statement: — We are shocked and devastated by the news that Michael Hastings is gone.
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Eric W. Dolan / The Raw Story:
Journalist Michael Hastings dies in car crash — The journalist and author Michael Hastings died at the age of 33 on Tuesday morning. According to his employer BuzzFeed, Hastings was killed in a car crash in Los Angeles. — “We are shocked and devastated by the news that Michael Hastings is gone …
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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
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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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Janko Roettgers / paidContent:
Yet another YouTube funding: Bedrocket invests in Shira Lazar's What's Trending — Thought there was no money in producing original content for YouTube's audience? The folks at Bedrocket Entertainment beg to differ — and just invested in What's Trending.
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The Next Web, Variety and Guardian
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 …
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, Poynter, WebProNews, The Raw Story and FishbowlNY
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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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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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
Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
F.C.C. Nominee Favors Competition Over Regulation — WASHINGTON — President Obama's nominee to head the Federal Communications Commission told a Senate committee on Tuesday that his top priorities, if he is confirmed, would be consumer protection, increasing competition …
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Hillicon Valley, Radio & Television …, Mashable and @jbflint
Dominic Rushe / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch splits empire but keeps faith in tomorrow's newspapers — Mogul to hive off entertainment and publishing assets but believes newspaper businesses will emerge stronger than ever — Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation will be split in half on Wednesday as the mogul hopes to build …
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Guardian and Big News Network.com
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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