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Bill Carter / New York Times:
Fox May Produce Clinton Biopic Reviled by G.O.P. — The script for the proposed mini-series on the life of the possible presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton hasn't even been written but we may already have a plot twist. — While NBC has come under heavy fire, especially from Republican critics …
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TVNewser, Mediaite, New York Magazine and Hot Air
Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine:
AOL CEO Reportedly Fired Someone for Taking His Picture During a Meeting About Layoffs — AOL's plan to close or outsource half of its 1,000 hyperlocal Patch sites will come with what CEO Tim Armstrong calls “impacts” — he means layoffs — but the ax will fall slowly over the next week or so.
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Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Armstrong Confirms “Hundreds” Of Layoffs At Patch, 400 Sites Shuttered Or Partnered Off, And A New CEO — We reported yesterday that AOL's hyper-local news service would lose hundreds of employees today, and now we have confirmation from a well-placed Patcher privy to the call …
Alison Langley / Columbia Journalism Review:
Google told German newspapers to opt in, and they did — A law meant to make aggregators pay for content has instead caused Google to threaten to remove papers from its news search — In July, a month before Germany's controversial copyright law requiring search engines to pay …
Edward Schumacher-Matos / NPR Ombudsman:
S. Dakota Indian Foster Care 1: Investigative Storytelling Gone Awry — Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota. — Aaron Huey/Getty Images — In October 2011, NPR aired a three-part investigative series by reporter Laura Sullivan and producer Amy Walters alleging abuses …
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Alex Ben Block / Hollywood Reporter:
CBS and Time Warner Cable Resume Negotiations — at a Distance — Meanwhile TWC subscribers in Wisconsin, where Journal Broadcasting stations are also blacked out, file a class action suit as the carriage dispute approaches its second week. — Even as the war of public war of words continues …
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Broadcasting & Cable, AdAge, Los Angeles Times and PC Advisor
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Mike Reynolds / Multichannel:
TWC Customers File Lawsuit over Retrans Disconnect with Milwaukee Station — Plaintiffs Seek Class-Action Status over Disconnect with Journal Broadcast's WTMJ — A trio of Time Warner Cable customers has filed a lawsuit against the cable operator over its retransmission-consent dispute with WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee.
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JSOnline, The Desk, Inside TV, TMJ4 and FierceCable
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Obama's NSA Conference Could Be Subtitled ‘The Guardian Gets Results’ — President Obama's press conference on Friday was full of headline-making news about new proposals to reform the American surveillance system. But another headline could also be appropriate: “Journalism gets results.”
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Wonkblog, Rosie Gray, The Switch, CNET, New York Times, Washington Post, TVNewser, TechCrunch, NPR, Mediaite, The Next Web, @trevortimm, @ravisomaiya, @ezraklein, @tnycloseread, @attackerman, @jeffjarvis, @digiphile, Techdirt, Bangor Daily News, Bloomberg, USA Today, Fast Company, Wired, International Business Times, Al Jazeera English, Washington Times, Los Angeles Times, ABC News, Salon, Associated Press, ctvnews.ca, RT, First Read, CBS News, Mashable, The Week, Techdirt, The Verge, The Huffington Post, msnbc.com, Engadget, Guardian and Reuters
Morgan Weiland / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Why Sen. Feinstein Is Wrong About Who's a “Real Reporter” — During the Senate Judiciary Committee's August 1 mark-up of the shield law bill aimed at protecting journalists' sources, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) reportedly objected to the definition of journalist provided in the bill as introduced …
Riva Gold / Digits:
Wikipedia Co-Founder Refuses to Comply With China's Censorship — Wikipedia Co-Founder Jimmy Wales said he would rather have no Wikipedia in China than comply with any form of censorship. — In an interview with The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, Mr. Wales said the company will always refuse …
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SlashGear, Digits and South China Morning Post
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Jack Dorsey on Twitter's turning point as a news entity: The day a plane landed in the Hudson — After seven years with Twitter as a part of the social-media ecosystem, we've become pretty accustomed by now to the idea that the service functions as a real-time news platform …
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@mathewi
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
SpinMedia puts A.J. Daulerio in charge of its music and entertainment properties — A.J. Daulerio tells Jason Whitlock he will be an editorial director at SpinMedia. Among his charges, he says: Spin, Vibe, Celebuzz, The Frisky. — Daulerio tells Whitlock Spin and Vibe are …
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