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James Andrew Miller / New York Times:
N.F.L. Pressure Said to Lead ESPN to Quit Film Project — Pressure from the National Football League led to ESPN's decision on Thursday to pull out of an investigative project with “Frontline” regarding head injuries in the N.F.L., according to two people with direct knowledge of the situation.
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Marc Tracy / The New Republic:
Why ESPN Backed Out of a Concussions Investigation With ‘Frontline’ — “Frontline,” the prestigious, multiple-Emmy-winning investigative news show produced by Boston's PBS member station, announced late Thursday afternoon that a 15-month-old partnership with ESPN in which they published …
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John Koblin / Deadspin:
ESPN Pulls Out Of Frontline Concussion Investigation [UPDATE] — For a while now, ESPN's big alibi, the thing Bristol would trot out any time someone questioned the company's journalistic bona fides, was its joint investigation into NFL head injuries with PBS's Frontline. Now that's done with.
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PBS:
A Note from FRONTLINE: ESPN and “League of Denial” — You may notice some changes to our League of Denial and Concussion Watch websites. From now on, at ESPN's request, we will no longer use their logos and collaboration credit on these sites and on our upcoming film League of Denial …
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The Independent:
Exclusive: UK's secret Mid-East internet surveillance base is revealed in Edward Snowden leaks — Data-gathering operation is part of a £1bn web project still being assembled by GCHQ — Britain runs a secret internet-monitoring station in the Middle East to intercept and process vast quantities …
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Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
Snowden: UK government now leaking documents about itself — The NSA whistleblower says: ‘I have never spoken with, worked with, or provided any journalistic materials to the Independent’ — (Updated below) — The Independent this morning published an article - which it repeatedly claims comes from …
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Christopher Rosen / The Huffington Post:
Snowden, Greenwald Hit Back At New Claims
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Who abandoned negotiations first: Koch brothers or Tribune? — Charles and David Koch walked away from negotiations to buy Tribune Co.'s newspapers because digital assets like CareerBuilder and Classified Ventures wouldn't convey with the sale, Josh Peterson reported in The Daily Caller Thursday afternoon.
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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Koch Brothers Not Buying Tribune Company
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Col Allan declares himself MacArthur, as the ‘New York Post’ roils — “Like MacArthur I shall return.” — That's what Col Allan, the New York Post's pit bull of an editor-in-chief, wrote in an email to Capital earlier this week, likening himself to Gen. Douglas MacArthur …
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Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
What Is Medium? — The site from Twitter's co-founders is one year old, and still mysterious — Just about a year ago, a new website from two of the founders of Twitter launched. It was called Medium. The new site was invite-only, but outsiders could read from various collections.
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Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
Don't stop the music! Pandora ends 40-hour mobile limit — Six months after capping free mobile listening at 40 hours, Pandora is letting listeners keep the music going as long as they like without a fee, mostly because it's found other ways to crimp how long you tune in. — Follow @@joan_e
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Gingrich Will Be Back in the ‘Crossfire’ on CNN — ARLINGTON, Va. — In defeat, the 2012 Republican presidential hopefuls have mostly faded from view, in ways that seem true to type. Mitt Romney is a contented grandfather. Rick Santorum is head of a Christian movie company.
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Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
ThaiPublica: Investigative journalism and ‘cute’ interactives — A look at an investigative news site for Thailand inspired by ProPublica — ThaiPublica looks to uncover stories relating to the government, business and finance — Copyright: Image by katerha on Flickr. Some rights reserved
Jeff Clabaugh / Washington Business Journal:
DOJ seeks more information on Gannett TV station acquisitions — McLean-based Gannett Co. Inc. says the Department of Justice has requested additional information on its planned $2.2 billion acquisition of Dallas-based Belo Corp. and its 20 television stations. — A second request extends the regulatory review process.
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
New York Times experiments with tweetable highlights in ‘SNL’ story — Dave Itzkoff's oral history of “Saturday Night Live” auditions has a new feature for a New York Times article page: highlighted sentences that you can click to tweet. — “It's a one-off experiment on this story,” …
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Tal Kopan / Politico:
Media group asks AG to remove Risen subpoena — Nearly four dozen media organizations wrote a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday asking him to withdraw the Justice Department's subpoena of New York Times reporter James Risen in a leak case.
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Lack of television cameras in UK courts ‘shameful’, says ITN executive — John Battle, head of compliance at producer of ITV News and Channel 4 News, says it is ‘ludicrous’ to rely on court sketches — A TV camera filming an artist's court drawing of BBC journalist Susan Watts giving evidence …
Judith Rosen / Publishers Weekly:
PM Launches E-book Bundling Program — PM Press in Oakland, Calif., is the first book publisher to bundle free e-books with nearly every one of the physical books purchased on its Web site. Its new Paperback Plus! program had a soft launch earlier this month.
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