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Jonathan Franklin / Truthout:
Exclusive Glenn Greenwald Interview: “I Won't Be Kept Out of My Country for Doing Journalism!” — Glenn Greenwald, the US lawyer-turned-blogger-turned- journalist, has been writing about state-sponsored repression, surveillance, torture and leaks for years. He has four best-selling books …
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@glynmoody, @whenpigsflyyy and The Huffington Post
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Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
To make journalism harder, slower, less secure — That's what the surveillance state is trying to do. It has the means, the will and the latitude to go after journalism the way it went after terrorism. Only a more activist press, working together, stands a chance of resisting this.
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@hannahhaniya, GigaOM, @wblau, @conor64, Free Press, @niemanlab, The Huffington Post, Guardian, @joshuafoust, Kirk LaPointe's …, BuzzFeed and New York Times
Laura Poitras / Spiegel Online:
Miranda Detention: ‘Blatant Attack on Press Freedom’
Miranda Detention: ‘Blatant Attack on Press Freedom’
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@pandymonium01, @kenroth, @aljavieera, @astradisastra and @runasand
New York Times:
To Protect Its Empire, ESPN Stays on Offense — ESPN likes to call itself the Worldwide Leader in Sports, and by most every measure it is in a league of its own. The network produced 35,000 hours of programming in 2012, including at least half of all live athletic events televised in the United States.
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@oldhossradbourn, @marcatracy, @newhousenoj, @espnbook, @kevinq, @richsandomir, @rayburnc and @derekwillis
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Dean Starkman / Columbia Journalism Review:
ESPN's journalism problem
James Grubel / Reuters:
Australian press watchdog chides Murdoch media — Australia's newspaper regulator on Tuesday weighed in on a row over bias by Rupert Murdoch's newspapers in the country's election campaign, telling editors to provide an accurate account of public issues. — The Australian arm …
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Sydney Morning Herald and @davidfolkenflik
Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:
Barnes & Noble retail CEO Klipper just sold most of his stock in the company — Barnes & Noble's retail CEO, Mitchell Klipper, has sold off a large portion of his stock in the company in the past few days, according to an SEC filing. — Klipper sold about 400,000 shares from his 401(k) …
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Retail Digital, Reuters, Publishers Lunch and Wall Street Journal
Taylor Owen / Tow Center for Digital Journalism:
The Tow Center Announces First Round of Tow/ Knight Research Projects — Over the past few months we have been putting together an exciting new program of research, the Tow/Knight Projects, marking a first for us at the Tow Center, the Columbia Journalism School, and the changing field of journalism.
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@towcenter, @emilybell and @digiphile
Cindy Royal / Mediashift:
We Need a Digital-First Curriculum to Teach Modern Journalism — At the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in Washington, D.C., earlier this month, one panel addressed adding programming skills to the curriculum: “Why All Your Students Must Be Programmers.”
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@pbsmediashift, @stevebuttry and @derekwillis, Thanks:@pbsmediashift
Jack Dickey / TIME:
Olbermann's New Sports Talkshow Pulls No Punches (Well, Maybe Just a Couple) — God bless Keith Olbermann; the man always comes out swinging. — Olbermann, his daily hourlong talk show, debuted live Monday night on ESPN2 without introductory credits. It seemed like a glitch.
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Mediaite, Deadspin, The Atlantic Wire, The Big Lead, The Daily Beast, Deadline.com, The Huffington Post, Variety, Los Angeles Times, The Wrap and New York Times
Hannah Karp / Wall Street Journal:
Sirius Is Sued Over Music Royalties for Pre-1972 Recordings — The entity that collects performance royalties from digital music services—and distributes them to performers and record labels—sued satellite-radio giant Sirius XM Radio Inc. for allegedly refusing to pay for recordings made prior to 1972.
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Reuters, Billboard, AllAccess.com, SlashGear and @ethanwsj
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Open Secret About Google's Surveillance Case No Longer Secret — The Justice Department recently won a court battle to keep an Internet company from talking about federal demands for user data, arguing that even disclosing the company's name would damage national security.'
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@mattcutts, @rohanjay, @ramez, Techdirt, Daily Dot, @occupywallstnyc, @antderosa, The Verge, CNET and ZDNet
Kevin Roderick / LA Observed:
Dick Gordon leaving public radio's ‘The Story’ — “The Story,” the nationally syndicated public radio news interview program produced at North Carolina Public Radio-WUNC, will air for the last time on October 11. Long-time host Dick Gordon “plans to return to his native Canada …
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WUNC, @babesofnpr, @wunc, @smalljones, @shiplives, @alexschelldorf and @tweetreinhard
Michael Depp / NetNewsCheck Latest:
For Media Cos., CMS World Gets Complex — Content Management Systems serving the local media industry have taken a quantum leap forward, and choosing the right CMS has become more complicated than ever. Media companies have some difficult choices when it comes to choosing a CMS …
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eMedia Vitals