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Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Times Web Site Affected by External Hacking Attack — The New York Times Web site was unavailable to readers on Tuesday afternoon following an attack on the company's domain name registrar, Melbourne IT. The attack also required employees of The Times to stop sending out sensitive e-mails.
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The Atlantic Wire:
Syrian Electronic Army Responsible for New York Times Website Crash
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John Herrman / BuzzFeed:
Wall Street Journal Kicks The New York Times While It's Down
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Michael Lee / ZDNet:
Hackers had Melbourne IT reseller credentials to attack NYT, Twitter
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Felix Salmon / Reuters:
Can Rupert Murdoch hold on to Kara Swisher? — Who is the best journalist (so far) of the new millennium? Who has best embraced the opportunities afforded by digital media, and used them to deliver breaking news and incisive opinion to the greatest effect? Put like that, it's hard to wind up with any name other than Kara Swisher.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Pari Bradlee and the brilliance of Fox News's Howard Kurtz — No one cared about the Facebook photos of one Pari Bradlee. No one cared that one of them portrayed her in a “Swiss-cheese bra.” No one cared that another showed her posing nude, “shot from the back, twisting one arm behind her.”
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Sally Quinn ‘appalled’ by Kurtz column
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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Time Warner Cable's new Xbox app won't count against data caps — Time Warner Cable launched a new app on the Xbox 360 Tuesday that gives subscribers of the pay TV provider access to live feeds from up to 300 TV channels, including programming from networks like ABC, FOX and Comedy Central.
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Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:
The Time Warner Cable TV App For Xbox 360 Is Now Available, With Access To 300 Channels — The TWC TV app for Xbox Live, which was announced back in June, is now available for download from the Xbox Live Marketplace. Microsoft's partnership with Time Warner Cable is a significant part …
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Google Makes Its Apple TV-Killer More Appealing for Apple Owners — Nice timing: On the same day that Apple upgraded Apple TV by adding more content to its Web TV box, Google upgrades Chromecast, its Apple TV competitor — by making it more appealing to Apple users.
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Al Jazeera America Launch Ratings — Al Jazeera America launched last week, and we have the ratings from Nielsen for its first few days. — Not surprisingly given the low-rated channel it replaced (Current TV), and the fact that it lost a few million homes from AT&T before launch …
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Dimitra DeFotis / Tech Trader Daily:
Tivo Earnings Hit Positive Post-Settlement Milestone, CEO Says — TiVo shares rallied after the close when it released results that exceeded its guidance — before including legal settlements with Cisco and Motorola. — Shares of TiVo (TIVO) were up 19 cents, or nearly 2% …
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Huffington Post deletes 75 percent of incoming comments — The Huffington Post will soon no longer allow anonymous comments. In a post published Monday afternoon, HuffPost Media Group Managing Editor Jimmy Soni said the news organization “recognizes that many people are not in a professional …
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@themediaisdying, @poynter, The Newspaper Guild and The Huffington Post
J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
Brian Lewis Speaks Out: Roger Ailes and Fox News Should Fear Him — Brian Lewis's attorney Judd Burstein just provided this statement to Gawker: … Fox News President Roger Ailes fired Lewis in late July following accusations of “financial irregularities” and “multiple, material and significant breaches of his employment contract.”
Dorothy Otieno / Data Driven Journalism:
Data Journalism in Kenya: Introducing Data Dredger — Two years ago Kenya launched the Kenya Open Data Initiative (KODI). It was a first for sub-Saharan Africa. — For the first time Kenyans would access and interrogate government data from their computer terminals, and cell phones.
Sara Morrison / The Wrap:
Michael Hastings' Family Chides Media for Inaccuracies, Guards His Legacy — The BuzzFeed reporter's legacy of fearlessly confronting powerful institutions will be remembered by his family, friends and an annual fellowship for journalists like him — In the wake of the L …
Nate Raymond / Reuters:
U.S. judge wants external monitor for Apple in e-books case — NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge weighing remedies to assure that Apple Inc does not fix prices again in the e-books market said on Tuesday that she plans to require it to hire an external monitor, something the company considers unnecessary.
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Bloomberg:
Twitter Hires Commerce Chief to Add Shopping Via Tweets — Twitter Inc. hired Nathan Hubbard, the former president of Ticketmaster, as its first head of commerce, part of a push to enable shopping via short postings on its social website. — Hubbard, 38, started at San Francisco-based Twitter this week …
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