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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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@nycjim, @stefanjbecket and TechCrunch
Michael Lee / ZDNet:
Hackers had Melbourne IT reseller credentials to attack NYT, Twitter
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Forbes
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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@thestalwart, @karaswisher, @ferenstein, @anildash, @themarkberman, @felixsalmon and @ravmike
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Patrick Smith / TheMediaBriefing:
Johnston Press expects mobile future as print takes £250m hit — By 2015 mobile and tablet devices will account for one third of Johnston Press's entire audience by 2015 - including print - according to CEO Ashley Highfield. And it's a good thing too, as the company swung …
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Press Gazette, Guardian, BBC, RTTNews and The Drum
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
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VentureBeat, @wxfritter, Broadcasting & Cable, Variety and Engadget
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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Gawker, City Desk, @aseitzwald, @jamesfallows, @ezraklein, @richarddeitsch, @jayrosen_nyu, The Wrap, The Raw Story and The Huffington Post
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Sally Quinn ‘appalled’ by Kurtz column
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Fox News, @jamisonfoser, @feldmaniac, @mattgertz, @maxblumenthal, Mediaite, Mediaite and The Huffington Post
Pascale Paoli-Lebailly / Rapid TV News:
France Télévisions to axe 600 jobs, cut spending and boost digital — Rémy Pflimlin, France Télévisions president, who aims to bring his group's finances back to balance in 2015, is confident about the company's current reforms and cost reduction strategy …
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Hollywood Reporter
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Vine gets better with age: How screens, speed and networks are changing the future of online video — Earlier this morning when sitting in the San Diego Airport while waiting for my flight, I did what most people do these days in those situations — I peered into my phone and cycled through my various social media applications.
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@om, @wilsoncleveland, @nytimesbits and @cpen
Simon Rogers / Twitter Blog:
The New York Times tests a new Tweet feature — Last week, The New York Times (@nytimes) experimented with a new feature that highlights quotes and sentences within a story, and in one click turns those sentences into Tweets. — The story they chose, “The God of ‘SNL’ Will See You Now,” …
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@lowresolution, New York Times, The Next Web and Mashable
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.
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
The Guardian's Android and iPhone apps now offer free ad-supported and premium access — The Guardian newspaper may be rejecting the temptation to fully move behind a metered paywall, but the publication has announced that its iPhone and Android apps are adopting a new unified freemium model from today.
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The Guardian
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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Mediaite and The Huffington Post
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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Multichannel News, Wall Street Journal, Hollywood Reporter, Bloomberg and Reuters
Vibhuti Agarwal / India Real Time:
Worrying Trend in Journalists' Murders … Four journalists have been killed in Uttar Pradesh in northern India in the last two months, according to local police and media groups, raising fears that press freedom in the world's biggest democracy is increasingly at risk.
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Times of India, Reporters Without Borders and @wsjindia
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 and The Newspaper Guild
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.
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