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Understanding the New York Times hack — Hackers — most likely the Syrian Electronic Army — attacked The New York Times' website Tuesday, complicating access for many users. In an email to Poynter, Times spokesperson Eileen Murphy writes the “situation is close to being fully resolved.”
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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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Syrian Electronic Army Responsible for New York Times Website Crash
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The Next Web, Twitter Status, Business Insider, Lawfare, GalleyCat, The Verge, Los Angeles Times, VentureBeat, @corybe, BBC, Guardian, FishbowlNY, WebProNews, @noir, @dylanbyers, TechCrunch, Los Angeles Times, Mediaite and Hillicon Valley

Hackers had Melbourne IT reseller credentials to attack NYT, Twitter
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New York Times and Forbes


ABC News Reopens Bureau in Beirut — ABC News has reopened a bureau in Beirut, Lebanon. Alexander Marquardt who covers the region for the network will be based there. The Beirut bureau is in addition to ABC's long-standing base in Jerusalem. ABC's first Beirut bureau was opened 45 years ago by a young Peter Jennings.
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Politico, @williamsjon, The Huffington Post and @marquardta
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As Syria Attack Looms, Few U.S. News Outlets Report From Damascus — NEW YORK — When Syrian foreign minister Walid Muallem held a news conference Tuesday in the capital city of Damascus, Wall Street Journal reporter Sam Dagher asked about the government's reaction to reports of chemical weapons use.
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NBCNews, @jpeyron, BBC and Press Gazette


Gannett cuts jobs at some local papers … A company spokesman says the papers “are making cuts to align their business plans with local market conditions.” — CONNECT — Gannett, owner of 82 daily newspapers and 23 television stations, confirmed Tuesday that some of its local papers have cut staff over the last several weeks.
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The Wrap, Guardian, @brianstelter, @niemanlab and Gannett Blog

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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bizjournals, @karaswisher, @thestalwart, @felixsalmon, Journalism.org, @themarkberman, @ravmike, @anildash, @ferenstein, eMedia Vitals, GigaOM, It's a Gadget, Fortune, ZDNet, FishbowlNY, @nytimesbits and Talking Biz News


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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Broadcasting & Cable, The Verge and CNET
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The Time Warner Cable TV App For Xbox 360 Is Now Available, With Access To 300 Channels
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VentureBeat, @wxfritter, Variety and Engadget


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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Kirk LaPointe's …, @wilsoncleveland, @cpen, @om, @nytimesbits and eMedia Vitals

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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Beet.TV and Hollywood Reporter


Arianna Goes (Even More) Global: HuffPost Live Launches WorldPost in Berggruen Institute Partnership — HuffPost Live Host Ahmed Shihab-Eldin speaking with Mehdi Hasan, political director of HuffPost UK. — HuffPost Live, the Huffington Post's live-streaming network, is adding a new editorial element …


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, BBC, RTTNews, Guardian and The Drum


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, The Next Web, Mashable, @robertcaruso, eMedia Vitals, New York Times and The Drum


Kindle Paperwhite Wi-Fi is out of stock. New e-readers on the way? — Amazon's Kindle Paperwhite Wi-Fi is out of stock, suggesting that new models may be on the way. — It's been about a year since Amazon launched the front-lit Kindle Paperwhite, and the company plans to introduce new tablets this fall …
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Courting All Bookworms, Kobo Debuts 3 New Reading-Friendly Arc Tablets, A New Aura E-Reader …
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Zite's Personalized News App Comes To Google Glass — ZITE JOINS ITS PARENT COMPANY CNN WITH AN APP OF ITS OWN FOR THE WEARABLE HEADSET. — Mark Johnson is possibly the only person in the world who has gone through two pairs of Google Glass in five weeks.
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Forbes, TechCrunch, Adweek, VentureBeat and ReadWrite


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.


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, The Wrap, @jamesfallows, @ezraklein, @richarddeitsch, @jayrosen_nyu, The Raw Story and The Huffington Post
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Sally Quinn ‘appalled’ by Kurtz column
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