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Eric Newton / Columbia Journalism Review:
Paying attention to the shield law's critics — Journalists shouldn't blindly support the shield law without taking in the whole picture — When a Senate committee this month approved the “Free Flow of Information Act of 2013,” applause was heard from scores of media shield law supporters …
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BuzzMachine and @jeffjarvis
Gavriel Hollander / Press Gazette:
News Corp reveals phone-hacking legal costs of £238m — Rupert Murdoch's media empire has spent $382m (£238m) over the past two years on legal fees dealing with the aftermath of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal. — In its annual report, released over the weekend …
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FishbowlNY, @colvinius and @jeffjarvis
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
News Corp's plunging revenues concealed by subtle accountancy
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Crikey, afr.com and Sydney Morning Herald
Dominic Rushe / Guardian:
NSA surveillance goes beyond Orwell's imagination - Alan Rusbridger — Guardian editor says depth of NSA surveillance programs greatly exceed anything the 1984 author could have imagined — The potential of the surveillance state goes way beyond anything in George Orwell's 1984 …
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@jeffjarvis and @rupertmyers
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Chris Elliott / Guardian:
Open door: The readers' editor on... the Guardian's coverage of government surveillance
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The Drum
Christopher Heine / Adweek:
Will iTunes Radio Spark Digital Music Shakeout? — There appeared to be an overabundance of digital music streaming services before Apple's iTunes Radio became a reality last week, so it stands to reason that a shakeout—if it wasn't already on the horizon—could now be only a matter of time.
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Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg:
Pandora Falls 10% as Apple ITunes Radio Draws 11 Million
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USA Today, @jaredbkeller and Inc.com
Paul Carr / PandoDaily:
To “save NSFWCORP”, founder publicly solicits investors on first day of loosened SEC rules — A change in fundraising law, but is there still time to save NSFWCORP from a forced pivot? — You've seen it, of course. “Brewster's Millions,” the movie — so popular that Hollywood remade …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
In Supreme Court Opinions, Web Links That Go Nowhere — WASHINGTON — Supreme Court opinions have come down with a bad case of link rot. According to a new study, 49 percent of the hyperlinks in Supreme Court decisions no longer work. — This can sometimes be amusing.
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@stoweboyd, @holdenweb and The Verge
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Former F.B.I. Agent Pleads Guilty in Leak to A.P. — WASHINGTON — A former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent has agreed to plead guilty to leaking classified information to The Associated Press about a foiled bomb plot in Yemen last year, the Justice Department announced on Monday.
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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Hub of the Twitterverse: The Boston Globe has built a localized, tweet-powered news aggregator — In the Boston area, the passing of a Dunkin Donuts franchise is news. So are the finer points of Tom Brady's hair. But in this instance, we know the closing of the Mass Ave.
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paidContent, @geninnovate and @niemanlab
Melanie Grayce West / Wall Street Journal:
Publishing Family Funds Business Journalism Center at CUNY — With a $3 million gift from the Harold W. McGraw Jr. Family Foundation, the City University of New York's graduate school of journalism will get a center for business journalism. The gift, to be announced Tuesday …
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Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:
Spotify Launches In Taiwan, Argentina, Greece and Turkey — Spotify has launched in Argentina, Greece, Turkey and Taiwan, bringing its streaming music platform to a total of 32 countries. — The heart of the Mandopop (Mandarin pop) industry, Taiwan marks the latest step in Spotify's Asia expansion …
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The Next Web, Hollywood Reporter, Wall Street Journal and Music Week
Steven Musil / CNET:
Judge appears to back Google's defense of digital books project — Judge's comments suggest he finds merit in the Web giant's assertion that the project is exempt from copyright laws under the fair use provision. — A U.S. judge made comments Monday that suggest favor for Google's defense …
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Forbes, Reuters, The Atlantic Wire, paidContent and Bloomberg
Rem Rieder / USA Today:
TV news should have on-air fact-checkers — You don't usually think of ESPN's Tony Kornheiser as a journalism ethics sage. A font of sports one-liners, sure. An adviser on ways to improve news outlets' accountability, not so much. But the co-host of Pardon the Interruption is on to something …
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