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Leonard Downie Jr / Committee to Protect Journalists:
The Obama Administration and the Press — Leak investigations and surveillance in post-9/11 America — U.S. President Barack Obama came into office pledging open government, but he has fallen short of his promise. Journalists and transparency advocates say the White House curbs routine disclosure …
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Mediashift, Columbia Journalism Review, Associated Press, Free Press, Erik Wemple, Guardian, Wired, RT, @cpjinternet, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, US News, thenation.com/blogs/174784, @pierre, IRE.org, Al Jazeera America, GlobalPost, TechPresident, Firedoglake, Boing Boing, Guardian, @ggreenwald, @froomkin, @rj_gallagher, @pressfreedom and @westwingreport
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Tow Center for Digital Journalism:
The Effects of Mass Surveillance on Journalism — Mass surveillance of the kind practiced by the NSA produces a chilling effect on journalism, because sources do not feel they can have a private conversation with a reporter. That's the message of a group of scholars, journalists …
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@evacide, @timkarr and Committee to Protect …
AllThingsD:
Vivian Schiller Is a Lock as Twitter's Head of News — Vivian Schiller, NBC News' SVP and chief digital officer, is being tapped for Twitter's head of news position, according to sources familiar with the matter. AllThingsD reported last week that she was the leading pick for the high-profile job.
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FishbowlNY, Betabeat, The Verge, @andreahong, @edcauchi and @mikeisaac
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Obama Administration Has Gone To Unprecedented Lengths To Thwart Journalists, Report Finds — NEW YORK — Leonard Downie spent more than four decades at The Washington Post, including 17 years as the paper's top editor, and has heard plenty of grumbling from reporters blocked from access to government information.
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Poynter, Committee to Protect … and @ggreenwald
Ruth Bazinet / Medium:
Twitter's New Media Evangelist Needs More Than 1,200 Tweets
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@janetaronica, @harrisj, @jaredbkeller, @craigsilverman, @aureliacotta, @antderosa, @kingisafink, @joshsternberg, @mathewi, @aureliacotta and @rajunarisetti
Ted Johnson / Variety:
Aereo Supreme Court Review: Broadcasters Will File Petition — Justices will have to choose between taking case or letting legal proceedings play out further Broadcasters plan to petition the U.S. Supreme Court to review lower court rulings that have allowed Aereo to continue offering unauthorized streams …
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Broadcasting & Cable, TechCrunch, Forbes, The Verge, Associated Press, Radio & Television …, GigaOM, AfterDawn.com, Consumerist, CNET, CNET, Engadget and Deadline.com
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Broadcasters Denied Injunction Against Aereo in Massachusetts — The ruling comes as stations are prepared to take the fight against the TV streaming service to the Supreme Court. — Aereo has won an important ruling in a Massachusetts federal court. — U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gorton …
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multichannel.com/rss, AdAge, CNET, bizjournals, Reuters, Plagiarism Today and Variety
Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:
Aereo's TV streaming service coming to Android devices on October 22
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PC Magazine, Broadcasting & Cable, VentureBeat, Mashable, The Verge, The Next Web, @jeffjohnroberts and VatorNews
Jim Romenesko:
[UPDATED] Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News alums call for review of Bill Marimow's dismissal — Update: Philadelphia Inquirer co-owners Lewis Katz and Gerry Lenfest have sued their company over editor Bill Marimow's firing. The two say that publisher Bob Hall didn't consult them before dismissing Marimow.
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@romenesko, facebook.com, NewsWorks and Philadelphia City Paper
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Associated Press:
2 Philly Inquirer owners sue company, publisher — 2 Philly Inquirer owners sue company, publisher over editor's firing; seek Marimow's return — PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two owners of The Philadelphia Inquirer have sued their company and publisher over the firing of Pulitzer Prize-winning editor Bill Marimow.
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Newspapers plan EU legal action if they are penalised for regulation stance — Publishers fear increased costs in libel and privacy actions if they do not back government's royal charter-backed regulator — The country's largest newspaper groups plan to mount a European legal challenge …
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Patrick Smith / The MediaBriefing:
The many unanswered questions of the UK's press regulation shambles
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Guardian and Big News Network.com
Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
Twitter Appears To Be Exploring Personalized Breaking News Notifications With @Eventparrot Experiment — Twitter appears to be exploring introducing breaking news notifications tuned for you to its apps, if a new experimental account is any indication. An account called @eventparrot …
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The Next Web, AllThingsD, BuzzFeed, VentureBeat, Associated Press, CNET, GeekWire, The Switch, The Verge, TechnoBuffalo, Digits, Engadget, Pocket-lint, Mashable, WebProNews and Softpedia News
Rem Rieder / USA Today:
Patch.com reporter faces jail for doing his job — A judge in Illinois has ordered a reporter to reveal a confidential source. — CONNECT — Joseph Hosey is facing jail time for simply doing his job. — Hosey, a reporter for Patch.com in Illinois, has balked at an order to reveal the identity of a confidential source.
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@mikescarcella
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Follow-up on Flipboard: We can't pay salaries with ‘brand awareness’ — Are Operations Like Flipboard Scams Against Publishers? — Since we'd gotten a number of questions from readers, I jotted down a short post a couple days ago explaining that we've removed TPM from Flipboard …
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Nieman Journalism Lab, @coudal, @choire and @politicalwire
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Freedom Communications will buy Riverside Press-Enterprise — Freedom Communications, Inc., which owns the Orange County Register, has agreed to purchase The (Riverside, Calif.) Press-Enterprise, the O.C. Register's Mary Ann Milbourn reports. Freedom will pay $27.25 million for the paper, which is currently owned by A.H. Belo.
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PE.com, Orange County Register, Biz Beat Blog and WPRI.com Blogs
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
For Journalists Who Seek Out Hidden Things, a More Visible Brand — A LEADING nonprofit organization in the field of investigative journalism is getting a free branding and advertising campaign, courtesy of a leading creative agency. — How did the organization, the Center for Investigative Reporting …
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@philbronstein and The Center for …
Spiegel Online:
Huffington Post Germany Faces Resistance from Skeptical Readers — Arianna Huffington hopes to replicate the success of her other international blog and aggregation sites in Germany — but she may face more resistance here than in other countries. — The latest international edition …
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