Mediagazer: Wikipedia editors, locked in battle with PR firm, delete 250 accounts (Joe Mullin/Ars Technica)

10:20 AM ET, October 22, 2013

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Mariko Yasu / Bloomberg:

Apple Preparing 65-Inch TV for Release in 2014, Analyst Says — Apple Inc. (AAPL) will probably start selling ultra-high definition televisions with 65- and 55-inch screens during the fourth quarter of next year, according to a Tokyo-based analyst at Advanced Research Japan Co.

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

AP Fires Third Employee Over Terry McAuliffe Mistake; Guild ‘Alarmed’ — NEW YORK — The News Media Guild, which represents employees of The Associated Press, responded Tuesday to the recent firing of journalists involved in a retracted story about Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe.

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Erik Wemple: AP owes public a better explanation of McAuliffe mistake

Christine Haughney / New York Times:

Staff of Washington Post Bids Farewell to Grahams — WASHINGTON — The Graham family said goodbye to The Washington Post after eight decades of ownership with an emotional send-off reception on Monday night for roughly 650 current and former employees at its downtown headquarters.

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Jonathan Freedland / Guardian:

Facebook has got it spectacularly wrong on beheading videos — So now we know. In Facebook's world, a beheading is OK but an exposed nipple is not. The social media behemoth has decided that a 13-year-old - for that is the permitted minimum age of a Facebook user - can watch a video of a decapitation …

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Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:

BuzzFeed Hires Pulitzer Winner to Head Investigative Unit — BuzzFeed, the media Web site focused on viral content, announced on Monday that it was again expanding its reporting staff, this time to introduce an investigative unit. A new team of about half a dozen reporters will be led by Mark Schoofs …

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Greg Toppo / USA Today:

Chalkbeat covers education as a non-profit news site — A handful of refugees from print journalism are providing an alternative model for covering state and local schools. — CONNECT — Here's a phrase you don't hear much: newsroom expansion. — That's the goal of a new non-profit …

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Sam Gustin / TIME:

Google Unveils Tools to Access Web From Repressive Countries — The tech titan is introducing products to track Internet attacks and aid free expression — Google Ideas, the New York City-based “think/do tank” run by the Internet search giant, is launching several new technologies designed …

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Reuters:

U.S. high court declines to hear privacy lawsuit against Thomson Reuters — (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider whether a unit of Thomson Reuters Corp can obtain and sell information on drivers provided by state agencies without violating a federal privacy law.

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Associated Press:

Associated Press CEO: Press freedom v. security a ‘false choice’ — DENVER — Governments that try to force citizens to decide between a free press and national security create a “false choice” that weakens democracy, and journalists must fight increasing government overreach …

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

Wikipedia editors, locked in battle with PR firm, delete 250 accounts — Investigation follows reports that Wiki-PR scored Viacom, Priceline as clients. — Wikipedia editors have disabled hundreds of paid Wikipedia editing accounts in recent weeks as part of a campaign against so-called “sockpuppetry.”

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Mark Sweney / Guardian:

YouTube video channel SB.TV wins private equity backing — Youth lifestyle broadcaster started by Jamal Edwards when he was just 16 is valued at £8m after Miroma Ventures investment — Jamal Edwards's popular YouTube video channel SB.TV is to bring on board its first private equity backer …

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Pioneer Press paywall coming Nov. 1 — Star Tribune reporter Rachel E. Stassen-Berger tweeted a picture of a letter she received explaining the changes: “On November 1, the Pioneer Press, like many other newspapers, will begin charging for our exclusive content on TwinCities.com, mobile …

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