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Sara Morrison / The Wrap:
Globe and Mail Erroneously Claims Ex-NSA Chief Michael Hayden Killed at LAX — In yet another in a long list of major breaking news errors committed by major news outlets, Canada's Globe and Mail falsely reported that ex-NSA chief Michael Hayden was killed in Friday's shooting at the Los Angeles International Airport.
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Associated Press, Poynter, Gawker, PandoDaily, The Verge, Mediaite, @efleischer, @latimesrainey, @dylanbyers and FishbowlNY
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Are breaking news mistakes even worth covering anymore? … After Aurora, Colo. shooting; after the Supreme Court's healthcare ruling; after the Boston manhunt — should we even bother covering the media's mistakes anymore? Getting it wrong seems to have become the industry standard.
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Washington Post, Guild reach tentative agreement — Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild News Co-Chair Fredrick Kunkle says in a Facebook post that The Washington Post and its union members “have reached tentative agreement on a new contract.” All Guild members will get a raise under the proposed agreement.
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Machinima, the YouTube Giant Looking for New Money, Is Also Looking for a New CEO — Machinima, the giant YouTube network that caters to gamers, is looking for a new chief executive — at the same time it is trying to close a big funding round. — Allen DeBevoise, the company's co-founder …
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The Wrap, Los Angeles Times, @pkafka, Tubefilter, Variety and VideoInk
Dylan Byers / Politico:
President Obama, off the record — President Barack Obama is often accused of being insular. He's not a schmoozer. He doesn't like meeting with lawmakers, and he doesn't particularly care for talking to reporters, either. — But get him in an off-the-record setting with a small group …
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National Review, @politico, @kirstenpowers10, Hit & Run, @thomas_drake1 and @jgreendc
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Andy Coulson was warned that buying palace phone book was illegal, jury told — Phone-hacking trial hears that News of the World reporter told editor ‘criminal charges’ could result from payment to police — Andy Coulson was warned in an email from a reporter on the News of the World that he could face …
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Press Gazette, Kirk LaPointe's … and BBC
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Dominic Casciani / BBC:
Phone-hacking trial: Andy Coulson told editor ‘do his phone’
Phone-hacking trial: Andy Coulson told editor ‘do his phone’
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Press Association, BBC, Hacked Off, Guardian, Reuters, Reuters, @bbcnews and Guardian
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
The NYT's paywall overtakes digital ads — Meantime, the Globe's drag on the Times, quantified — It was only a little more than two years ago that the conventional wisdom said The New York Times shouldn't—or couldn't—charge online. — You don't hear that anymore with the massive success …
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Capital New York, paidContent, @anunou and Bloomberg
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
FCC may end blackout rules, but games may still be blacked out online — The FCC may finally get rid of its decades-old blackout rules for live sports broadcasts. Unfortunately, that still doesn't mean that any of these games will be available online. — The Federal Communications Commission …
Sam Kirkland / Poynter:
New iPad Air comes closer to all-in-one reporting device for mobile journalists — Mobile journalists — those who report on the ground and file stories at Starbucks, for instance — should be tempted by the iPad Air. While it's unlikely to revolutionize on-the-go computing …
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TechCrunch, Guardian and Softpedia News
Emily Bell / Guardian:
US journalism makes break with market forces — Guardian US, Jeff Bezos's WaPo deal and Glenn Greenwald's new venture highlight the growing power of the non-profit sector — Something shocking has happened to US journalism: it has parted company with the free market.
Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:
Andrew Sullivan's Dish hits 30,880 subs and $791k in revenue, with jump thanks to government shutdown — Andrew Sullivan, who took his popular politics blog the Dish independent and added a metered paywall in January, hoped to pull in $900,000 in subscription revenues to keep the site up and running in 2013.
Jim Romenesko:
GateHouse's Times Herald-Record lays off all four of its staff photographers — In early September, News Corp. sold its Dow Jones Local Media Group — 33 newspapers — to the majority shareholder of GateHouse Media. — I'm getting reports today of “bloodbaths” at some of the former Dow Jones papers.
Jennifer Saba / Reuters:
FT Chief Ridding: no plans to kill its pink pages — (Reuters) - The Financial Times plans to retain its famously salmon-hued print edition even as it aggressively ramps up digital distribution, its chief executive said in an interview. — FT Group CEO John Ridding said a “digital first” …