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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
CBS News' Lara Logan Taking Leave Of Absence Over Discredited ‘60 Minutes’ Benghazi Report — NEW YORK — Jeff Fager, chairman of CBS News and executive producer of '"60 Minutes," informed staff Tuesday that Lara Logan and her producer, Max McClellan, would be taking a leave of absence following …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Lara Logan No Longer Hosting CPJ Dinner — NEW YORK — CBS News correspondent Lara Logan will no longer be hosting the annual press freedom awards dinner hosted by the Committee to Protect Journalists on Tuesday night, as she had long been scheduled to do. — Logan's appearance …
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Richard Johnson / Page Six:
Pack your bags, Alec! MSNBC fires Baldwin over anti-gay slurs — Alec Baldwin has been fired by MSNBC, sources say. The rage-aholic's weekly show, “Up Late With Alec Baldwin,” has been canceled because of the actor's foul-mouthed rant at a photographer he called a nasty name. “The decision has been made.
Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal:
Cox Explores Bidding for Time Warner Cable — Cox Communications is contemplating jumping into the bidding for Time Warner Cable Inc., say people familiar with the situation, either on its own or with others. — Cox is the third biggest cable operator, after Time Warner Cable …
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John McDuling / Quartz:
Why everyone wants to buy America's least liked cable company — Time Warner Cable is America's least liked cable provider, and its second least liked internet service provider, in terms of customer satisfaction. It's bearing the brunt of the cord-cutting phenomenon, hemorrhaging customers faster …
Rachel Bartlett / Journalism.co.uk:
CNN shares Instagram images from the ground on new Scenes platform — Broadcaster CNN has launched a new online platform where it will share Instagram images from its journalists across the world, giving a glimpse of life on the ground, and behind the headlines.
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Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Julian Assange unlikely to face U.S. charges over publishing classified documents — The Justice Department has all but concluded it will not bring charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for publishing classified documents because government lawyers said they could not do so without …
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Ed Pilkington / Guardian:
Julian Assange lawyer calls on US to make formal decision on prosecution
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Corynne McSherry / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Girls Against Boys: What's Wrong With the (Latest) Beastie Boys Lawsuit — “Oh no!” said the email that went round the EFF office on Friday. Could it be true that the Beastie Boys had unleashed the legal hounds to shut down a parody ad that uses the group's classic misogynistic ditty, “Girls”?
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Danny Hakim / New York Times:
Error in WHO report sparks media storm; wrongly said half of Greek HIV cases “self-inflicted” — Health Group Retracts Claim That ‘Self-Inflicted’ H.I.V.' Is Common in Greece — LONDON — The news spread like wildfire after the World Health Organization reported that about half …
Jim Romenesko:
David Skok is named Boston Globe Digital Adviser to the Editor — David Skok, director of Globalnews.ca and co-author of “Breaking News: Mastering the art of disruptive innovation in journalism,” is joining the Boston Globe as digital adviser to the editor. — David Skok
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Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Paul Carr talks about why NSFW Corp. failed — but also what it almost got right — It may have gone unnoticed in mainstream media circles, but the death of entrepreneur Paul Carr's NSFW Corp. on Monday caused more than a few tremors in the world of new-media startups …
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Thomas Fuller / New York Times:
In Myanmar, Newly Free Media Struggle to Turn a Profit — YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar's journalists celebrated this year when the government lifted a five-decade ban on private newspapers. — But six months after a dozen dailies rushed into production, journalists who had withstood the wrath …
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Emily Brill / ChinaFile:
Former Committee to Protect Journalists Honoree Says Bloomberg Chief Should Not Chair Press Freedom Dinner — A prominent Hong Kong-based journalist has called on Daniel Doctoroff, Chief Executive Officer of Bloomberg L.P., to step down from his role as chairman of the Committee to Protect Journalists' …
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