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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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Politico, @mlcalderone and Mother Jones
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.
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Waxy.org:
Goldieblox and the Three MCs — Everyone thinks they know how copyright works, and everyone's usually wrong. Who can blame them? It's often counterintuitive, inconsistent, and riddled with grey areas and edge cases. — And no area of copyright law is more confusing than fair use …
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Corynne McSherry / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Girls Against Boys: What's Wrong With the (Latest) Beastie Boys Lawsuit
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Hugo Miller / Bloomberg:
Rogers Reaches $4.9 Billion NHL Deal for Broadcasting Rights — Photographer: Bruce Bennett/Getty Images — Rogers Communications Inc. (RCI/B), Canada's largest wireless carrier, reached a 12-year, C$5.2 billion ($4.9 billion) deal with the National Hockey League for broadcasting rights …
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David George-Cosh / Canada Real Time:
Rogers-NHL Deal a Blow to Canada's Public Broadcaster — Privacy Policy » Search Canada Real Time1 — Rogers Communications Inc.'s blockbuster 5.2 billion Canadian dollar ($4.93 billion) media-rights deal with the National Hockey League is a coup for Rogers, but a setback …
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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 …
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Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal:
Cox Explores Bidding for Time Warner Cable
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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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Ed Pilkington / Guardian:
Julian Assange lawyer calls on US to make formal decision on prosecution — The lawyer acting for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over the US criminal investigation into his publication of hundreds of thousands of state secrets has called on the Department of Justice to make a formal statement …
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Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Julian Assange unlikely to face U.S. charges over publishing classified documents
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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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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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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 — It took a while for anyone to notice, but once they did, the news spread like wildfire …
Hollywood Reporter:
Obama Calls Hollywood an ‘Engine’ of Economy at DreamWorks Animation — UPDATED: The president stressed “responsibility” in portraying gun violence in front of DWA CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, elected officials and executives from major studios and networks. — President Barack Obama praised …
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
OJR.org: Google's punishment and the perils of blackhat SEO — I hope you've been following the saga of OJR.org, the former home of the Online Journalism Review. In brief: When USC allowed the domain name to expire, an Australian company named Oneflare snagged the domain name and proceeded …
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