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Sarah Wheaton / New York Times:
Rep. Michael Grimm Threatens an NY1 Reporter — The Staten Island lawmaker can be heard telling Michael Scotto, a reporter for NY1, “I'll break you in half” in footage broadcast by the network.
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Poynter, NY1, Politico, Capital New York, @reformedbroker, @connellyal, @jenniferpreston, @thestustein, @jswatz, The Huffington Post, Politicker, @badler, @popehat, @tim_eastman, @dylanbyers, @ryanjreilly, @errollouis, The Daily Beast, Business Insider, @zogblog, Mediaite, @kagrox, @burgessev and Post Politics
Katerina Eva Matsa / Pew Research Center:
Local TV audiences bounce back — Bucking a long-range trend of declining viewership, the audience for local TV news grew in all three major time slots in 2013. Viewership climbed 6% in the morning (5 to 7 a.m.) and 3% in the early evening (5 to 7 p.m.) newscasts, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis.
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@danharland, @halliejackson, Erik Wemple, Advancing the Story, Poynter, The Huffington Post and TVSpy
Sarah El Deeb / Associated Press:
Egypts refers Al-Jazeera journalists to trial — CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's chief prosecutor on Wednesday referred 20 journalists from the Al-Jazeera TV network, including four foreigners, to trial on charges of allegedly joining or assisting a terrorist group and spreading false news that endangers national security.
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Journalists express solidarity in calling for release of Al-Jazeera five — Journalists in Britain today called on the Egyptian authorities to release five Al-Jazeera staff held in Cairo jails without charge. — Representatives from the BBC, Sky News and the Daily Telegraph joined …
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@hazemsika, @hackneylad, @sokkari, Al Jazeera English and The Huffington Post
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
News of the World hacker admits lying as part of ‘enormous conspiracy’ — Dan Evans tells court that 2009 witness statement was ‘drafted by News International lawyers’ and he was ‘toeing the line’ — Dan Evans, the former News of the World hacker, has admitted lying about trying …
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Jenny Gross / Wall Street Journal:
Witness Says Andy Coulson Heard Message Retrieved From Daniel Craig's Phone
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TIME
Tara Conlan / Guardian:
Former BBC technology chief to take legal action over DMI dismissal — Ex-employee accuses corporation of allowing ‘inaccurate statements’ to be made to MPs over failure of digital initiative — The BBC chief technology officer dismissed over the failure of the Digital Media Initiative …
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John Biggs / TechCrunch:
Lance Ulanoff Out As Editor Of Mashable — Lance Ulanoff, former editor-in-chief of PCMag.com, has been moved to an editor-at-large and chief correspondent position at Mashable, effectively removing him from the EIC position at that title. — A source close to the move said Jim Roberts …
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@jimhanas and Talking Biz News
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Angela Haggerty / The Drum:
Raft of new digital appointments at Trinity Mirror following Sunday People website axe and departure of Sue Douglas team — Trinity Mirror has announced a series of new digital appointments following the decision to scrap its recently-launched Sunday People website and the departure of its head of Sunday Brands, Sue Douglas.
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Trinity Mirror plc and thedrum.com
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Sue Douglas leaves Trinity Mirror as People.co.uk closes
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@marksweney, @flashboy and @buzzfeedben
Heather Timmons / Quartz:
An Indian newspaper just introduced a “smellable” ad with an evocative scent — Baby products maker Johnson & Johnson has taken a leap into the brave new world of “smellables” with a full-page advertisement in the world's largest-circulation English-language newspaper—on a page …
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@heathat
Mike Isaac / Re/code:
Medium, Evan Williams's Post-Twitter Media Startup, Raises $25 Million Round — Medium is about to become large. — The collaborative publishing startup has just closed a $25 million round of financing, the company confirmed, marking its first major funding raise since it launched a little more than a year ago.
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@al0nd0n, @thinkup, @brendanbaker, VatorNews, Medium, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Verge, @af, @_bsiddiqui, Mashable, @nbj914, @jason, @johnolilly, @goldman, @rsarver and @mg
Gillian Wong / Associated Press:
China visa woes for NYT as government ups pressure — You are here — Home » Xi Jinping » China visa woes for NYT as government ups pressure — BEIJING (AP) — The government is intensifying efforts to control foreign media coverage of China, blocking websites …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
ITV to launch pay-TV drama channel on Sky — Broadcaster continues its strategy of reducing its reliance on free-to-air advertising by announcing rollout of ITV Encore — ITV is to launch a pay-TV channel on Sky showcasing the “best of British drama”, its first major return to pay-TV since …
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Deadline.com, Reuters, The Independent, Digital Spy, @jaxconrad, Brand Republic and Pocket-lint
Adam L. Penenberg / PandoDaily:
No second chance for Stephen Glass: The long, strange downfall of a journalistic wunderkind — The California Supreme Court has denied disgraced former journalist Stephen Glass a license to practice law. — Pointing out in its ruling that “Glass's journalistic dishonesty was not a single lapse …
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@sabrinarerdely, @felixgilman, @jeffreytoobin, @sarahw and Ars Technica
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Is Shutting Down IntoNow, Nearly Three Years After Acquisition — IntoNow — the second-screen app that Yahoo bought in the spring of 2011, just 12 weeks after its launch — is being shut down by its parent company. As of last week, IntoNow was taken off the Apple App Store and Google Play …
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Variety
Ivan Moreno / Associated Press:
Colorado Lawmakers Reject Journalist Protection Proposal — DENVER (AP) — Lawmakers on Monday rejected a proposal to increase legal protections for reporters and their sources in Colorado, an idea that was prompted by the case of a New York reporter who was pressured to divulge sources in the 2012 suburban Denver theater shootings.
Quentin Hardy / NYT Bits:
Jason Calacanis Shoots for Human Moments in News Feeds — This must be the fastest-moving month in the history of new media. The latest entrant features yet one more familiar face. — On Tuesday, Jason Calacanis, who was involved in Web publishing early in its dot-com days, started Inside.com …
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@journalism2ls, @qhardy, Mashable, @gabrielsnyder, @moorehn and WebProNews
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