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British court quashes legal challenge by partner of Snowden leaks reporter — (Reuters) - Britain's High Court has quashed a legal challenge against the detention under anti-terrorism laws of the partner of Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who brought leaks from former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden to world attention.
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BBC, The Verge and Associated Press
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High court rules against David Miranda over Heathrow detention - live coverage — Judges dismiss claim that nine-hour detention of partner of former Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald was unlawful — Sort by: — 10.09am GMT — Lobby group Index on Censorship expressed disappointment …
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The Intercept, The Huffington Post and Guardian


Whisper publicizes and claims it vetted a new Gwyneth Paltrow affair rumor shared by a user — Whisper, The Sequoia-Backed Secret Sharing App, Makes A Move Into TMZ Territory — Whisper, the popular anonymous social sharing startup that's raised $24 million from venture capital giants …
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@neetzan, Defamer, @whisperapp, @ryanlawler, @neetzan, @neetzan, @fmanjoo, Brian Solis, Business Insider, Betabeat, The Huffington Post and BuzzFeed
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Graydon Carter explains why Vanity Fair didn't run with Gwyneth Paltrow piece — The Paltrow Affair — Not to bore you with the details, but the whole Vanity Fair-Gwyneth Paltrow brouhaha began innocently enough at a routine morning editorial meeting last spring.
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The New York Observer, Digital Spy, WebProNews, @jayrosen_nyu, Guardian and @vfhollywood


Some people want a lot more Winter Olympics; some people want no Winter Olympics at all — The folks at NBC's Breaking News have a post up looking at how their users responded to the arrival of a huge story — the Sochi Winter Olympics. (Breaking News is ahead of the pack at encouraging readers …
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Latest News & Headlines, Forbes and The Whip
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AP brings Olympics coverage to local news outlets with customizable, white-label microsites — If you've seen an Winter Olympics medal count on your local newspapers' homepage, there's a good chance it was built by the Associated Press Digital News Experience program team.
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@ap_corpcomm


Peter Greste and fellow journalists to finally appear in Egyptian court — The three al-Jazeera staffers, who have been held for 46 days, are locked in a cell next to the country's former prime minister — Three al-Jazeera English journalists seized last December from their Cairo hotel rooms …
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BostonGlobe.com is moving to a metered paywall … That's one of the takeaways from this long profile of the John Henry-era Globe by Jason Schwartz in Boston Magazine. The Globe famously split its web presence in 2011 into a completely free Boston.com and a mostly hard-paywalled BostonGlobe.com.
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@jbenton, @justinnxt and @niemanlab
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Will John Henry Save the Globe?
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@benvolin, @pppayack, @dskok, @dankennedy_nu, @georgeprof, @michaelpaulson, @mathewi, @martinepowers, @simon_hughes__, @jasonschwartz, @bostonmagazine, @twallack and @jayrosen_nyu


BBC Radio 1 top 40 goes with the flow by including streaming plays — Station to follow shift in way young people consume music by integrating data from Spotify and other services into singles chart — The BBC Radio 1 top 40 UK singles chart is to undergo the biggest upheaval in its 62-year history …
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Pocket-lint and thedrum.com


NBC Universal, FX Chiefs Call for Increased Anti-Piracy Measures — John Landgraf: Voluntary self-policing better route than legal battles — Internet gatekeepers like Google may have made strides to combat content piracy, but there's room for improvement.


After the demise of its network, The Colorado Independent is born again on its own — Susan Greene got the call about six weeks after she became editor of The Colorado Independent in early 2013: The American Independent News Network, which funded the nonprofit online news organization, was closing the site.
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Durango Herald


U.S. News deletes archived web content published before 2007 — A Romenesko reader recently noticed that U.S. News wiped out a good chunk of its archives. He writes: “The way that I stumbled upon this is that I am constantly going back into archives of various publications while doing research.
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@dancow, @mtdukes, @beschizza, @clare_oc, @notjessewalker and @felixsalmon