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12:00 PM ET, August 20, 2014

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Caroline Moss / Business Insider:
Twitter Won't Suspend NY Post And Daily News For Posting Grisly James Foley Covers  —  When the news of James Foley's beheading by jihadist group ISIS started to make headlines yesterday, there seemed to be a common plea: Don't tweet graphic images from the video showing the American photojournalist's gruesome death.
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A message from Jim's mom, Diane Foley  —  We have never been prouder of our son Jim.  He gave his life trying to expose the world to the suffering of the Syrian people.  We implore the kidnappers to spare the lives of the remaining hostages.  Like Jim, they are innocents.
Hadas Gold / Politico:
AP CEO: Foley murder a war crime  —  Gary Pruitt, the president and CEO of The Associated Press, said Wednesday that ISIL's murder of photojournalist James Foley is an “international crime of war.”  —  “The Associated Press is outraged by the killing of James Foley and condemns the taking of any journalist's life.
Siraj Datoo / BuzzFeed:
Twitter To Suspend Accounts Of Anyone Tweeting Graphic Images Of Photojournalist's Alleged Execution  —  A video emerged last night appearing to show photojournalist James Foley being beheaded by a member of ISIS.  —  Twitter CEO Dick Costolo announced in a tweet on Wednesday morning …
Michael B Kelley / Business Insider:
Questions mount over how Jim Foley, believed to be held by Assad, was captured by ISI  —  One Big Question Surrounds The Murder Of US Journalist James Foley By ISIS  —  As the U.S. processes the beheading of an American journalist by extremist militants, one key question remains …
Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:
Islamic State militants claim to have killed US journalist James Foley
Shane Harris / Foreign Policy:
Social Media Companies Scramble to Block Terrorist Video of Journalist's Murder
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Fareed Zakaria responds to plagiarism charges  —  On Tuesday, two anonymous Twitter users — @blippoblappo & @crushingbort — published a report citing 12 instances in which the journalist Fareed Zakaria appeared to have lifted passages wholesale from other authors.
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
After new plagiarism allegations, Time magazine will review Zakaria's work again
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Our Bad Media:
Team who discovered BuzzFeed editor's plagiarism reveal Fareed Zakaria as serial plagiarist
Dean Starkman / Columbia Journalism Review:
Al Jazeera America's problem: it's a cable operation built for a pre-digital age  —  Al Jazeera America struggles to get off the margins  —  A quality-first strategy faces huge hurdles  —  When Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based cable news giant rolled out its massive new American affiliate one year ago …
Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu
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Ted Johnson / Variety:
Al Jazeera Says Al Gore's Claims of Fraud Are ‘Blatantly False’
Discussion: TVNewser, Capital New York and Reuters
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Condé Nast to Sell Fairchild Fashion Media for $100 Million  —  Condé Nast announced on Tuesday the sale of Fairchild Fashion Media, a group of trade publications including Women's Wear Daily and Footwear News, to Penske Media.  The sale price was about $100 million, according to a person briefed on the deal.
Amanda Meade / Guardian:
News Corp Australia leaked accounts show 1,000 jobs cut across mastheads  —  Major leak of confidential operating accounts reveal extent of losses with the Australian losing about $30m a year  —  The financial health of News Corp Australia's newspapers has been laid bare by a leak …
Katie Zavadski / New York Magazine:
New York Times Reporter Ordered to Leave Afghanistan Over Election Story  —  New York Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg is in big trouble: A story he wrote covers some not-so-flattering aspects of recent Afghan elections.  Yesterday, news broke that he was being barred from leaving the country …
John Herrman / The Awl:
NowThis bypasses websites, uses others' apps to publish news, including headlines in Snapchat  —  The Weird Near Future of News  —  NowThisNews was started a couple years ago as a “brand new video network built from scratch for people who get their news on mobile devices and through social streams.”
Dan Frommer / Quartz:
Twitter now officially says your timeline is more than just tweets from people you follow  —  Many Twitter users have noticed that Twitter is now inserting tweets into their timelines that seemingly don't belong.  This is not an accident.  Twitter has updated its help document, “What's a Twitter timeline?”
 
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