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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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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 …
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
UK warns that viewing, downloading or sharing Foley video may be a crime under terrorism legislation — Police warn sharing James Foley killing video is a crime — Met says passing on clip of Isis militant murdering US journalist on social media could lead to proseution under anti-terror laws
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@joshhalliday, @vaultsan and @dangillmor
Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
White House Knew of Recent ISIS Threat to Kill US Journalist — ISIS had recently threatened to kill U.S. journalist James Foley to avenge airstrikes the United States has conducted in Iraq, a senior U.S. official told ABC News. — The White House had been aware of the threat prior …
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James Ball / Guardian:
James Foley and the daily horrors of the internet: think hard before clicking — Outcry over footage of Foley's apparent beheading raises difficult questions about editorial ethics - and our own choices — With depressing frequency in this summer of diverse horrors, we hear tales …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
AP CEO: Foley murder a war crime
AP CEO: Foley murder a war crime
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Michael B Kelley / Business Insider:
Questions mount over how Jim Foley, believed to be held by Assad, was captured by ISIS
Questions mount over how Jim Foley, believed to be held by Assad, was captured by ISIS
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A message from Jim's mom, Diane Foley
A message from Jim's mom, Diane Foley
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
NYT will comply with Afghanistan's order for correspondent Matthew Rosenberg to leave country — NYT's Rosenberg expelled from Afghanistan — The New York Times will comply with an order from the Afghan attorney general's office ordering correspondent Matthew Rosenberg to leave the country …
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New York Times, FishbowlNY and RT
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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 …
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 …
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Ted Johnson / Variety:
Al Jazeera Says Al Gore's Claims of Fraud Are ‘Blatantly False’
Al Jazeera Says Al Gore's Claims of Fraud Are ‘Blatantly False’
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Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:
Barnes & Noble and Samsung officially launch the $179 ‘Galaxy Tab 4 Nook’ — Barnes & Noble and Samsung today unveiled a new Nook-branded tablet at a press event in New York. The $179, 7-inch “Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook” is available today. — Speaking on stage at the event …
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Medium plans to launch its digital magazine for music next month, edited by Jonathan Shecter, co-founder of The Source — Next Up on Medium's List: A Music Magazine — Medium, the startup led by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, is preparing its next foray into Web publishing: A digital magazine dedicated to stories about music.
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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 …
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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.”
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Tamara Baluja / J-Source:
Newspapers Canada reveals proposal for a national press council — Newspapers Canada is soliciting feedback from its members on a proposal for a national press council to be launched in 2015. — The proposed council would hear unresolved complaints about the adherence to standards …
Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Police officer who pointed gun, threatened protesters on video is relieved of duty in Ferguson — Police officer suspended for pointing rifle at protesters, threatening them — A police officer who pointed an assault rifle at people in Ferguson on Tuesday night and threatened to kill …
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