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Washington Post:
U.S. staged secret Syria operation in failed bid to rescue Foley, other journalists, hostages — U.S. staged secret operation into Syria in failed bid to rescue Americans — On Wednesday, President Obama spoke at a news conference in Martha's Vineyard about American journalist James Foley …
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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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Jack Shafer, Gigaom, Guardian, Digital Life, @dankennedy_nu, @hazelpress, @chionwurah, @mlbrook, @millie, PandoDaily, @losowsky, Mediaite, @postbaron, @moorehn, Gawker, WAVE-TV, Business Insider, @samirashackle, NationalJournal.com, TheBlaze.com and @jecon
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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@dangillmor, @vaultsan and @joshhalliday
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
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@dickc, VentureBeat, The Wrap, Mediaite, Wall Street Journal, @elisewho, @wexler, @mathewi, @pottsmark, @jeffjarvis, @jeffjarvis, @jeffjarvis, Techdirt, ThinkProgress, Runnin' Scared, @moorehn, @nervana_1, @vivian and Foreign Policy
RT:
Obama condemns killing of photojournalist James 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, RT and FishbowlNY
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Sydney Morning Herald:
News Corp threatens ‘action’ over leaked accounts — News Corp Australia has told rival media organisations it will take “appropriate action” against any person or publication publishing stories with the contents of a leaked internal document that showed The Australian haemorrhaged $27 million in financial year 2013.
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Amanda Meade / Guardian:
News Corp Australia leaked accounts show 1,000 jobs cut across mastheads
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Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Huffington Post teams up with Beacon Reader to fund a local journalist reporting in Ferguson for a year — The Huffington Post Is Not Leaving Ferguson — What happens in Ferguson and the St. Louis metro area the day after everybody leaves? — It's a question on the minds of nearly every resident …
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The Local News Lab, Guardian, @adviserdavid, @khillmatic, @attackerman, @jcstearns, @mathewi and Beacon
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Startup that places women in tech jobs plans journalism vertical — News organizations have one great advantage over tech companies, Katharine Zaleski says: They're used to people working remotely. “For years now, decades, newsrooms have been set up where someone can work remotely because of the bureau system,” she said.
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@kalanigordon, @powerstofly, @poynter, @weinbergrrrrr and @jen_mcfadden
Charlotte Higgins / Guardian:
BBC looks beyond the walled garden in a changing media world — In part eight of our nine-part series, Charlotte Higgins looks at how 20 years ago the BBC was a fortress in a broadcasting world it largely invented itself, and how viewing habits are changing and the technical innovator …
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@chiggi and @arusbridger
Chris Smith / Digiday:
Mobile traffic surpasses desktop for top UK publishers — The top newspaper and magazine publishers in the U.K. have now crossed the mobile-desktop audience threshold, with many reporting that over half their audience now views their content on mobile and tablet devices.
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@fieldproducer and Business Insider
Dennis Romero / LA Weekly:
Eyeing Latino market, BuzzFeed improves newsroom diversity by hiring Latino reporters — BuzzFeed Aims at Latino Audience With L.A. Hires — For decades, journalism groups have pressured news outlets to hire more minorities, particularly Latinos in Southern California.
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@realadrianc, @mccollumashley, @cnnvalencia, @niemanlab and FishbowlNY
Steve Cavendish / News, Nashville Scene:
The Tennessean's ‘newsroom of the future’ means cuts, turmoil and rock-bottom morale at present — Future Shock — Chas Sisk had had enough. — The Tennessean had just fired Sisk and the entire staff of the paper the day before and asked them to reapply for their jobs.
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