Mediagazer: N.Y.T. reporter: U.S. needs to pressure Europe on journalist ransoms (Jeremy Barr/Capital New York)

5:10 PM ET, September 10, 2014

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Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:

N.Y.T. reporter: U.S. needs to pressure Europe on journalist ransoms — New York Times foreign correspondent Rukmini Callimachi told a crowd last night that the U.S. should be pressuring European countries to stop paying ransom to terrorist kidnappers. — The U.S. generally refuses to pay ransoms …

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Reuters:

White House doesn't believe slain U.S. journalist was ‘sold’ to Islamic State — (Reuters) - The United States has no information indicating beheaded American journalist Steven Sotloff was “sold” to Islamic State militants by moderate Syrian opposition rebels, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Tuesday.

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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

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Aoife White / Bloomberg:

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Andy Greenberg / Wired:

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T.C. Sottek / The Verge:
Reddit uses “free speech” to defend the site's unsavory uses while ignoring the victims

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Dan Gillmor / Guardian:

The Internet Slowdown protest for net neutrality needs to target regulators — Websites are loading slowly today to show what a future without net neutrality looks like. But perhaps a targeted slowdown in in order — The point of the protest is to make you angry …

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Kevin Rawlinson / BBC:
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Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:

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Alex Weprin / Capital New York:

Networks face costly decision to let Obama break into primetime with ISIS remarks — When President Obama addresses address the nation tonight about the growing menace of Islamic State militants, he'll be cutting into a key moment in primetime broadcasts—good news for news divisions, less so for entertainment.

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Alan D. Mutter / Editor and Publisher:

The price of Sunday newspapers should be reduced to attract new and former customers — Newsosaur: Selling Papers to the ‘Sub-Geezer’ Set — Why do Sunday newspapers cost so much? — As I picked up the Sunday New York Times at a Starbucks in a leafy neighborhood in Chicago …

Joel Simon / Committee to Protect Journalists:

We must fight to preserve journalists' right to report in digital age — With journalists around the world being killed, kidnapped, and murdered in record numbers why is the Committee to Protect Journalists launching a campaign targeting U.S. government policies? — The answer is simple.

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