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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Phone hacking: ex-News of the World lawyer will not face prosecution — Evidence emerged at Rebekah Brooks trial that Tom Crone's office safe contained transcripts of David Blunkett's voicemails — The former legal manager at the News of the World, whose office safe contained transcripts …
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@ryanchittum and Press Gazette
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Phone hacking: News of the Worlds Ian Edmondson pleads guilty — Ex-news editor was one of original eight defendants, alongside Rebekah Brooks, but was later deemed unfit to continue — A former News of the World news executive has admitted he was involved in phone hacking …
NBC News:
US freelance cameraman working for NBC in Liberia diagnosed with Ebola, will be flown to US — NBC News Freelancer in Africa Diagnosed with Ebola — An American freelance cameraman working for NBC News in Liberia has tested positive for Ebola and will be flown back to the United States for treatment.
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John Plunkett / Guardian:
Panorama to scale back investigative journalism in shake up — BBC's flagship current affairs show has suffered falling ratings and will now feature more news analysis programmes — The BBC's Panorama is to scale back its investigative journalism and feature more analysis and familiar faces …
Discussion:
@tomjharper and @dansabbagh
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
The Washington Post takes its ‘native’ ads to print — When is a print advertorial a native ad? The Washington Post published an ad for Shell in Thursday's print edition that it's touting as its first native ad in print. Shell used the ad, which ran on A13, to tell readers about the work it's doing to improve energy efficiency.
Discussion:
@digiday and @niemanlab
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Times eliminates some two dozen jobs on business side — While New York Times journalists brace for a round of voluntary buyouts that aims to shave dozens of salaries from their newsroom, the business side is bidding farewell to employees who have been informed that their positions are being eliminated.
Discussion:
FishbowlNY
Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
Industry Scuttlebutt: Bill Simmons Wants Out Of ESPN, And The Offers Are Already Coming In — A couple of weeks ago, star ESPN columnist/talking head/"shadow president"/podcaster Bill Simmons called the commissioner of the NFL a liar and challenged his ESPN bosses to punish him for it. — They did.
Discussion:
The Big Lead, @markberman, @andyglockner, @mobute, @jim_reedy, @stevekovach and @jlgolson
Sandra Laville / Guardian:
Paul Cantlie asks captors to allow photojournalist son to return home safely in message recorded from hospital bed — Paul Cantlie asks captors to allow photojournalist son to return home safely in message recorded from hospital bed — The elderly father of the British journalist John Cantlie …
Discussion:
BBC and Associated Press
Monica Anderson / Pew Research Center:
Turks don't like their national press much, but rely on it heavily for news — This week, representatives for the Committee to Protect Journalists and the International Press Institute are meeting with government officials in Turkey to discuss what the organizations say are increasing restrictions …
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Committee to Protect …
James Dutton / TheMediaBriefing:
News Corp's Rahul Chopra: 'Videos and images don't just improve the story, they are the story' — “In the sharing age videos and images don't just improve the story, they are the story”, Storyful and News Corp's Rahul Chopra told Monetising Media yesterday.
Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:
Judge orders Guantánamo Bay force-feeding videos to be released — Judge orders US government to prepare public versions of 28 videos showing force-feeding of hunger-striking Syrian detainee — A federal judge has ordered the disclosure of videotapes that show the force-feeding of an inmate at Guantánamo Bay.
Discussion:
Gawker, Los Angeles Times and Associated Press
David Carr / New York Times:
‘Kill the Messenger’ Recalls a Reporter Wrongly Disgraced — If someone told you today that there was strong evidence that the Central Intelligence Agency once turned a blind eye to accusations of drug dealing by operatives it worked with, it might ring some distant, skeptical bell. Did that really happen?
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@palafo, @psullivan1, @tanehisicoates, @abtran and @ethanbrown72
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