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Chris Grygiel / Associated Press:
FBI says agent impersonated AP reporter — 1 photo — SEATTLE (AP) — FBI Director James Comey says an agent impersonated an Associated Press reporter during a 2007 criminal investigation, a ruse the news organization says could undermine its credibility.
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
BuzzFeed doesn't do clickbait, defined as under-delivering what's over-promised in a headline — Why BuzzFeed Doesn't Do Clickbait — You won't believe this one weird trick. — Jon Stewart was asked about BuzzFeed and Vice the other day, and had this to say:
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Caroline Davies / Guardian:
Missing: 3 million News International emails — All emails covering her period as editor removed after Rebekah Brooks changed company's email deletion policy in 2010 — Three million emails at News International are missing after Rebekah Brooks changed the company's email deletion policy, a jury heard.
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@chaabanrabih, @leftunityuk, @hackedoffhugh, @paullewismoney and The Independent
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Ewan Palmer / International Business Times:
Phone Hacking: Former News Of The World Editor Ian Edmondson Jailed for Eight Months
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Marc Graser / Variety:
Disney Downplays a la Carte Plans as ESPN Preps OTT Services — Disney chief Bob Iger likes experimenting with digital platforms. Yet while ESPN — one of Disney's biggest moneymakers — is getting ready to launch over-the-top services to stream more sports programming …
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Karma Allen / CNBC:
Walt Disney earnings: 89 cents per share on revenue of $12.39B, both in-line with estimates
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Nina Shapiro / Seattle Weekly:
The Perks, Pitfalls, and Paradoxes of Amazon Publishing — Amid a boycott and bicoastal culture clash, Amazon has created a new model of publishing. Where does that leave authors? — One day in 2012, Megan Chance, a historical-fiction writer from the Kitsap Peninsula …
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@irisblasi, @groveatlantic, @nilanjanaroy and Melville House Books
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Lab:
Can Berkeleyside turn an engaged community into a profitable membership program? — If you were a resident of Berkeley, California with free time on your hands and a sense of curiosity, you might have found yourself a couple of weekends ago at Uncharted, an “ideas festival” put on by local news site Berkeleyside.
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@jan10vdh, @ceodonovan, @jayrosen_nyu and @niemanlab
Brian R. Fitzgerald / Wall Street Journal:
Twitter collaborating with advocacy group Women, Action & the Media to help report abuse and harassment — New Online Tool Lets Twitter Users Report Harassment — Twitter is collaborating with a women's advocacy group that will review and escalate reports of harassment on the social media service.
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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
In Q3 pay-TV lost 179K customers, compared to 83K last year, as cable and satellite companies see move to digital — Pay-TV ‘Cord Cutting’ Accelerates — Subscriber Defections Begin to Hit Satellite TV; Price of Bills Cited — The pay-TV industry contracted in the third quarter …
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MediaPost, Hollywood Reporter, Media Life Magazine and Multichannel News
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
HuffPost defends disciplinary actions against reporters, editors — The Huffington Post's newsroom is on edge following recent incidents in which several employees were disciplined and a major story was put on pause. — Two of the incidents involved journalists who were suspended after publishing sensitive articles.
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@joepompeo and @genlakhyenrab
Lene Bech Sillesen / Columbia Journalism Review:
Justin Hall's 20-year-old website shows how opportunities in online journalism slowly developed — Justin Hall's 20-year-old website shows how opportunities in online journalism slowly developed — Justin Hall runs a blog that has landed him several jobs in journalism.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
White House background briefings: Good journalism or anonymous government spin? — Every so often, a group of handpicked journalists gets the equivalent of a tap on the shoulder from a White House functionary. They're invited to a background briefing, one of Washington's most common …
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