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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.
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Jade Walker / The Huffington Post:
FBI Admits Agent Impersonated Reporter During Criminal Investigation
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Newsweek:
An Interview With the Anonymous Media Watchdogs Who Accused Fareed Zakaria of Plagiarism — On August 19, two bloggers calling themselves CrushingBort and BlippoBlappo published a blog post titled “Did CNN, The Washington Post, and Time Actually Check Fareed Zakaria's Work for Plagiarism?” on their media watchdog blog, Our Bad Media.
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@jeremyduns, @deep_beige, @sdkstl, @ryanlcooper, @dogstoevsky, @abeaujon and @felixsalmon
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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@leftunityuk, @chaabanrabih, @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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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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Gawker, @tombevanrcp, @genlakhyenrab and @joepompeo
Dan Colarusso / Reuters:
Reuters ends reader comments on news stories, citing migration of discussions to social media; ability to comment remains on columns, blogs — Editor's note: Reader comments in the age of social media — By Reuters — During the past few years, much has changed about how readers interact with news.
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@mathewi, @jaredbkeller, PandoDaily, @sdkstl, SocialTimes, @nickkristof, @janus303, Poynter, @mktwgoldstein, @bobbymacreports, @nikkiusher, @jaredbkeller, @kevglobal and The Next Web
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Does BuzzFeed engage in clickbait? That depends on your definition — BuzzFeed strenuously denies that it engages in what some call “clickbait,” which the site defines as not following through on the promise of a headline — but that's not the only definition for clickbait, and probably not even the most common one
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@gaberivera, @dleonhardt, @jayrosen_nyu and @jayrosen_nyu
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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
BuzzFeed doesn't do clickbait, defined as under-delivering what's over-promised in a headline
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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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Vanity Fair, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Melville House Books, @irisblasi, @groveatlantic and @nilanjanaroy
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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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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BetaBoston, The Verge, ReadWrite, Washington Post, PC Magazine, New York Magazine, General News, TIME, @krcg13 and Engadget
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
This is Vudu Spark, Walmart's very own Chromecast competitor — Walmart is getting ready to sell its very own streaming stick, but the device is very much a one-trick pony. — Add Walmart to the list of companies that's trying to sell you a Chromecast-like HDMI streaming stick …
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Multichannel News, TechRadar.com, TechSpot, The Verge, Electronista and Engadget
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, @jayrosen_nyu, @ceodonovan and @niemanlab
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Mazher Mahmood injunction bid fails but BBC warned by Attorney General not to broadcast Panorama expose of reporter — Suspended Sun reporter Mazher Mahmood has failed in a bid to stop the BBC from publishing his image. — But the Attorney General has issued a warning to the corporation …
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Guardian, @bengoldacre and @jamesrbuk
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