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Matthew Zeitlin / BuzzFeed:
Leaked Emails Reveal Maureen Dowd Promised To Show Sony Exec's Husband Column Before Publication — The end result: kudos at the studio and an email to Dowd after it published saying, “you're amazing.” — New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd speaks during a taping of Meet the Press at the NBC studios.
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Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
Michel du Cille, Post photojournalist who won Pulitzer three times, dies at 58 … Michel du Cille, a Washington Post photojournalist who was a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his dramatic images of human struggle and triumph, and who recently chronicled the plight of Ebola patients …
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Matthew Bennett / The Spain Report:
Spanish Newspaper Publishers' Association Now Asks Government To Help Stop Google News Closure — NEWS: AEDE announces it wants the Spanish government and EU competition authorities to stop Google closing Google News: “to protect the rights of citizens and businesses”.
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Google News is right to shut down in Spain in order to fight against the link tax and for the freedom of the web
Google News is right to shut down in Spain in order to fight against the link tax and for the freedom of the web
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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Why Publishing Stolen Sony Data is Problematic but Necessary — The more Sony Pictures data keeps leaking, the more my moral compass spins like a weather vane in a hurricane. — What just a week ago seemed such a clear-cut case of doing what my instincts have told me do to every other moment …
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Twitter users are more likely to watch TV, and to pay for it, new Ipsos study shows — Twitter Users Love TV So Much They'll Pay to Watch — The TV Industrial Complex is having a ratings problem, an advertising problem and a subscriber problem. — But if everyone used Twitter, those problems would go away!
PandoDaily:
Twitter suspends journalist's account after he publishes public document — A troubling story out of Berkeley tonight. Local journalist Darwin BondGraham has had his Twitter account suspended after tweeting a document obtained under California's Public Records Act.
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Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
Department of Justice may force 60 Minutes producer Richard Bonin to testify in terrorism case — Holder Faces Another Decision on Forcing a Reporter to Testify — With Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. facing a deadline over whether to force a reporter for The New York Times to reveal his sources …
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
Japan's new state secrets law sparks concerns about governmental control over the press — Suffering a media free-for-all, Japanese press now has the government weighing in — In Japan this year, the reporters have become the reported. — It's seems there's been one journalism furor …
Telegraph:
Former News of the World features editor Jules Stenson pleads guilty to conspiracy to intercept voicemails — Jules Stenson admits phone hacking at News of the World — Ex-News of the World features editor pleads guilty at Old Bailey to intercepting voicemails over four years at newspaper
Soham Adwani / Tech in Asia:
Australian startup Inkl bundles paywalled stories from 7 news publishers for A$15/month, available outside US — Spotify for journalism? This app wants to tackle the fragmented news market — The way we consume news in today's generation has changed in a way we couldn't possibly imagine.
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Agence France-Presse:
Jakarta Post editor faces up to 5 years in blasphemy case over publication of ISIS cartoon — Indonesian editor accused of blasphemy over ISIS cartoon — The chief editor of a leading English-language newspaper in Muslim-majority Indonesia has been named a suspect in a blasphemy case …
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