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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.” Update: Dowd says she didn't send an advance copy of the column.
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Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
Inside the Collapse of The New Republic — Last Friday morning, Chris Hughes, the owner of The New Republic, and Guy Vidra, the magazine's C.E.O., presided over a meeting at the publication's Penn Quarter offices in Washington, D.C. It had been a busy twenty-four hours: a day earlier …
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Kelly J O'Brien / Columbia Journalism Review:
FOIA reform dies while the press looked the other way — More than two years of work by open government advocates collapsed on Thursday night when House Speaker John Boehner closed the final legislative session of the 113th Congress without bringing the FOIA Improvement Act of 2014 to a vote.
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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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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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Pablo Gorondi / Associated Press:
Hungary's leader wants drug tests for journalists — 2 photos — BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The Hungarian prime minister, who has vowed to remake his country into a “non-liberal” state as he moves closer to Moscow, called Friday for mandatory drug testing of journalists and politicians.
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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!
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Forbes hires Fortune's Miguel Helft for its newly created San Francisco bureau chief position — Forbes hires Fortune senior writer, NYTimes small biz editor — Forbes announced four new appointments in its editorial department, including a new San Francisco bureau chief and a senior editor for its entrepreneurs coverage.
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 …
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