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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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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 …


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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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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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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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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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!


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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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 …


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.


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


Laid-off Metro Pulse editors plan a new publication in Knoxville — After rejecting severance to start a competitor, journalist seek funding for Knoxville Mercury — Three former editors for Metro Pulse, the Knoxville, TN, alt-weekly recently shuttered by E.W. Scripps …
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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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