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Pete Williams / NBC News:
Source: Justice Department won't force NYT reporter James Risen to reveal a source in CIA book — Holder: Reporter Won't Be Forced to Reveal Leak Source — The reporter, James Risen, has been battling for years to stop prosecutors from forcing him to name his source for a book that revealed …
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Russell Brandom / The Verge:
Stolen Sony emails reveal scheming by MPAA, movie studios against Google in “Project Goliath” and their fight against piracy at the expense of the open web — Project Goliath: Inside Hollywood's secret war against Google — What is “Goliath” and why are Hollywood's most powerful lawyers working to kill it?
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Andy / TorrentFreak:
After SOPA backlash, MPAA and movie studios search for legal ways to block sites infringing IP — MPAA Prepares to Bring Pirate Site Blocking to the U.S. — Site blocking has become one of the go-to anti-piracy techniques for the music and movie industries.
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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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Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Circa is seeking $8M in Series A funding as it faces well-funded competition from AJ+, others — The newsonomics of Circa's uncertain future (and new competition from AJ+) — What's in the cards for Circa, an award-nabbing industry darling, a pioneer of mobile-first news apps and a visual style that still spreads on the web?
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Dowd denies showing column to Sony exec's husband; emails don't show an ethics violation — Hacked Emails, ‘Air-Kissing’ — and Two Firm Denials — A BuzzFeed story, published Thursday, based on leaked Sony Pictures emails, reports that the Pulitzer-winning Times columnist Maureen Dowd promised …
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Matthew Zeitlin / BuzzFeed:
Leaked Emails Suggest Maureen Dowd Promised To Show Sony Exec's Husband Column Before Publication — The end result: kudos at the studio and an email from 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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David Auerbach / Slate:
Wikipedia editing disputes: The crowdsourced encyclopedia has become a rancorous, sexist mess. — Wikipedia is a paradox and a miracle—a crowdsourced encyclopedia that has become the default destination for nonessential information. That it has survived almost 15 years and remained …
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Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
A year and a half ago, four major publishers created Sunday newspaper supplements; in January, only Athlon will remain — Consolidation Coming in Sunday Magazines — A MASS-MARKET media category that Madison Avenue has perceived as unchanging for what seems like a month of Sundays is suddenly undergoing a significant makeover.
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Emily Yoshida / The Verge:
Why we're reporting on Sony's leaked info — Today on The Verge we published a story about a major operation by the MPAA to broadly and significantly impact the distribution of information, which would impact how free speech works on the internet. We obtained this information …
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The Next Web, @julie_bush, @jayrosen_nyu and @samitsarkar
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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FRONTLINE, Associated Press, Techdirt, The Hill, @alisonannyoung, @muckrock, @foiafactor, digiphile, @_rshapiro, @reedfrich, @dangillmor, @davidfolkenflik, @digiphile and @digiphile
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
FCC OKs Scripps and Journal Communications merger, combining TV stations, spinning off newspapers — FCC Okays Scripps/Journal Merger — Contingent on divestiture of two stations and FCC's extension of failing-station waiver in Green Bay — The FCC's Media Bureau has approved …
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