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Sebnem Arsu / New York Times:
Turkey threatens to block social networks nationwide unless Twitter blocks the account of a newspaper that circulated leaked documents — Turkey Threatens to Block Social Media Over Released Documents — ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish officials threatened to shut down Twitter in the country unless …
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Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Twitter fights Turkish order to block newspaper's Twitter account — Twitter has received a court order from the Turkish government asking the service to block or remove the account belonging to one of the country's newspapers, known as Halkin Gazetesi — which means The People's Newspaper …
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Bryan Alexander / USA Today:
Oscar voters pick all-white field for lead and supporting actor and actress, spurring backlash — White, male field spurs Oscars diversity backlash — One year ago, 12 Years A Slave triumphed as Oscars' best picture — the first time the top prize went to a film directed by a black filmmaker, Steve McQueen.
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Brian Clark Howard / National Geographic:
Seven-Year Walk Highlights Power of ‘Slow Journalism’ — WASHINGTON—As he advances on a seven-year walk around the planet, journalist Paul Salopek is merging the oldest form of transportation with the newest digital technology, from Twitter to video chatting to blogging, to share the stories he's finding with the world.
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Kelsey McKinney / Vox:
US House Speaker John Boehner's office uses Taylor Swift gifs to attack Obama's community college proposal — Taylor Swift continues world domination, takes over Speaker John Boehner's website — House Speaker John Boehner posted a listicle on his website this morning full of Taylor Swift gifs.
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Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
Disney's Iger Gets 35% Pay Raise to $46.5 Million — Walt Disney Co. (DIS)'s board handed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger a 35 percent pay increase for delivering a record profit and stock price last year. — Iger, who runs the world's largest entertainment company, was already one of America's highest-paid executives.
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Roberto Saviano / Guardian:
Italian journalist Roberto Saviano has lived with armed guards for eight years since exposing the Naples mafia in a book — My life under armed guard — For eight years, the journalist Roberto Saviano has faced constant threat of death for exposing the secrets of the Naples mafia in his book Gomorrah.
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@jonjonfaull, @icssmol and @bdeskin
Simon Houpt / Globe and Mail:
Media critic Jesse Brown of the podcast Canadaland occasionally demonstrates some of his own shoddy reporting — Journalist Jesse Brown is quick to expose the failures of Canadian media. But what about his own? — Is the media industry in Canada too cozy for its own good?
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@jessebrown, @misterjohndoyle, @kaleighrogers, @srlie, @simonhoupt, @alexboutilier and @juddrnaut
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Sirius XM is dealt new setback in Turtles copyright lawsuit — (Reuters) - A New York federal judge on Thursday largely rejected Sirius XM Holdings Inc's request to reconsider her Nov. 14 decision in favor of members of the 1960s band The Turtles over the payment of royalties for songs made before 1972.
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@plagiarismtoday, Law360, AllAccess.com, Plagiarism Today and RAIN News
Sam Thielman / Adweek:
NBCUniversal Is Using Big Data to Launch Its Audience Targeting Platform — Will supplement, not replace, Nielsen metric — That was, in corporate terms, fast. — NBCUniversal is leveraging massive amounts of set-top box data collected by its parent company, Comcast …
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AdAge, MediaPost, MediaPost, Multichannel News, Variety, Wall Street Journal and AdExchanger
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Anonymous information from a terrorist source must clear the highest bar, but ignoring it would fail the readers — Was Times ‘Disgusting’ to Grant Anonymity to Al Qaeda Source? — Everybody's the public editor these days - even the director of the F.B.I.
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Jason Deans / Guardian:
Editors urge David Cameron to tighten police snooping rules — Prime minister asked to intervene to help protect journalists' phones and communications records — More than 100 senior editors representing every UK national newspaper, the regional press and broadcasters have signed …
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