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John Cook / Gawker Politburo:
Gawker sues US State Department, seeking emails of senior Clinton adviser and spokesman Philippe Reines — Gawker v. Department of State — Today, Gawker Media filed a Freedom of Information Act complaint in U.S. District Court against the Department of State, seeking email correspondence …
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Associated Press:
New players replacing newspapers in seeking government info — WASHINGTON (AP) — Newspapers were once the dominant force in dislodging documents and other records from reluctant federal government agencies, but a new crop of media players, advocacy groups and corporate interests now drive the release of information.
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Associated Press and The Newspaper Guild
Gary Pruitt / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Laws created to give US citizens information about their government aren't working, and the system is getting worse — Public's access to government records faces roadblocks aplenty — NEW YORK — It's getting harder and more expensive to use public records to hold government officials accountable.
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Poynter, @rcallimachi, @ahcj_pia, @agyllenhaal, @freedomofpress, @hourphoto, @jackshafer, New York Times and Associated Press
Kelly Weill / Capital New York:
NYPD computer network used to edit Wikipedia articles about victims of police altercations, stop-and-frisk, and prominent political and police leaders — Edits to Wikipedia pages on Bell, Garner, Diallo traced to 1 Police Plaza — Computers operating on the New York Police Department's computer network …
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The New York Observer, Boing Boing, Capital New York, Engadget, Mediaite, UPROXX, CBS New York, The Week, Hit & Run, @themurdochtimes, The Root, @reynadesai, Talking Points Memo, Mother Jones, @mobute, Gawker, FishbowlNY, @newyorkist, New York Magazine, Gothamist, The Verge, The Independent, @adamgoldmanwp, @thereelanderson, Gizmodo and RT
Craig Silverman / Poynter:
Quartz story uses three shades of text to indicate fully-confirmed, reported, and unconfirmed information — Quartz experiment: Shades of gray distinguish facts from hearsay — As of Sunday night, there remained many unknown elements about the over-the-top subscription service that HBO will launch this year.
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@dlboardman, @brizzyc, @dangillmor and Talking Biz News
Lance Ulanoff / Mashable:
Twitter's TV Timelines experiment collects show conversations and features related photos, videos, and more — Twitter experiments with ‘TV Timelines’ — Twitter is launching a bold TV experiment and if it takes, it could change the face of second-screen viewing — at least as far as Twitter is concerned.
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The Next Web, TrustedReviews, The Drum, @mikeisaac and Engadget
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Newsonomics: Single-copy newspaper sales are collapsing, and it's largely a self-inflicted wound — Have you bought a lonely single copy of a newspaper lately, from a newsstand or a newspaper box? Probably not. Neither are many other people. — Single-copy newspaper sales …
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Top Digital Journal News, @jbenton and The Newspaper Guild
Mat Honan / BuzzFeed:
Sources: Legal wrangling between Whisper and the Guardian is over, but some accusations about location data remain — The Whisper Campaign That Torched A Guardian Story — The Guardian went too far in its claims of what Whisper could do and was doing. But so too, it seems, did Whisper.
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TechCrunch, Ars Technica, PCMag UK social-networking, ReadWrite, Poynter, SlashGear, New York Magazine, Gizmodo, Gizmodo Australia, Columbia Journalism Review, CNNMoney, Adweek, @lainnafader, @robinjp, @elongreen and Silicon Republic, Thanks:@mat
BBC:
Reporters Without Borders has set up mirrors for nine banned news websites, allowing them to be seen in 11 countries — Access to blocked sites restored by Reporters Without Borders — Websites banned in China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and other countries, are being made available to their citizens.
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thetibetpost.com, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, VICE News, BetaNews and Minneapolis Star Tribune
Amy Schatz / Re/code:
FCC Stops Clock on Review of Comcast, AT&T Deals Again — The Federal Communications Commission stopped the clock in its review of Comcast's* deal to acquire Time Warner Cable and AT&T's deal to acquire DirecTV for the third time Friday afternoon, citing an ongoing court dispute over some programming contracts.
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Multichannel News, Bloomberg Business and Reuters
Todd Spangler / Variety:
TiVo Completes Acquisition of Aereo Trademarks, Customer Lists for $1 Million — TiVo's purchase of certain assets from Aereo — the Internet TV streaming startup that was forced to shut down last year after losing a copyright-infringement case brought by broadcasters …
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Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, PCMag UK, 24/7 Wall St. and TechCrunch
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Trinity Mirror may face corporate charges over alleged phone hacking — Newspaper group is ‘co-operating suspect’ in investigation into voicemail interception at Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and the People — Trinity Mirror is facing a possible corporate prosecution over allegations …
Saba Hamedy / Los Angeles Times:
BuzzFeed Motion Pictures videos reach 1 billion monthly views — Buzzfeed Motion Pictures, a division of the Buzzfeed media company, announced in an internal memo Thursday that its videos have accumulated 1 billion monthly views. — The news comes just six months after the Motion Pictures division …
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