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Melissa Cronin / Gawker:
Woman calling for “Muscle” to block reporter from Mizzou demonstrations is Melissa Click, a Professor of Mass Media — Woman Calling for “Muscle” To Block Reporter From Mizzou Demonstrations Is a Professor of Mass Media — A professor of Mass Media at the University of Missouri …
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Daniel Victor / New York Times:
Activists at University of Missouri block freelance ESPN journalist from public space on campus, raising issues of respect vs. press freedom — As Missouri Activists Block Journalists, a Divide Over ‘Respect’ and Rights — A video that showed University of Missouri protesters restricting …
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Jonathan Peters / Columbia Journalism Review:
Why journalists have the right to cover the University of Missouri protests — Pay heed, all who interfere with Tim Tai's newsgathering: He will photo-splain the First Amendment to you. Tai is the student journalist seen in the viral video trying to take pictures of the #ConcernedStudent1950 assembly Monday …
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Jason Silverstein / New York Daily News:
Media professor Melissa Click harassed student journalist at Mizzou demonstration for several minutes after initial confrontation — New video shows University of Missouri media professor Melissa Click continuing to harass student journalist — It didn't end with the “muscle.”
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Storyful founder Mark Little joins Twitter as vice president of media for Europe and Africa — Twitter hires Storyful founder for senior international role — Mark Little, who set up News Corp owned social news agency, takes up role as vice president of media for Europe and Africa
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
How The Washington Post works with its foreign correspondents to report via social media — Last February, the Iraqi government lifted Baghdad's nighttime curfew, which was established by American forces when they invaded the country in 2003. After more than a decade, Baghdad's night life was coming back.
Craig Douglas / Boston Business Journal:
Boston Globe staff fear launch of STAT News is an attempt by owner John Henry to subvert union rules and regulations — John Henry's ‘ghost newsrooms’ send a shiver through the Boston Globe — Local billionaire John Henry introduced his new baby, a life sciences publication coined STAT News …
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Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
Beta version of Apple Music for Android now available — Apple Music Comes To Android As An Emissary — Today, Apple Music comes to Android phones. It's the first user-centric app that Apple has created for Android (but not its first). — As people download and dissect it …
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Dave McNary / Variety:
Discovery Communications and Liberty Global, both owned by John Malone, each take 3.4% stake in film studio Lionsgate for an undisclosed price — Lionsgate Sells Another Stake to John Malone — Lionsgate has reached a deal in principle for Discovery Communications and Liberty Global …
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Medium launches new series You Tell Me, soliciting responses to encourage conversations — Meet “dialogue,” the new front in the Internet commenting wars — Internet comments have a pretty terrible reputation these days, and every couple of weeks or so we see another news site drop them.
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Kim Zetter / Wired:
Leaked documents show the FBI never charged the hacker in the Matthew Keys case, despite knowing his identity for at least two years — Feds Never Charged the Real Hacker in the Matthew Keys Case — Former Reuters social media editor Matthew Keys is facing up to 25 years in prison …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
CNBC to cut London live TV news to four hours a day and close its Tokyo and Paris bureaus in effort to focus on digital expansion — CNBC to cut London live TV news to focus on digital expansion — American cable channel to reduce London broadcast to four hours a day and close Paris …
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