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U.K. photographer explains how she captured dramatic photo during riots — All the major newspapers in the U.K. published a dramatic photo of a woman jumping from a burning building during the riots that have terrorized the country, captured by Amy Weston of the photo agency WENN.
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Yahoo! News, Guardian, Disruptors, Mashable!, Future of Journalism, Guardian, Boston Globe, Barbara Krasnoff's blog, The Daily What, Adweek, Telegraph and Guardian, more at Techmeme »
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London riots: Sky, ITN and CNN reporters attacked — Broadcasters' vans smashed in Croydon and Sky News reporter Mark Stone forced to flee in Clapham disturbance — Journalists and photographers came under attack on Monday as London faced its third consecutive day of violent riots in the capital.
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The Huffington Post, BBC, BBC, Journalism.co.uk, The Wire, Future of Journalism, Fast Company, The Lede, PC World, Press Gazette, Forbes, Digital Trends, NBC Bay Area, WebProNews, Guardian and Jon Slattery
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The Trouble With Back-Ends — No publication has a better story about back-end chaos than BusinessWeek. — Before it was acquired by Bloomberg LP, the publication sank a shocking $20 million into the back-end development of Business Exchange, a professional social networking site …
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@fromedome, @mikeydigital, @andymboyle, @osder, @jonathanstray, @fromedome and @codybrown
Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
News Corp.'s Independent Directors Have Strong Ties to Murdoch — When the News Corporation board convenes on the 20th Century Fox Studios lot Tuesday for its first meeting since a phone hacking scandal overseas plunged the company into turmoil, the participants will include many people with deep and personal ties to Rupert Murdoch.
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Poynter
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Murdoch to face Wall Street on News Corp earnings call
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The Huffington Post, Company Town, Runnin' Scared and Free Press
Ian Burrell / The Independent:
‘NOTW’ staff offered lucrative severance pay
‘NOTW’ staff offered lucrative severance pay
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Press Gazette and Adweek
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Newspaper giant Tribune Co. developing tablet device — (CNN) — Hoping to take a small slice from Apple's big pie, newspaper publishers are developing tablet computers of their own. — The Tribune Co., one of the largest U.S. news enterprises, is working on a touchscreen tablet that it plans …
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paidContent, Poynter, Poynter, PC World, LAPTOP Mag, Liliputing, Gizmodo, eBookNewser, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, rbr.com, 9to5Mac and NetNewsCheck Latest, more at Techmeme »
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Wall Street's Demand for Demand Media Falls Off — After the markets close tomorrow, Demand Media will report its second-quarter earnings. — Wall Street is expecting a solid performance from the Santa Monica, Calif.-based online content maker compared to last year.
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Business Wire, TechCrunch and paidContent
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
Demand Media Buys IndieClick, RSS Graffiti; Expands Google Ad Deal
Demand Media Buys IndieClick, RSS Graffiti; Expands Google Ad Deal
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AllThingsD and LAUNCH, more at Techmeme »
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AOL Earnings: Shares Plummet Despite Ad Revenue Gains — The addition of the Huffington Post and other acquisitions allowed AOL chairman Tim Armstrong to tell Wall Street what it has long waited to hear: the internet company's global advertising revenues grew in the second quarter, the first time that's happened since 2008.
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Phone-hacking scoopster Nick Davies may join Guardian's planned U.S. operation — When not tirelessly chronicling the ongoing British phone-hacking saga, The Guardian has been lining up journalists to staff the U.S.-based website that the U.K. broadsheet plans to have up and running sometime this fall.
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The New York Observer and Jon Slattery
Alison Kitchens / American Journalism Review:
On the Beet — Beet.TV makes its mark with video interviews of media and technology executives. Tues., Aug. 9, 2011 — Alison Kitchens (akitchens@ajr.umd.edu) is an AJR editorial assistant. — If your job has something to do with digital media, chances are Andy Plesser is looking for you.
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The Huffington Post
Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:
Host your own crowdsourced investigation with the Help Me Investigate plugin — When we open-sourced the code for Help Me Investigate the plan was to move from a single site to a decentralised, networked structure. Now, thanks to Andy Dickinson, it has become even easier for anyone to host their own journalism crowdsourcing platform.
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The Help Me Investigate blog and AndyDickinson.net
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Brooklyn's Latest Local News Site Aims For Gritty, Not Trendy — The world isn't lacking for news about Brooklyn's artisanal pickles, flea markets and beekeeping, but a new site, Brooklyn Bureau, aims to focus on the less hip side of New York City's largest borough.
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Brooklyn Community Foundation
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New Stats: Book Publishing Is Growing; E-Book Revs and Sales Up Over 1000% — One positive story in a week of terrible economic news: BookStats, a new annual statistical survey of raw sales revenue and unit data provided by nearly 2,000 publishers that is being released today …
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Armed With $7M In New Funding, Movieclips Lands Deal With YouTube To Be The Vevo Of Film Clips — We're big fans of online movie clips site Movieclips.com, which launched in 2009 as a search engine with over 20,000 different clips from thousands of titles from the libraries of 20th Century Fox …
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VentureBeat, GigaOM, The Wrap, Business Wire and ReadWriteWeb, more at Techmeme »
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Fast Chat: CNN President Ken Jautz — Since taking over as president of U.S. operations at CNN last September, Ken Jautz has been struggling to jazz-up what had become a snoozing network—at least by the clamorous standards of the cable news universe—with high-profile hires like Erin Burnett …
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TVNewser and Inside Cable News