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9:35 AM ET, September 28, 2011

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Dylan Stableford / Yahoo! News:
Media coverage of Wall Street protest ramps up following cop clash  —  Major media outlets—Yahoo included—have drawn criticism for their collective lack of coverage of the ongoing, youth-led protests near Wall Street.  But it appears that tide is changing.
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Jerry Barmash / FishbowlNY:
WNET/MetroFocus Reporter Calls Arrest at Occupy Wall Street Protest ‘Pretty Terrifying’  —  A young reporter got caught in the crosshairs of a chaotic scene in Lower Manhattan.  John Farley (left) of WNET's new online local news magazine, MetroFocus was at the Occupy Wall Street protests on September 24th.
Discussion: Future of Journalism
Julia Angwin / Digits:
Wall Street Journal Revises Its Privacy Policy  —  The Wall Street Journal revised its website privacy policy on Tuesday to allow the site to connect personally identifiable information with Web browsing data without user consent.  —  Previously, the Journal's privacy policy stated that it would obtain …
Discussion: Lauren Weinstein
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Dan Gillmor / Google+:   What a crappy and hypocritical move by the Wall Street Journal …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Hearst Passes 300,000 Monthly Digital Subscribers, Takes a Bow  —  Hearst, which is about to sell its digital magazines via Amazon's new tablet, wants the world to know it's selling its digital magazines on plenty of other gadgets, too: The publisher says it is now racking up more than 300,000 paid digital downloads per month.
Media Decoder:
James Rubin Abruptly Departs Bloomberg  —  5:03 p.m. |  Updated James P. Rubin, a former assistant secretary of state hired by Bloomberg News just 10 months ago to help lead its new opinion-writing section, has left his job after a rocky start.  —  His departure came as a surprise …
Bloomberg:
News Corp. Marketer Used Movie Lessons to Instill Fear in Rivals, Clients  —  A News Corp. unit that used lessons gleaned from gangster films to motivate employees and crush rivals is the latest arm of Rupert Murdoch's media empire to be swept up in a probe that began with hacking and bribery allegations.
Discussion: Business Insider and Mogulite
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
News Corp.'s U.K. Actions Under Scrutiny In U.S.
Discussion: Poynter and Capital New York
Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
In switch, cable operators want to go “a la carte”  —  * Programmers will resist attempts to unbundle programs  —  * Sports rights and retransmission fees are biggest costs  —  U.S. cable operators are privately working on a plan to force programmers to unbundle their networks and allow customers …
Alex Sherman / Bloomberg:
Time Warner Cable Said to Be Close to Offering HBO Go to Subscribers  —  Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC) is close to offering the HBO Go application to its 12.2 million video subscribers, enabling them to watch shows including “The Sopranos” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” on mobile devices …
Discussion: Deadline.com
Ryan Block / gdgt:
Oh, one more thing about the Amazon tablet: the second, better version is coming very soon  —  Yesterday I posted about how the Kindle teams used the RIM PlayBook to get a color e-reader product out the door (gdgt.com­/discuss­/the­- amazon­-tablet­-will­- look­-like­-...).
Nat Ives / AdAge:
Sports Illustrated Gets Roles for Swimsuit Models in EA's New ‘Need for Speed’  —  Offers Subscription Plus Full Game for Less Than the Game's Retail Cost  —  Sports Illustrated is trying to find new readers by integrating a pair of its Swimsuit models, as well as billboards promoting the magazine …
Discussion: New York Post and mediabistro.com
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Christina Warren / Mashable!:
Sports Illustrated Puts Football Rivals on the iPhone and iPad
Discussion: App Advice and eMedia Vitals
Gail Shister / TVNewser:
Andy Rooney To End Regular ‘60 Minutes’ Appearances  —  First on TVNewser: Andy Rooney's “60 Minutes” commentary on Sunday is expected to be his last regular appearance, TVNewser has learned.  —  Rooney, who began his whimsical end-of-show pieces in 1978, was MIA from last week's 44th-season premiere.
Ben Popper / Betabeat:
How Newsweek's Most Notorious Fellow Got Caught Conning Silicon Alley  —  Jerry Guo considers himself a modern nomad.  The 24-year-old Chinese-American stays in a different apartment each month, couch surfing or subletting, whatever works best.  “Moving around makes it easier to find cool new venues,” Mr. Guo explained.
Discussion: Poynter and Gawker
Dave Itzkoff / ArtsBeat:
Questions Raised About Dylan Show at Gagosian  —  Michael Kennedy Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery  —  Bob Dylan in his studio in the late 1980s.  —  The freewheeling artistic style of Bob Dylan, who has drawn on a variety of sources in creating his music and has previously raised questions …
Discussion: Guardian and The New York Observer
Richard Huff / NY Daily News:
Erin Burnett spearheads new CNN series ‘OutFront,’ hopes to cover news stories on the front lines  —  Erin Burnett's new show ‘OutFront’ will start Monday at 7 p.m.  —  Erin Burnett and her team behind “OutFront,” the CNN series launching Monday, have spent recent days working on sample shows.
J.C. Derrick / Reporters Committee News:
Reporters removed by police at D.C. Council meeting  —  Keywords: City politics; Meetings laws  —  Several reporters claim the Washington, D.C., city council violated its own open meetings law when it ordered police to remove the media from a recent meeting, which was called to discuss in-fighting among council members.
Alison Flood / Guardian:
Julian Assange memoir sells just 644 copies  —  Huge publicity last week managed to generate only very modest sales for his ‘Unauthorised Autobiography’  —  Despite acres of publicity and buckets of scandal, Julian Assange's unauthorised autobiography sold just 644 copies last week.
Discussion: Bookseller news and Gawker
Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer:
Observer Media Group Launches GalleristNY  —  Tomorrow the Observer Media Group will launch GalleristNY.com, a spin-off of Observer.com.  —  GalleristNY will be dedicated to the comprehensive coverage of the New York art world, in The Observer's irreverent house style.
Discussion: Adweek
Nancy Scola / The Atlantic Online:
Facebook PAC: When Social Media Companies Discover They're Big Media  —  A season of political moves should remind us of the corporate interests of the new Internet utilities  —  On Monday, Facebook filed papers to launch FB PAC.  The political action committee is designed …
 
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
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Brian Steinberg / AdAge:
Conan's Ratings Are Down, but He's Huge Online
Tim Edwards / PC Gamer:
ITV documentary can't tell the difference between gaming and reality; mistakes Arma 2 for secret IRA film
Media Week:
Ad decline at Associated slows to 1%
Discussion: Guardian and Press Gazette
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
How publishers can overcome the abundance problem in mobile advertising
Discussion: eMedia Vitals
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AOL Rejigs Europe Leadership: Burns Out, GoViral Chiefs Up
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China's ‘Facebook’ RenRen Buys China's ‘YouTube’ 56.com
Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:
Israel releases Palestinian Al Jazeera journalist
Discussion: Guardian and Media News
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
In real-time, journalists' tweets contribute to a ‘raw draft’ of history
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Matt Mullenweg says WordPress is “forking” Advanced Custom Fields, a plugin developed by WP Engine; ACF team says the plugin was taken away “without consent”

Wes Davis / The Verge:
Threads users criticize Meta after the company posted AI-generated images of the Aurora Borealis on its Threads account

Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple adds an option in iOS 18.1 to let users set a “Primary” email address in Settings, letting users change the email associated with their Apple Account

 
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