Mediagazer: War-Torn: CBS Reporter Cami McCormick's Latest Story About Combat and Its Aftermath is Her Own (Alex Horton/Washingtonian)

4:45 AM ET, July 3, 2014

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Thanks To “Right To Be Forgotten,” Google Now Censors The Press In The EU — The EU's Right To Be Forgotten removals have been happening for about a week on Google, and now news publications are discovering the fallout. For some searches, you can't find their news stories relating to certain people.

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EU's right to be forgotten: Guardian articles have been hidden by Google — Publishers must fight back against this indirect challenge to press freedom, which allows articles to be ‘disappeared’. Editorial decisions belong with them, not Google — When you Google someone from within the EU …

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Sam Kirkland / Poynter:

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Alex Horton / Washingtonian:

War-Torn: CBS Reporter Cami McCormick's Latest Story About Combat and Its Aftermath is Her Own — When she returned to war zones after losing her leg as an embedded journalist, “I wasn't such an outsider anymore.” — Leon Panetta has a great story about Cami McCormick, from a trip to Afghanistan, ten days before Christmas 2012.

Dominic Smith / Guardian:

Council spent £200,000 trying to unmask blogger — A Freedom of Information request has forced South Tyneside council to admit how much they spent trying (and failing) to discover the identity of Mr Monkey, who made allegations of impropriety against four senior members of the authority.

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Charlotte Higgins / Guardian:

The BBC informs, educates and entertains but in what order? — From the broadcaster's earliest days, the balance between the popular and the niche has been firecely contested — BBC Broadcasting House, Langham Place, London. Photograph by Graham Turner Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian