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Daily Must Reads, Jan. 27, 2012

by MediaShift on Jan 27, 2012 • No Comments

he best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung.

1. Twitter to block tweets on case-by-case basis (CNET)

2. Twitter faces censorship backlash (paidContent)

3. Google spent almost $2 billion on acquisitions in 2011 (TechCrunch)

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Bill Bratton Casually Reveals To Cenk Uygur That LAPD Coordinated With The CIA

by Tommy Christopher on Jan 26, 2012 • No Comments

Former LAPD Police Chief and Collaborate Or Perish! author William Bratton seems to have dropped something of a bomb on Current TV's The Young Turks, telling host Cenk Uygur Tuesday night that his LAPD "had interactions with the CIA" to "to make them aware of our capabilities and our needs."While the CIA's coordination...

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NewsRight’s potential: New content packages, niche audiences, and revenue

by Martin Langeveld on Jan 17, 2012 • No Comments

When NewsRight began to lift the veil a couple of weeks ago, most of the attention and analysis focused on "preserving the value" of news content for content owners and originators. In the first round of reports and commentary on the launch, various bloggers and analysts quickly made comparisons to Righthaven, the infamous and all-but-defunct...

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Remember the beacon? Newly formed NewsRight is the evolution of AP’s News Registry

by Andrew Phelps on Jan 5, 2012 • No Comments

Twenty-nine major news organizations have signed on as investors in NewsRight, a newly launched company that aims to make it easier for publishers to license and track their content on the web. David Westin, the president of NewsRight and former head of ABC News, says news organizations are suffering even though demand for news on...

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The newsonomics of the News Dial-o-Matic

by Ken Doctor on Jan 5, 2012 • No Comments

It's an emerging issue of our time and place. They know too much about us, and we know too little about what they know. We do know that what they know about us is increasingly determining what they choose to give us to read. We wonder: What are we missing? And just who is making...

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Media Decoder Blog: The Breakfast Meeting, Dec. 21

by By NOAM COHEN on Dec 21, 2011 • No Comments

Keeping terrorist threats out of science journals, pushing back against Politifact and Hollywood goes all in on a holiday gamble.

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New York Police Are Ordered to Let Journalists Work

by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS on Nov 27, 2011 • No Comments

Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly has issued an internal message warning that New York City officers who interfere unreasonably with journalists’ access will be subject to disciplinary action.

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Associated Mess: AP Reports Christopher Walken Impersonator’s Natalie Wood Quotes As News

by Tommy Christopher on Nov 18, 2011 • No Comments

There's a new development in the now-reopened 1981 drowning death of actress Natalie Wood. The Associated Press reported Friday afternoon that actor Christopher Walken told a DC sports radio station that "there was drinking and shouting on the boat and that then 'there was tragedy.'"Unfortunately, the quote was actually from one of...

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This Week in Review: An Internet censorship threat, and news orgs’ one-way Twitter use

by Mark Coddington on Nov 18, 2011 • No Comments

Plus: Journalists arrested at Occupy Wall Street, more fallout over Romenesko and attribution, Amazon's Kindle Fire release, and the rest of the week's future-of-news reads.

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Media Decoder Blog: Breakfast Meeting, Nov. 17

by By NOAM COHEN on Nov 17, 2011 • No Comments

The National Book Awards are announced, The Associated Press gets caught up in a Twitter debate and an independently distributed debut album tops the charts.

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The newsonomics of Yahoo Livestand

by Ken Doctor on Nov 3, 2011 • No Comments

Those Pew research numbers — 11 percent of U.S. adults owning a tablet, tablet news-reading numbers off the charts — make everybody even hungrier. Yahoo is the latest to try to get in on the growing banquet of reading riches, with its long-awaited Livestand tablet news product launch Wednesday. It joins the summer-launched AOL Editions...

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Truth-O-Meter, franchised: PolitiFact places its bets on expanding to states

by Justin Ellis on Sep 19, 2011 • No Comments

Since it launched in 2007, PolitiFact has generally been seen as a keep-them-honest tool for politicos on the national level: the president, Congress, and the talking heads who circle both. But PolitiFact’s future may actually exist on the state level — as something of a journalistic franchise that supports local newspapers while expanding PolitiFact’s coverage...

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Daily Must Reads, Jan. 27, 2012

Bill Bratton Casually Reveals To Cenk Uygur That LAPD Coordinated With The CIA

NewsRight’s potential: New content packages, niche audiences, and revenue

Remember the beacon? Newly formed NewsRight is the evolution of AP’s News Registry

New York Police Are Ordered to Let Journalists Work

Associated Mess: AP Reports Christopher Walken Impersonator’s Natalie Wood Quotes As News

Media Decoder Blog: Breakfast Meeting, Nov. 17

The newsonomics of Yahoo Livestand

Truth-O-Meter, franchised: PolitiFact places its bets on expanding to states

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