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How the Daily Mail stormed the US

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - By Brian Wheeler - Jan. 27 (News Report) - The Daily Mail has overtaken the New York Times as the world's most popular newspaper website. How did it do it?

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Google's Social Move Attracts Critics - NYTimes.com

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - Jan. 10 (News Report) - After Google announced that it was integrating material from Google+ into its search results, the Web shot back, attacking the company and accusing it of pushing aside competing social networks, including Twitter and Facebook.

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Press Widely Criticized, But Trusted More than Other Institutions

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Pew Research - Sep. 24 (Special Report) - Negative opinions about the performance of news organizations now equal or surpass all-time highs on nine of 12 core measures the Pew Research Center has been tracking since 1985. However, these bleak findings are put into some perspective by the fact that news organizations are more trusted sources of information than are many other institutions, including government and business.

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Roger Ailes and the rise of Fox News

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Tim Dickinson - Aug. 11 (News Report) - Even Rupert Murdoch is afraid of Roger Ailes, the paranoid boss of Fox News. But 'the Chairman' is using his power to make Americans more rightwing, more ignorant and ever more terrified At the Fox News Chrismas party the year the network overtook arch-rival CNN in the cable ratings, tipsy employees were herded down to the basement of a midtown bar in New York. As they gathered around a television mounted high on the wall, an image flashed to life, glowing bright in the darkened tavern: the MSNBC logo. A chorus of boos erupted among the Fox faithful. The CNN logo followed, and the catcalls multiplied. Then a third slide appeared, with a telling twist. In place of the logo for Fox News was a beneficent visage: the face of the network's founder. The man known to his fiercest loyalists simply as "the Chairman" – Roger Ailes. "It was as though we were looking at Mao," recalls Charlie Reina, a former Fox News producer. The Foxistas went wild. They let the dogs out. Woof! Woof! Woof! Even those ...

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Cameron on riots: ‘We will not put up with this’

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - Aug. 10 (News Report) - Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday said “nothing is off the table” to regain control of British streets — telling the nation that rubber bullets had been authorized and water cannons were on standby after violence and looting hit Manchester, Birmingham and other British cities. London, the capital, was mostly quiet overnight. But the riots that began last week after a police-involved shooting continued to rock other British cities. Under fire for the government’s handing of the disturbances, Cameron said the relative calm in London spoke to the forceful deployment of 16,000 troops on the streets.

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UK riots: fifth night live coverage

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - Aug. 10 (Breaking News) - 7.43pm: A 20-year old woman has been charged after allegedly posting a Facebook invite to a "riot" in Wakefield. The woman was charged under the Serious Offences Act 2007 and has been bailed to appear before Wakefield Magistrates on August 24, said a West Yorkshire Police spokeswoman.

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Clean-up as England riots spread

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Aug. 10 (News Report) - The prime minister has said the "fightback" is under way, after cities in England suffered a fourth night of violence and looting. David Cameron said every action would be taken to restore order, with contingency plans for water cannon to be available at 24 hours' notice. On Tuesday night, unrest spread to cities including Manchester, Salford, Liverpool, Nottingham and Birmingham. Three men aged 21, 30 and 31 died when they were hit by a car in Birmingham. Haroon Jahan, Shahzad Ali, and Abdul Musavir were taken to hospital but died from their injuries.

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Women! Wikipedia needs you

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Jemima Kiss - Aug. 08 (Special Report) - In a revealing glimpse inside the Wikipedia kimono at its annual conference in Haifa at the weekend, co-founder Jimmy Wales described the typical Wikipedia editor as a 26-year-old geeky male with a PhD. Eventually he'll get married, go on to some other project and leave the site, said Wales. And Wikipedia's own research found that 90% of editors are male. This imbalance has meant that while technology and science are covered comprehensively, other subjects are left wanting. "The main thing is to bring in people of all different backgrounds," Wales told the event, reports the Independent. "If you do that, you increase the knowledge base of the site, which can only be a good thing. At the moment, we are relatively poor in a few areas; for example, biographies of famous women through history and issues surrounding early childcare."

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BBC News - Libya: Curious incident of the child 'air raid victim'

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - By Wyre Davies - Jun. 07 (News Report) - The official position in Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's Libya is that the foreign Press is free to report on what we like. The reality is very different, and when reporting from the government side we have to work under extremely restrictive conditions.

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WikiLeaks accused Bradley Manning 'should never have been sent to Iraq'

Sat, 28 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Maggie O'Kane, Chavala Madlena, Guy Grandjean - May. 28 (Investigative Report) - Guardian exclusive: Soldier held over US intelligence leak was known to be mentally fragile and unsuited to army life The American soldier at the centre of the WikiLeaks revelations was so mentally fragile before his deployment to Iraq that he wet himself, threw chairs around, shouted at his commanding officers and was regularly brought in for psychiatric evaluations, according to an investigative film produced by the Guardian . Bradley Manning, who was detained a year ago on Sunday in connection with the biggest security leak in US military history, was a "mess of a child" who should never have been put through a tour of duty in Iraq, according to an officer from the Fort Leonard Wood military base in Missouri, where Manning trained in 2007. The officer's words reinforce a leaked confidential military report that reveals that other senior officers thought he was unfit to go to Iraq. "He was harassed so much that he once pissed in his sweatpants," the officer said. "I escorted Manning ...

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WikiSecrets

Tue, 24 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Frontline - By Martin Smith - May. 24 (Special Report) - It's the biggest intelligence breach in U.S. history -- the leaking of more than a half million classified documents on the WikiLeaks website throughout 2010. At the center of the controversy stands Bradley E. Manning, the Army intelligence analyst who's charged with handing them over. Who is Bradley Manning, and what does his story tell us about how and why the secret cache of documents may have been leaked? In WikiSecrets, FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith gains exclusive access to those closest to Manning -- including his father, close friends and his Army bunkmate -- and uncovers video of Manning taken around the time of the alleged handover of classified information.

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The new tech bubble

Sun, 15 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - May. 15 (News) - Some time after the dotcom boom turned into a spectacular bust in 2000, bumper stickers began appearing in Silicon Valley imploring: “Please God, just one more bubble.” That wish has now been granted. Compared with the rest of America, Silicon Valley feels like a boomtown. Corporate chefs are in demand again, office rents are soaring and the pay being offered to talented folk in fashionable fields like data science is reaching Hollywood levels. And no wonder, given the prices now being put on web companies. Facebook and Twitter are not listed, but secondary-market trades value them at some $76 billion (more than Boeing or Ford) and $7.7 billion respectively. This week LinkedIn, a social network for professionals, said it hopes to be valued at up to $3.3 billion in an initial public offering (IPO). The next day Microsoft announced its purchase of Skype, an internet calling and video service, for a frothy-looking $8.5 billion—ten times its sales last year and 400 times its operating income. And those are all big-brand companies with customers around the world. Prices look even more excessive for fledgling firms in the private market (Color, a photo-sharing social network, was recently said to be worth $100m, even though it has an untested service) or for anything involving China. There has been a stampede for shares in Renren, hailed as “China’s Facebook”, and other Chinese web giants listed on American exchanges.

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Overwhelmed Internet users choose to unplug — for a little while

Sun, 15 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Gus Sentementes - May. 15 (News) - Consciously avoiding using the Web may seem impossible to many in this era of information overload. Researchers on the issue say addiction to information may be similar in some ways to the effect that certain drugs have on the human brain — and some people may need to take disciplined breaks from their gadgets.

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New York Times Pay Wall Gets More Than 100,000 Takers in Early Weeks

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Advertising Age - By Nat Ives - Apr. 21 (News) - More than 100,000 people have forked over credit-card numbers to get through the digital pay wall erected by the New York Times on March 28.

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Barack Obama reelect’s first job: Reconnect

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Mike Allen - Apr. 15 (News Report) - President Barack Obama’s fledgling reelection campaign is building a volunteer network with the audacious goal of contacting every single person who voted for him in 2008, as part of a reinvented voter outreach that will be as focused on smart phones in 2012 as it was on text messages last time.

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NPR’s Andy Carvin, tweeting the Middle East

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Paul Farhi - Apr. 13 (News Report) - Since December, Andy Carvin, a social-media strategist at NPR in Washington, has become a one-man Twitter news bureau, chronicling fast-moving developments throughout the Middle East.

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Nic Robertson's harrowing tweets from Libya

Sat, 26 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Jeff Jarvis, Nic Robertson - Mar. 26 (News Report) - Woman came into restaurant of journalists' hotel today claiming she’d been detained at govt chkpt, held 2 days, tied up, beaten and raped. Within mins of beginning to tell her story, govt officls and hotel staff moved in to shut her up. CNN cameraman on scene said she showed journalsts bruises, scratches on thighs, bruised face, rope burns on wrists & ankles

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'New York Times' Unveils Metered Online Paywall

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - By David Folkenflik - Mar. 18 (News Report) - The Times is unveiling a metered system under which the paper's most loyal readers would pay for access to the website, though most casual online readers would not pay a cent. Print subscribers would also continue to receive unfettered access at no additional cost. Executives say the time is right, as people have been conditioned by tablets and smart phones to pay for access to content. "We have to be agnostic in regard to how people digest the news product," Janet Robinson, the CEO of The New York Times Co., said in an interview with NPR. "We can't force them to buy a print subscription. We can't force them to buy a digital application. We have to be there in every venue."

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Larry Page Wants to Return Google to Its Startup Roots

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Steven Levy - Mar. 18 (News Report) - After a 10-year run in which Google's revenues skyrocketed to almost $30 billion, Larry Page is CEO again, and he wants to run Google the old-fashioned way: like a startup.

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The State of the News Media 2011

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Pew Research - By Amy Mitchell, Tom Rosenstiel, Paul Moore, Rick Edmonds, Deborah Potter - Mar. 14 (News Analysis) - By several measures, the state of the American news media improved in 2010. After two dreadful years, most sectors of the industry saw revenue begin to recover. With some notable exceptions, cutbacks in newsrooms eased. And while still more talk than action, some experiments with new revenue models began to show signs of blossoming. Among the major sectors, only newspapers suffered continued revenue declines last year—an unmistakable sign that the structural economic problems facing newspapers are more severe than those of other media. When the final tallies are in, we estimate 1,000 to 1,500 more newsroom jobs will have been lost—meaning newspaper newsrooms are 30% smaller than in 2000. Beneath all this, however, a more fundamental challenge to journalism became clearer in the last year. The biggest issue ahead may not be lack of audience or even lack of new revenue experiments. It may be that in the digital realm the news industry is no longer in control of its own future. News organizations — old and new — still produce most of the content audiences consume. But each technological advance has added a new layer of complexity—and a new set of players—in connecting that content to consumers and advertisers.

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Hebrew University's Einstein archives to go online

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Jerusalem Post - By Ben Hartman - Mar. 14 (News Report) - Albert Einstein will go digital in the coming months, as the Hebrew University of Jerusalem begins a project to digitize the German-Jewish physicist's archives. The digitization is expected to take around one year and then the over 80,000 documents will be available on the Albert Einstein Archives website.

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Hacker group vows 'cyberwar' on US government, business

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

MSNBC - By Michael Isikoff - Mar. 09 (Special Report) - A leader of the computer hackers group known as Anonymous is threatening new attacks on major U.S. corporations and government officials as part of at an escalating “cyberwar” against the citadels of American power.

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Soldier Faces 22 New WikiLeaks Charges

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Charlie Savage - Mar. 03 (News) - The Army announced 22 additional charges on Wednesday against Pfc. Bradley Manning, the military intelligence analyst who is accused of leaking a trove of government files to WikiLeaks a year ago.

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Democrats call for an investigation of Hunton & Williams

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:34:28 -0800

Washington Post - By Dan Eggen - Feb. 28 (News Report) - A group of House Democrats is calling on Republican leaders to investigate a prominent Washington law firm and three federal technology contractors, who have been shown in hacked e-mails discussing a "disinformation campaign" against foes of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

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WikiLeaks crippled by ex-associates, sources say

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - By Mark Hosenball - Feb. 10 (News Report) - WikiLeaks' ability to receive new leaks has been crippled after a disaffected programer unplugged a component which guaranteed anonymity to would-be leakers, activists and journalists who have worked with the site say.

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