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2 hrs ago | The New York Observer

Morning Media Mix

Yesterday, PBS sent an email to some 50 news organizations with information about an interview that would air on Charlie Rose later that night, noting that the information was embargoed until after the show aired at 11 pm.

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Related Topix: Charlie Rose, Entertainment, Television, Journalism, Buffalo, NY

Tue Jun 18, 2013

WCAX-TV Burlington

Award winning journalist from Vt. killed in car accident

Michael Hastings was killed early Tuesday morning in a car accident in Los Angeles.

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Related Topix: Vermont, Burlington, VT, Chittenden County, VT

The Standard

Rolling Stone reporter who exposed sacked general dies in crash

Michael Hastings, the Rolling Stone journalist who triggered the 2010 downfall of US Afghanistan commander General Stanley McChrystal, died in a car crash, his employer announced.

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Related Topix: Journalism, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama

International Business Times

BuzzFeed Copyright Lawsuit May Test Legal Limits Of Fair Use In...

Ever wonder how BuzzFeed secures the rights for all those seductively sharable photo montages? The answer is, it often doesn't, and that can be a messy business.

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Related Topix: Social Software, DMCA News

CNN

BuzzFeed: Pageant cringes

Miss Connecticut Erin Brady reacts after being crowned Miss USA during the 2013 Miss USA pageant on Sunday, June 16, in Las Vegas.

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Poynter Online

Novel legal theories mingle in BuzzFeed photo suit

PaidContent Idaho photographer Kai Eiselein is suing BuzzFeed in U.S. District Court, claiming the site should pay not only for infringing his copyright when it ran his image but also for all the sites that subsequently posted it .

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Mon Jun 17, 2013

Switched

Obama Defends 'Transparent' NSA Program

US President Barack Obama delivers a keynote address at Waterfront Hall in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on June 17, 2013, ahead of the G8 summit.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Barack Obama, World News, United Kingdom, Antrim County, Northern Ireland, Down County, Northern Ireland, Belfast County, Northern Ireland, Dianne Feinstein, US Senate, Democrat, Senator Mark Udall

Sports of Yore

9 Insider Tips for Native Advertising That Actually Works

Native advertising is all the rage in publishing right now. The Atlantic and Forbes are doing it, as are the Washington Post and The New York Times .

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Related Topix: Publishing, Media, Forbes, New Times, Federated Media, Sharethrough, eMarketer

The Daily Beast

7. Sour Grapes Charlie Trotter Sued Over $46K Bottle of Wine Plaintiffs say he sold them a fake.More

The office of the Director of National Intelligence on Sunday disputed Edward Snowden's claims that a single analyst could have tapped into phone calls without warrants-and that Congress was never briefed of this practice.

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Related Topix: Wine, Drink, Europe, World News, United Kingdom, Turkey, Middle East, Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Sun Jun 16, 2013

DigiDay

Why Publishers Should Ban Slideshows

"Slideshow" has become a dirty word on the Web, and with good reason. Here's why Buzzfeed will never have slideshows and what that means in the media industry.

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Sat Jun 15, 2013

Crooks and Liars

'Operation Troll the NSA' Launched by Buzzfeed Staffers

"Operation Troll the USA" was launched earlier this week in response to revelations of a vast secret surveillance program operated by the National Security Agency made by Edward Snowden.

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Related Topix: Startups, Facebook, Widevine Technologies, US News, Liberal Political News

TechCrunch

Can BuzzFeed Be Stopped?

Jon Evans is a novelist, journalist, and software engineer. His novels have been published around the world, translated into several languages, and praised by The Times, The Economist, and the Washington Post.

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Related Topix: Journalism, Publishing, Media, New Times, New York

Fri Jun 14, 2013

Stereogum

Watch Marnie Stern Perform For Dogs

Marnie Stern is a dog person; we know this because she rarely goes anywhere without her tiny terrier Fig.

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Related Topix: Marnie Stern

Thu Jun 13, 2013

The Pordland Mercury

Not Saying Merkley's Making Hay About NSA Surveillance for Publicity But...

You know how US Sen. Jeff Merkley has made us proud in recent days? How he's been really offended at all these new intelligence disclosures, championing the public's right to know if they're being surveilled by the government, clamoring for better congressional oversight of these things? According to reports from Buzzfeed and Politico , Merkley ... (more)

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Ron Wyden, Democrat

Switched

'We've Entered A New Level Of Nerd'

If you have to read a comic book before you play a video game, you've definitely reached a new level of nerd.

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Related Topix: Conan O'Brien, Injustice: Gods Among Us, NetherRealm Studios, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Video Games

The Daily Beast

4. Democracy? Psh! Clinton: Obama May Be a - Wuss' on Syria Urges intervention despite congress.More

The allegations of misconduct in the State Department are starting to make sense: they're hiring criminals, according to an internal memo obtained by the New York Post .

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Related Topix: New York, 2012, Gliese Games, Video Games

Mobile Marketer

Mobile-first breaks down screens, says Buzzfeed exec

A Buzzfeed executive at the 2013 MultiScreen Summit said that since consumers do not think about content only living on one screen, taking a device-agnostic approach is key for the company.

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Related Topix: Marketing

Wed Jun 12, 2013

CBS News

Video: Sen. Mikulski calls out reporter's Twitter post in real time

"Any senator can ask any question at this hearing that they want to, so Rosie, it's an open hearing," she said, brandishing her cell phone with a smile.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Barbara Mikulski, Twitter, Senator Jeff Merkley, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Carl Levin

Monsters and Critics

Melissa McCarthy's slimmed down movie poster raising eyebrows

Melissa McCarthy - CinemaCon 2013 - Day 4 - Big Screen Achievement Awards 2013 - Caesars Palace Hotel and Casino - Las Vegas, NV, USA © PRN / PRPhotos.com The new buddy-cop comedy, which opens in the U.S. June 28 and across the pond July 31, has McCarthy playing Hardy to Bullock's Laurel.

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Related Topix: Las Vegas, NV

The Washington Post

NSA: a Dozensa of attacks thwarted

Video: The provision that allowed the NSA to collect phone records has helped thwart "dozens" of terror events, Gen.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Barbara Mikulski, World News, India,

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