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Twitter can now target viewers of specific TV shows with ads

Andrew Beaujon — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:24:37 +0000

Twitter | All Things D | The Wall Street Journal

Twitter will use “video fingerprinting technology” to track who was tweeting about a show, then direct ads to that person.

Whenever a commercial airs during a TV show,
… Read more

Anthony Weiner’s website apparently shows Pittsburgh skyline

Joshua Gillin — Thu, 23 May 2013 19:49:42 +0000

The Washington Post | NBC New York | Capital

New York Times political reporter Michael Barbaro made a compelling observation about New York mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner’s website on Thursday: It seems the banner image isn’t of New York, but … Read more

Online campaign raises $15,000 for reporter who was shot in New Orleans

Taylor Miller Thomas — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:25:14 +0000

An online fundraising effort for New Orleans freelancer Deborah Cotton met its $15,000 goal within four days. While some of the donations came from her friends and family, others came from people who have never met Cotton.

Cotton was shot … Read more

Knight grants $1 million to expand library of TV news broadcasts

Taylor Miller Thomas — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:58:10 +0000

Knight Foundation

The Knight Foundation has given $1 million to the Internet Archive so it can expand its TV News Search & Borrow project, a library of television news broadcasts.

The expansion will help Internet Archive make the library more … Read more

Denver Fox affiliate, Examiner.com hoaxed by story of man being mistaken for a terrorist

Andrew Beaujon — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:17:13 +0000

TVSpy | Perazzi | KDVR | KUSA | Examiner.com

Denver TV station KDVR, a Fox affiliate, broadcast a story Saturday that claimed an Italian shotgun-company executive “was taken in for questioning by law enforcement” after a taxi driver mistook him … Read more

T Magazine photos held to a different standard, New York Times says

Joshua Gillin — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:16:27 +0000

New York Times

New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan has followed up on her May 13 post about photo standards in T Magazine following editor Deborah Needleman’s Photoshopping comments.

In the May 13 post, Needleman said she thought a … Read more

Baltimore police reporter Dick Irwin dies

Andrew Beaujon — Wed, 22 May 2013 19:45:05 +0000

The Baltimore Sun | The Real Muck

Former Baltimore Sun police reporter Dick Irwin died Wednesday. He was 76 and had complications from diabetes.

Irwin retired in 2010. Peter Hermann, now a reporter at The Washington Post, marked the … Read more

Oakland thieves hit another news van

Andrew Beaujon — Wed, 22 May 2013 17:31:41 +0000

SFGate | Oakland Tribune

Thieves busted into a KGO-TV news van Tuesday in Oakland, Calif. They also hit the car of a security guard hired to protect the crew. “No cameras or expensive gear was taken, just personal items including … Read more

What it’s like to get your phone records seized by the government

Andrew Beaujon — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:52:04 +0000

Gregory J. Millman writes about the IRS nabbing his phone records in 1991: “Outside the DOJ, any law-enforcement entity with subpoena power can obtain phone records without notice.”

To this date, I do not know how many of my phone … Read more

NYT: Scroll Kit developer ‘is bragging’ about copyright infringement

Andrew Beaujon — Wed, 22 May 2013 14:31:03 +0000

Cody Brown | TechCrunch

Cody Brown received a takedown request from The New York Times’ legal department after he posted a video showing how to replicate the “Snow Fall” experience using his tool Scroll Kit.

After he answered that … Read more