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• Study: Twitter ‘has a distinct geographic profile’ from mainstream media

  Andrew Beaujon @ Poynter - TV / Radio - 2 days ago

  A study of the “geography of Twitter” compares, among many other data sets, what it calls “Twitter versus mainstream news media. ” This part of Kalev Leetaru, Shaowen Wang, Guofeng Cao, Anand Padmanabhan … Read more.

• NYT site ‘was subjected to denial of service attacks’ this week

  Andrew Beaujon @ Poynter - TV / Radio - 2 days ago

  New York Times’ site “was subjected to denial of service attacks” this week… Read more.

• Patch gets new CEO, lays off staffers

  Andrew Beaujon @ Poynter - TV / Radio - 2 days, 2 hours ago

  Steve Kalin is Patch’s new CEO, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong told Patch employees in an email Friday. Patch will also make several motions that Armstrong writes will “move Patch meaningfully toward profitability. ” Among them: layoffs.

• Stephen Colbert, Arianna Huffington among this weekend’s commencement speakers

  Andrew Beaujon @ Poynter - TV / Radio - 2 days, 5 hours ago

  Stephen Colbert is scheduled to speak Saturday at the University of Virginia. Arianna Huffington will speak at Smith College Sunday.

• Miami Herald officially moves to new headquarters

  Andrew Beaujon @ Poynter - TV / Radio - 3 days ago

  Final 3 p. m. news meeting at the bayside home of the #MiamiHerald. The newspaper has moved to #Doral. . twitter. com/MiamiHerald/st….

• Washington Post Co. shuts 2 Maryland papers

  Andrew Beaujon @ Poynter - TV / Radio - 3 days, 1 hour ago

  The Washington Post Co. announced Wednesday it would stop publishing the Frederick County, Md. , editions of its Gazette newspapers. Post-Newsweek Media CEO Karen Acton said the move “became necessary due to changes in the … Read more.

• CIA had told AP that security concerns about its story were ‘no longer an issue’

  Andrew Beaujon @ Poynter - TV / Radio - 3 days, 8 hours ago

  The Associated Press held its story about a foiled underwear bombing for five days, Carol D. Leonnig and Julie Tate report in The Washington Post. But on Monday, May 7, “CIA officials reported that the national security concerns were ‘no … Read more.

• Time magazine puts Angelina Jolie on its cover

  Andrew Beaujon @ Poynter - TV / Radio - 3 days, 11 hours ago

  Angelina Jolie will appear on the cover of Time’s new issue, out Friday, with a story by Alice Park and Jeffrey Kluger about how her revelation that she had a … Read more.

• Tampa Bay Times CEO will head Pulitzer board

  Andrew Beaujon @ Poynter - TV / Radio - 3 days, 12 hours ago

  Columbia University announced Wednesday that Tampa Bay Times chairman and CEO Paul Tash will chair the Pulitzer Prize board. Tash became a member of the board in 2006. Chairmen serve for one year, while board members serve a maximum of … Read more.

• Suit claims Baltimore police beat up woman who videotaped them

  Andrew Beaujon @ Poynter - TV / Radio - 3 days, 12 hours ago

  Courthouse News Service | Photography Is Not a Crime | Reason Makia Smith says a Baltimore police officer smashed her phone, then beat her after she filmed him beating up a man.