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How To Be A Citizen Journalist Without Getting Killed

8:14AM October 27, 2011 | Roberto Baldwin

Last night, while the local news affiliate was off refuelling its helicopter, police fired tear gas into a crowd of Occupy Oakland protesters. Even though there were no official media on the scene, the action was captured and distributedby citizen journalists who were among those being assailed. Thank goodness. More »

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Everything You Need To Know About The AOL TechCrunch Deal

3:14AM September 10, 2011 | Mat Honan

AOL’s Techcrunch is in disarray. Last week AOL/Techcrunch announced a new venture fund that would finance the kind of start-ups it covers. That made lots of people cry foul. Now Mike’s out of a job. What does it all mean? More »

Mobile

How News Of The World Hacked Everybody’s Phones

7:45AM July 20, 2011 | Rachel Swaby

For a while, leaving your phone unattended seemed like the biggest threat to phone security. But this recent business is a reminder that there are savvier ways someone can violate your phone – without even touching it. More »

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In Defence Of Sleazy Journalism

3:18AM July 14, 2011 | John Cook

As delightful as it’s been to watch Rupert Murdoch’s British fiefdom slowly drown in a foul swamp of wickedness and criminality, it’s worth remembering that all good reporters are amoral monsters and that without a lot of highly questionable behaviour on the part of sordid hacks around the world, we wouldn’t know half the things we need to know. More »

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News Of The World Probably Tried To Hack 9/11 Victims’ Phones Too

3:40AM July 12, 2011 | Jeff Neumann

And now for some news that probably won’t shock you: According to a report in the Daily Mirror today, reporters from Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World asked a former NYPD officer who was working as a private investigator to access the phone records of British 9/11 victims. More »

Online

Google+ For Freedom

11:00PM July 4, 2011 | Mat Honan

In case you were wondering if you should sign up for yet another social network, there’s a compelling reason to use Google+ that you may not have thought of: freedom. More »

News

I Call This Blackmail

3:23AM June 22, 2011 | Mat Honan

AOL employee Mike Arrington is angry! The TechCrunch founder and co-editor fired off a histrionic screed yesterday directed at Caterina Fake, founder of Flickr and Hunch, with an explicit threat aimed at anyone who doesn’t kowtow to him. More »

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Disgraced Former Spy Anna Chapman Now A Tech Journalist

3:20AM June 4, 2011 | Sam Biddle

If there’s anything that Anna Chapman is apparently worse at than being a Russian spy, it’s holding down a job. She’s now gone from bank IT, to cosmonaut suit design, to… get ready… venture capital editor. This just got personal. More »

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Family Says Missing Photographer Killed In Libya

8:20PM May 20, 2011 | Jeff Neumann

Three journalists who were captured and detained by Qaddafi loyalists in early April – James Foley, Clare Morgana Gillis and Manu Brabo – were released yesterday. The fate of a fourth journalist who was with them, 41-year-old South African photojournalist Anton Hammerl, had been unclear for the past six weeks. More »

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Hidden Qaddafi Bunker Uncovered Using Twitter

9:20AM May 19, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

Armed with an internet connection and his Twitter account, Sky New’s reporter Mark Stone uncovered the truth about a NATO airstrike that supposedly killed a number of Libyan civilians last week. More »