The Media Stories for 2012

Pakistan Lifts YouTube Ban For 3 Minutes, Finds More Blasphemy 275
Instagram User Drop Claims Overblown 49
A Peek Into the Business Side of Online Publishing (Video) 43
Game On War In Syria Explores Ongoing Conflict 62
EFF Spinoff Pools Donor Dollars To Prevent WikiLeaks-Style Payment Blockades 95
Researchers Develop an Internet Truth Machine 87
Washington Post To Go Paywall, Along With Buffett-Owned Local Papers 163
News Corp's The Daily iPad App Shutting Down On December 15 106
Nintendo Power's Final Cover 79
German Copyright Bill Would Let Publishers Charge Search Engines For Excerpts 114
Ad Blocking – a Coming Legal Battleground? 686
Fox News Parent NewsCorp May Face Corruption Investigation 145
Wayback Machine Trumps FOI Tribunal 401
UW Imposes 20-Tweet Limit On Live Events 196
Director General of BBC Resigns Over "Poor Journalism" 214
Cisco VP To Memo Leaker: Finding You Now 'My Hobby' 312
Bradley Manning Offers Partial Guilty Plea To Military Court 380
Judge To Newspaper - Reveal Name of Commenter 307
France Applies Tax Pressure To Google For Republishing News Snippets 350
NewsCorp/NDS Sets Up Operation To Expose Canadian Pirates; What Could Go Wrong? 95
Telling the Truth In Today's China 157
Anonymous' WikiLeaks-Like Project Tyler To Launch In December 101
NetFlix Caught Stealing DivX Subtitles From Finnish Pirates 284
Brazilian Newspapers Leave Google News En Masse 223
Google Threatens French Media Ban 419
Newsweek To Go Digital-Only In 2013 110
"New Statesman" Pirates Its Own Magazine 117
FCC To Allow Cable Companies To Encrypt Over-the-Air Channels 376
Rejected Papers Get More Citations When Eventually Published 73
Libertarian Candidate Excluded From Debate For Refusing Corporate Donations 627
WikiLeaks Losing Support From Anonymous 140
WikiLeaks Tests Donation Pop-Ups For Leaked Material 67
Jeff Bates On Niche Communities and Why Partisan News Is Normal 113
A Suicide Goes Viral On the Internet 566
Iran's News Agency Picks Up Onion Story 118
US Military Designates Julian Assange an "Enemy of State" 805
All the TV News Since 2009, Now Available At the Internet Archive 70
Dice Buys Geeknet's Media Business, Including Slashdot, In $20M Deal 466
Why WikiLeaks' Spinoff OpenLeaks Failed 79
BBC Radiophonic Workshop Revived Online 32
Scientists Themselves Play Large Role In Bad Reporting 114
Google Reinvents Micropayments — As Surveywall 107
BBC Keeps Android Flash Alive In the UK 102
Russia's Former KGB Invests In Political Propaganda Spambots 164
Inside the Business of Online Reviews For Hire 121
Photo Reveals UK Plan: "Assange To Be Arrested Under All Circumstances" 847
Why WikiLeaks Is Worth Defending 257
And Now, the Cartoon News 107
The Olympic Live Stream: Observations, Recommendations, Predictions 82
Google, Oracle Deny Direct Payments To Media 41
How Plagiarism Helped Win the American Revolution 245
Ecuador Grants Asylum To Julian Assange 923
WIPO Broadcasting Treaty Back On the Table 133
In Vietnam: Being a Blogger Could Land You In Jail, Cost You Your Life 144
A Conversation with Rob Malda - Part Three; the Finale (Video) 41
Poll Finds Americans Think the TSA Is 'Doing a Good Job' 523
A Conversation with Rob Malda - Part Two of Three (Video) 28
Baskerville Is the Greatest Font, Statistically, Says Filmmaker Errol Morris 158
A Conversation with Rob Malda - Part One of Three (Video) 72
Paid Media Must Be Disclosed In Oracle v. Google 165
Today, Everybody's a Fact Checker 143
US Viewers Using Proxies To Watch BBC Olympic Coverage 373
Spanish Superjudge To Represent Assange 196
Should Journalists Embrace Jargon? 184
The Decline of Google's (and Everybody's) Ad Business 313
Rob CmdrTaco Malda AMA On Reddit 101
Chicago Tribune Stops the Journatic Presses 62
NBC Purchases MSNBC Rights From Microsoft 209
The Fate of Newspapers: Farm It, Milk It, Or Feed It 167
Digg.com Sold To Betaworks For $500,000 193
Icelandic Court Rules: Wikileaks Will Get Contributed Credit Card Money 168
What's Wrong With American Ninja Warrior? 349
Chinese Censors Are Being Watched 71
How Huffington Post's Clever Traffic-Generation Machine Works 165
AOL: Outdoor Server Huts Are the Future 146
WikiLeaks Begins Release of 2.5m Syrian Emails 322
UK's 'Three Strikes' Piracy Measures Published 150
State Media Rushing Into Coverage Void Left By Dying Newspapers 250
Witness Ridicules 'Hands-On' Reviews of Surface 206
RIAA Goes After CNET For Media-Conversion Software 257
Time Inc. Signs Magazine Deal With Apple 83
Assange Loses Latest Round In Extradition Fight 296
NPR's "Car Talk" Glides To a Halt 148
Rights Holders See Little Point Creating Legal Content Sources 417
Fox News Ties 'Flame' Malware To Angry Birds 188
War and Nookd — eBook Regex Gone Haywire 185
Free News Unsustainable, Says Warren Buffett 198
Fox Sues Dish Over "Auto Hop" Ad-Skipping Feature 578
Could a Computer Write This Story? 101
B&N Pulls Linux Format Magazine Over Feature On 'Hacking' 301
FCC To Require TV Stations To Post Rates For Campaign Ads 106
North Carolina Threatens To Shut Down Nutrition Blogger 515
Newspapers Pollute Less On E-Readers and Tablets 113
Posting Photos of Olympics Could Land You In Court 394
Fark Founder Drew Curtis Explains How Fark Beat a Patent Troll 59
Sun Advice Columnist Advised MPs On UK Porn-Block Plans 118
Canadian Media Companies Target CBC's Free Music Site 215
Major Networks Suing To Stop Free Streaming 250
Internet Responds To Racist Article, Gets Author Fired 1208
News Corp/NDS Forces DocumentCloud To Take Down Emails 34
Proposed Chinese Copyright Changes Would Encourage Re-Use 169
NBC Apologizes For Editing Zimmerman 911 Call 1005
NY District Judge Dismisses Blogger Suit Against Huffington Post 94
Chinese Internet Firms Punished For Permitting Spread Of Political Rumors 75
Gawker Media To Require Commenters' Facebook, Twitter, Or Google Logins 231
Murdoch Faces Allegations of Sabotage 201
Dutch Artist Admits Faking Viral 'Human Bird Wing' Video 125
When Social Media Meets TV, Are the Results Worth Watching? 106
New York Times Halves Monthly Free Article Views To Ten 178
Foxconn "Glad That Mike Daisey's Lies Were Exposed" 332
Chinese Writers Sue Apple Over IP Violations 143
Rob Malda (CmdrTaco) Joins the Washington Post 232
How Publishers Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Zite's Aggregator 22
Advertisers Co-Opting The Lorax With Half-Truths About Conservation 265
Foxconn Hires Top Spinners To Defend Its Image 162
Journalist Arrested For Tweet Deported to Saudi Arabia 604
RIAA Chief Whines That SOPA Opponents Were "Unfair" 525
Pasadena Police Encrypt, Deny Access To Police Radio 487
Delayed Outrage Over A Censored Site; What's a Better Way To Spread News? 214
Facebook Orders Banks To Stop Leaking IPO Details 110
Google Begins Country-Specific Blog Censorship 250
New BBC Sports Website Makes Heavy Use of RDF 89
WikiLeaks To Ship Servers To Micronation of Sealand? 350
Romney Invokes Fair Use In Dispute With NBC Over Campaign Ad 242
Ask Slashdot: Does Europe Have Better Magazines Than the US? 562
US Plummets On World Press Freedom Ranking 427
Julian Assange To Host Talk Show 164
News Corp. Pays Out For Voicemail Hacking Victims 99
Y Combinator Wants To Kill Hollywood 424
Righthaven's Lawyers Target of State Bar Investigation 49