The Media Stories for 2011

PR Firm Unwisely Tangles With Penny Arcade 419
Ask Slashdot: Geek-Centric Magazines Still Published On Paper? 125
What Do We Do When the Internet Mob Is Wrong? 361
Using WikiLeaks As a Tool In Investigative Journalism 39
YouTube Says UMG Had No 'Right' To Take Down Megaupload Video 220
Christopher Hitchens Dies At 62 910
At Universal's Request, YouTube Yanks News Podcast Over Music Snippet 287
Time's Person of the Year Is "The Protester" 543
Sony, Universal and Fox Caught Pirating Through BitTorrent 284
Bloggers Not Journalists, Federal Judge Rules 353
Syria Bans iPhone, Protest App 69
How Photoshopped Is That Picture? 226
WikiLeaks Launches New Platform, Privacy Study 96
Italian Court Rules Web Editors Not Responsible For Comments 72
GamePro Shutting Down After 22 Years 91
Wounded Copyright Troll Still Alive and Kicking 44
The Sports Footage You Won't See Today On TV 277
Netflix Expects To Be Unprofitable In 2012 323
The Future of Protest In Panopticon Nation 566
The Convoluted Life Cycle of a News Story 75
Syrian Protesters Roll Out New iPhone Apps 105
Tech Site Sues Ex-Employee, Claiming Rights To His Twitter Account 267
Bad Astronomer Phil Plait Responds 55
Mexican Cartel Beheads Another Blogger 536
Judge Rules Twitter Data Fair Game In Wikileaks Investigation 72
Failures Mark First National Test of Emergency Alert System 451
Technical Glitch Lets Reporters Eavesdrop On Obama, Sarkozy 411
Ask The Yes Men 53
US Marshals Ordered To Seize Righthaven Property 120
Copyright Troll Righthaven Ordered To Pay $119,000 75
Universal Uses DMCA To Get Bad Lip Reading Parody Taken Down 298
Tipping Point For Open Access CS Research? 116
High Court Rules In Favor of Top Gear Over Tesla Remarks 328
Paywalled NYT Now Has 300,000 Online Subscribers 179
Federated Media Lands WordPress.com Deal 35
Investors Campaign To Oust Murdochs From News Corp 150
Original Content Coming To YouTube? 119
District Attorney Critiques Gizmodo Emails In iPhone 4 Prototype Case 155
Vint Cerf: Media Tagging Can Be Disconcerting 96
Behind the Scenes: How Conflict Photographs Come To Be 178
Help Shape the Future of Slashdot 763
Italian Wikipedia May Shut Down Due To New Legislation 292
For Academic Publishing, Princeton Goes Open Access By Default 101
Righthaven Loses In Colorado; Abused the Copyright Act 43
Julian Assange's Unauthorized Autobiography 122
Atlas Takes Heat For Melting Glacier Claim 429
Ziff Davis Secretly Paying Sites To Track Users 53
Is This the End of Righthaven? 71
Google Acquires Zagat 114
The Register Hacked 192
Android Tricorder Killed By CBS 247
The Guardian and the Wikileaks Encryption Key 196
Mass. Court Says Constitution Protects Filming On-Duty Police 473
The Press Reacts To Steve Jobs' Departure — in 1985 207
Victory For Music Locker Services? 51
Linux Journal Goes — Surprise! — Digital 184
Is Free Software Ready For E-publishing? 221
Interviews: Ask Technologist Kevin Kelly About Everything 135
The Oslo Massacre and Violent Video Games: the Facts 343
James Murdoch's Defense Crumbles 272
Release of 33GiB of Scientific Publications 242
LulzSec Target the Sun After Phone Hacking Scandal 363
Belgian Newspapers Delisted On Google 385
Wired Releases Full Manning/Lamo Chat Logs 307
Voicemail Hack Scandal Leads To Closure of UK Tabloid 268
Defendant Says Righthaven Should Pay Legal Fees 83
News Corp. Subsidiary Under Fire For Hacking Dead Girl's Voicemail 251
NYT Update Breaks iPad App, Annoys Subscribers 140
Indie Film Premieres On BitTorrent Before Cinema 93
Hijacked Fox News Twitter Account Falsely Claims Obama Shot Dead 290
Does Creative Commons Work With Pseudonymity? 37
Chinese Censorship Gets Blasted By NTD TV 32
Black Market Database Access To Scholarly Journals 209
WIPO Talks May Portend Sweeping Broacast-Based Copyright 113
Give The Onion a Pulitzer Campaign Gaining Steam 110
US Pressing Its Crackdown Against Leaks 213
WSJ and Al-Jazeera Lure Whistleblowers 84
How Journalists Data-Mined the Wikileaks Docs 59
The Internet Is Killing Local News, Says the FCC 271
Apple Eases Rules For Subscription Apps 109
State of Alaska Prints Out Palin's E-Mails; Online Distribution 'Impractical' 516
The Ongoing Case of Rakofsky vs. Internet 157
Why the US Govt Should Be Happy About Wikileaks 232
DoD Paper Proposes National Security Through a Culture of Restraint (and Stigma) 310
NY Times Corrects 112-Year-Old Obituary 1
Google Abandons Plan To Archive World's Newspapers 60
Judge Puts Righthaven Cases In Colorado On Hold 36
Australian Government To Widen Spy Agency Powers, Again 105
Australian Journalist Arrested, Released After Detailing Facebook Flaws 200
Groklaw Torch Handed To Mark Webbink 47
Judge Issues Gag Order For Twitter 154
German Newscast Confuses Star Trek Terrorists With Navy SEALs 1
Facebook Admits Hiring PR Firm To Smear Google 172
Assange Handed Sydney Peace Medal 199
AP Files FOIA Request For Bin Laden Photos 518
Mainstream Media Looks At Anonymous 118
Ask Slashdot: Going Beyond Comment Threads? 393
Netflix CEO Hesitant To Fight Cable 366
Drudge Generates More News Traffic Than Social Media 216
Leaked Doc May Have Forced US To Speed Up Bin Laden Raid 632
The Internet's New Alternate Reality 869
First Ever Pulitzer For Non-Print Series 16
YouTube, Gaming and Social Networking Busting TV's Chops 118
Japanese Government Will Censor Fukushima "Illegal Information" 411
Ask Slashdot: Are You Streaming-Only For Home Entertainment? 697
NYTimes.com Reports 100k Subscribers 117
Judge Reveals Secret Righthaven Copyright Contract 130
The Nintendo 3DS, Headaches, and Bad Journalism 132
RIAA/MPAA: the Greatest Threat To Tech Innovation 278
NYT Paywall Cost $40 Million: How? 305
Engineering Election Debates With Subtle Cues 105
Huffington Post Fights Back Against NY Times Paywall 57
Newspaper Plagiarizes Blog, Taunts Real Author 301
New York Times Paywall Goes Live, Loopholes Abound 127
NY Times Asks Twitter To Shut Down Retweeting Feed 137
Why Paywalls Are Good, But NYT's Is Flawed 256
Broadcasters Accuse Telecom Companies of Hoarding Spectrum 102
Righthaven Copyright Lawsuit Backfires 88
The 'Adventure' In Self-Publishing an IT Book 156
NYTimes Unveils Online Subscription Plan 194
Blogger Fined $60K For Telling the Truth 433
Turkey Bans Google's Blogger Over Soccer Piracy 56
Posting AC - a Thing of the Past? 390
WikiLeaks, Internet Nominees For Nobel Peace Prize 202
US Justice Department Dug Up Reporter's Phone, Bank Records 217
Zimbabwe Professor Arrested and Tortured For Watching Online News Videos 224
Study Calls Craigslist 'a Cesspool of Crime' 316
Voice of America Site Forced Offline By 'Iranian Cyber Army' 93
Italian Police Seize Blog Over 'Kill Berlusconi' Satire 214
DailyMotion Now Streaming Live News 48
Ebooks Finally Included On the NYT BestSeller List 32
OpenLeaks Founder 'Crippled' WikiLeaks 278
Thrifty, Anonymous Benefactor Backs Up BBC Websites Before They Go Dark 159
Fox News Brings Video Game Violence Debate To a New Low 421
AOL To Buy Huffington Post 160
News Corp's The Daily Is Doomed 246
Egyptians Turn To Tor To Organize Dissent Online 152
The Hidden Reality Draws Ire From Physicists 387
China Blocks 'Egypt' On Twitter-Like Site 140
Russian Media Link Moscow Bombing With Modern Warfare 2 Scene 91
Openleaks Goes Live 158
NYTimes On Dealings With Assange 221
BBC To Dispose of Douglas Adams Website 189
Betelgeuse To Blow Up Soon — Or Not 312
No Playboy App For iPad, After All 140
New Red Dwarf Series Threatened By the Twitter Era 228
Sony, Universal Hope To Beat Piracy With 'Instant Pop' 369
Comcast-NBC Merger Approved By FCC 268
Happy 10th Birthday To Wikipedia 137
Some WikiLeaks Contributions To Public Discourse 299
The Guardian's Complicated Relationship With Julian Assange 237
Reverse Engineering Doctor Who Into Color 171
Saudi Arabia Requiring License For Online Media 175
Why Digital Newsstands Stink 184
Hungarian Officials Can Now Censor the Media 185