Media News - Friday, August 03, 2012
Northcliffe Media abandons efforts to unmask spoof Twitter account
Regional newspaper group Northcliffe Media has abandoned its bid to unmask a spoof Twitter account of its chief executive. Northcliffe withdrew its attempt to force Twitter to reveal the identity of the person behind Steve Dorkland, a parody account of its chief executive Steve Auckland, on Thursday night after a legal fight in the US. Northcliffe, which is owned by Daily Mail & General Trust, had previously said it was determined to unmask the user and stop the messages it claimed brought the company's image into disrepute. The company claimed in its legal filing that Steve Dorkland published information apparently obtained from surveillance of Northcliffe employees, and publicly disseminated highly sensitive information about employees' personal lives. (The Guardian)
Subscribe
Join our Media News mailinglist with over 12.000 subscribers.
Search archive
The Media News archive contains over 15.000 items so it is advised to narrow your search.
Time Machine
| May 2013 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
| 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | |
Syndicate
Popular articles
- WikiLeaks announces partnership with Brazilian investigative journalism center
- Acclaimed photo was faked
- Euronews launches Arabic feed
- Iran: Leading women’s magazine forced to close
- US: Nonprofit website plans watchdog journalism for Orange County
- New website reaches out to EU Neighbourhood Journalists
- Internet censorship plagues journalists at Olympics
- Sweden: Tax on press advertising to be abolished
- MySpace opens doors to developers MySpace webpage
- Startup lets public test conversational Web search