AOL wants to hire a new advertising agency to promote consumers perceptions of its brand and remind them "why people should care about AOL again". AdAge writes that AOL is hoping to select an agency at the beginning of next month.

Poynter reports that Steve Buttry, director of community engagement at the Journal Register Company and Matt DeRienzo, group editor of the JRC's Connecticut papers, have set a quiz for staff to check that they properly understand the ethics of linking and attribution. Employees who got any of the answers wrong will have to take part in a training session about plagiarism.

Broadcasting & Cable writes that, for the first time, NBC intends to launch a documentary series on an iPad app . The series, Hidden Planet, will at first be made exclusively available on the app, and will then be released on RockCenterNBC.com a week later.

GigaOm argues that giving away content on the web for free was not news organisations' version of original sin.

French journalists were detained by military in Jos, Nigeria, and then kicked out of the state, the Associated Press reported.

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