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9:50 AM ET, March 14, 2010

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Marc Lacey / New York Times:
Fearing Drug Cartels, Reporters in Mexico Retreat  —  REYNOSA, Mexico — The big philosophical question in this gritty border town does not concern trees falling in the forest but bodies falling on the concrete: Does a shootout actually happen if the newspapers print nothing about it …
Jennifer Mendelsohn / New York Times:
Honey, Don't Bother Mommy.  I'm Too Busy With My Blog and Building My Brand.  —  ON a brisk Saturday morning this month, a dedicated crew of about 90 women, most in their 30s or thereabouts, arrived at a waterfront hotel here, prepared for a daylong conference that offered to school …
Randeep Ramesh / Guardian:
Google news tax could boost local papers, report says  —  Commission of inquiry calls for levies to promote new media, warning that too few interests control too many outlets  —  Google and other websites that carry news they do not produce should be taxed and the money generated used to prop …
Natasha Vargas-Cooper / The Awl:
The Night Lady Gaga Blew Up the Internet with ‘Telephone’  —  Natasha: Can I ask you something?  —  Choire: Yes!  —  Natasha: Do you ‘get it’?  —  Natasha: Like Gaga overall.  —  Choire: I *largely* get it.  I mean, obviously I groove on the, I guess, excitement level?
Jon / CyberJournalist.net:
News is a social experience  —  The latest Pew Internet & American Life Project report, “Understanding the Participatory News Consumer,” examines how Americans are increasingly using their social networks and social networking technology to filter, assess, and react to news.  —  The report says:
Michael Shaw / BAGnewsNotes:
Young National Guardsmen Inside their Armor  —  This is just one more photo that makes me wonder if anyone in Afghanistan ever checks out the Western newswires — especially the way the soldier lying on the floor of the mine-resistant vehicle, the photo cropped just below his crotch …
Drew Grant / Mediaite:
Fake News Reports Of Russian Invasion Send Georgians Panicking  —  In a War Of The Worlds-esque scenario (the Orson Welles adaptation, not the movie), residents of Georgia were thrown into a state of shock and panic when Imedi TV - a pro-government station - telecast an “imitation of events” …
Discussion: Reuters and The Spy Report
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Video: Texas Tribune's Evan Smith: ‘I Was A Hater, Then I Became A Zealot’  —  One of the side benefits of coming to Austin for South By Southwest Interactive: spending some time at the Texas Tribune, the non-profit news site launched last November to cover statewide politics, public policy and government.
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Apple's iPad Will Read Books Out Loud, Support Free E-Books  —  When it began taking pre-orders for the iPad this morning, Apple also published some new details about how the tablet device will function as an e-book reader.  —  It turns out the iPad will read books out loud to you with audio dictation …
Globe and Mail:
Torstar among final bidders for CanWest papers  —  Publisher, believed to be backed by Fairfax, will compete with other industry heavyweights in auction to be completed by April 30  — Lindsay Lohan and the E*Trade baby - Who would turn down a promotion?  - What's an MER?
Ernst Poulsen / Online:
Danish Magazine Publishes Collaboratively Using Google Wave  —  One of the big questions in online journalism is how to engage users.  A small Danish experiment on Google Wave may provide some hints.  —  In the last 10 years, we have learned that subtle changes in format on the Web …
 
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