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4:25 PM ET, October 3, 2010

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Guardian:
How to be a data journalist  —  Data journalism trainer and writer Paul Bradshaw explains how to get started in data journalism, from getting to the data to visualising it  —  • Guardian data editor Simon Rogers explains how our data journalism operation works  —  Data journalism is huge.
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb
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Alex Williams / ReadWriteWeb:
5 Tools for Online Journalism, Exploration and Visualization  —  In our last post on data journalism, we ran across a number of tools that would be helpful for anyone who is interested in how to make sense of data.  —  The tools represent a renaissance in how we make sense of our information culture.
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
EXCLUSIVE: Jon Stewart mocks Rick Sanchez  —  Letterman jokes about cleaning out fired anchor's office  —  NEW YORK - Jon Stewart and David Letterman joked about the Rick Sanchez controversy here Saturday evening as host of Comedy Central's “Night Of Too Many Stars.”
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Jim Efstathiou Jr / Bloomberg:
New York Times to Repay Carlos Slim's $250 Million Loan Three Years Early  —  New York Times Co., publisher of the namesake newspaper, plans to pay back a $250 million loan from Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim three years ahead of schedule.  —  The company intends to repay the loan …
Discussion: Felix Salmon and Runnin' Scared
Connie Schultz / Poynter Online:
Why Connie Schultz Won't Give up on the Fight for Good Journalism  —  Shortly before I started writing this essay, I listened to a voice message from a reader named Ellen who wanted me to know about the tip jar at her niece's place of employment.  —  “She works the fish fry on Friday's,” she told me.
Jose Antonio Vargas / The Huffington Post:
The Social Disconnect — How Hollywood Misread Facebook  —  Everything that's wrong about The Social Network is summed up by its title.  —  The movie, opening nationwide today, is not interested in the concept of social networking or the actual usage of Facebook.
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Adam Markovitz / PopWatch:
‘Social Network’: Natalie Portman was Aaron Sorkin's secret weapon
Discussion: The Marquee Blog
Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
‘Newspaper companies that will survive will not consider themselves newspaper companies’  —  Dallas Morning News publisher's letter to staff on the paper's 125th anniversary  —  As we celebrate our 125th anniversary, I wanted to congratulate and thank each and every one of you for being a part …
Discussion: Dallas Morning News
Andrew Breitbart / Big Journalism:
O'Keefe Owes His Supporters an Explanation  —  I proudly stood behind James O'Keefe on his groundbreaking ACORN investigation.  I also defended him when the media, including CNN — during a previous regime, “the Rick Sanchez era” - falsely reported the Sen. Mary Landrieu story as a “wiretapping” plot gone wrong.
Discussion: Mediaite
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Media Execs Visit Obama White House  —  White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel announced he would be leaving the Obama administration to run for Mayor of Chicago last week.  According to White House visitor logs released Friday, media personalities and executives were regulars on the guest list to meet with Emanuel.
Nick Davies / Guardian:
Coulson ‘listened to hacked messages’  —  Anonymous source tells Channel Four David Cameron's media adviser would ask for recordings to be played for him at News of the World  —  The prime minister's media adviser, Andy Coulson, personally listened to the intercepted voicemail messages …
Nieman Foundation News:
Nieman Curator Bob Giles to Retire  —  Cambridge, Mass. - Bob Giles, curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard for the past decade, will retire at the end of the academic year in June 2011.  —  “It is not easy to leave a great institution and the wonderful people who make it so …
Discussion: Romenesko and Media Nation
Kelly McEvers / NPR:
In Iraq, Getting The Story Gets Tougher For Reporters … Baghdad is undergoing a kind of face-lift these days as officials spend hundreds of millions of dollars in preparation to host an Arab League summit next year.  —  Most of the hotels that are being gutted and redone …
 
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