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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 — In The Social Network, Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) models Facebook on Harvard's legendary final clubs, private groups made up of some of the school's most privileged students. But the clubs are as secretive as they are exclusive …
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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.
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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.
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Hollywood Reporter:
CNN ousts Rick Sanchez over Jon Stewart rant — Anchor fired after giving controversial radio interview — CNN issued a statement Friday announcing that anchor Rick Sanchez has been let go from the network after giving a radio interview in which he insinuated Jon Stewart was a bigot and CNN was “run by Jews.”
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Stand UP!:
CNN's Rick Sanchez Calls Jon Stewart ‘Bigot’ — Cuban-American anchor Rick Sanchez came on Stand Up! with Pete Dominick today for a loose exchange on current events, media, and journalism. Throughout much of the interview, the discussion touched on race. To our surprise, at various points …
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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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Antonio Regalado / Technology Review:
Guerrilla Webfare — How unauthorized video producers are “brand-jacking” companies and forcing them to rethink the way they market. — Fernando Motolese, a creator of viral videos, recently approached French food giant Danone (known as Dannon in the United States) with an unusual proposition.
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