Mediagazer: AOL Permalancers Speak: ‘We Were Very Clearly Employees’ (Jeff Bercovici/Mixed Media)

2:40 AM ET, April 9, 2011

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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Down to the Wire Deal Keeps Government Open and Cablers Reporting — Around 10:30, the cable networks began reporting on a deal to keep the government running. The husband and wife CNN team of John King and Dana Bash broke the news during “Anderson Cooper 360.”

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Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
As Breaking News Fades, Ratings Fall at CNN

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BBC:

News of the World to admit phone hacking liability — Actress Sienna Miller is currently taking legal action against the News of the World — The owner of the News of the World is to admit liability in a number of cases brought against the paper for alleged phone hacking.

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Jacques Hebert / YouTube Blog:

YouTube is going LIVE — With over 2 billion views a day, it's easy to think about YouTube as a place to watch videos recorded in the past. But you've told us you want more - and that includes events taking place right now. In response, we've live streamed a number of popular concerts …

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David Folkenflik / NPR:

Bret Baier: The Next Generation Of Fox News Anchor … If the only thing you know about Bret Baier is that he's a Fox News anchor, the moment that sticks in your mind would be his interview a year ago with President Obama. — It took place in the Blue Room of the White House …

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Rob Pegoraro:

Departure … This entry was posted in Journalism, Occupational hazards, Work and tagged journalism, newspaper, newsroom, rob pegoraro, tech journalism, washington post by robpegoraro. Bookmark the permalink.

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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

AOL Permalancers Speak: ‘We Were Very Clearly Employees’ — How many of the freelancers AOL let go earlier this week were people who, legally, could potentially be construed as employees rather than mere contract workers? Because it's a question with some pretty interesting implications …

Discussion: Editors Weblog

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

California Watch finds a new consumer group for its “On Shaky Ground” investigation: kids — This morning, California Watch launched a major series on the seismic safety of California's public schools. Education reporter Corey Johnson and fellow investigators at the outfit spent 19 months reporting …

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Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review:

Page views offer only a small part of the picture in a newsroom compensation plan — By Robert Niles: How should the pay for online journalists be determined? — Pay for work is always a sensitive question. Pay, after all, quantifies work. And since most people pour more than a bit …

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Guardian:

Journalists on Twitter: how do Britain's news organisations tweet? Data & visualisation — Journalists are increasingly using Twitter. Alberto Nardelli of Tweetminster analyses what they tweet — • Get the data — What do Britain's journalists tweet about?

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The Independent:

Kelvin MacKenzie: 'I'd shut all the journalism colleges down' — There should only be one way into newspapers, reckons ex-Sun editor - and that's the old-school route — Print journalism is not a profession. It's a job, a knack, a talent. You don't need a diploma …

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Suzi Parker / Poynter:

Seeing journalism through the eyes of editor and columnist Lady Gaga — Lady Gaga has her paws in many projects - makeup endorsements, LGBT activism, a perfume deal and even a bracelet for sale that aids Japanese earthquake victims. — But now the pop phenomenon appears to be focused on journalism.

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Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Google News founder Krishna Bharat: For news consumers, “the whole experience is what counts” — Krishna Bharat founded Google News in 2002, partly in response to the US-centric news coverage served up by the American media after 9/11. Since then, the project has had its ups and downs …

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Max Fisher / The Atlantic Online:

Atlantic Reporter Captured in Libya — Clare Morgana Gillis and three other journalists have been taken into custody — Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi captured four journalists on Tuesday at around 1 p.m. local time a few miles outside of Brega, which is currently under government control.

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