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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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New York Times and FishbowlDC
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Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
As Breaking News Fades, Ratings Fall at CNN
As Breaking News Fades, Ratings Fall at CNN
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Mediaite, The Atlantic Wire, The Huffington Post, Poynter, TVNewser, TVWeek.com and Inside Cable News
MediaShift Idea Lab:
Why Are Newsrooms Resistant to Creating Newsgames? — This past weekend a group of 25 game developers, academics and journalists gathered at the University of Minnesota's Journalism Center to examine the state of newsgames. While it can be a slippery term to define, generally speaking newsgames covers …
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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New York Times, The Huffington Post, Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! News, The Atlantic Wire, Adweek, The Wire, New York Magazine and Gawker
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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The Wire, The Atlantic Wire, Poynter, TVNewser, Mediaite and Inside Cable News
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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Mashable!, SocialTimes.com, Techland, Digits, SAI, GigaOM, Technologizer, MacStories, Podcasting News, VentureBeat, CNET News, Lost Remote, ReadWriteWeb, Epicenter, TechCrunch, WebProNews and Gizmodo, more at Techmeme »
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 …
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Editors Weblog
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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Poynter, On Media's Blog and FishbowlDC
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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Media Myth Alert, Editors Weblog, FishbowlNY, Gothamist and New York Observer
Rob Walker / New York Times:
On ‘Radiolab,’ the Sound of Science — Jad Abumrad was talking about “tension” —the tension between the certainty of science and mysteries that inspire wonder; between authenticity and artifice; between a sound that feels carefully constructed and one that feels anarchic and alive.
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The 6th Floor
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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mediabistro.com and 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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California Watch and CIR: All New Content
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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