Mediagazer: Associated Press Won't Cover Fox News GOP Debate (Michael Calderone/The Huffington Post)

11:40 PM ET, May 4, 2011

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Nat Ives / AdAge:

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Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:

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Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism:

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Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

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David Kaplan / paidContent:

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Henry Jenkins / Confessions of an Aca/Fan:

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Associated Press Won't Cover Fox News GOP Debate — The Associated Press will not be covering Thursdayâs Republican presidential debate âbecause of restrictions placed on media access,â according to an advisory the wire service sent out Wednesday night.

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David Kaplan / paidContent:
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Andy Boyle:

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Cory Bergman / Lost Remote:

Meet the first network TV journalist on Twitter — His name is @newmediajim. Or to be precise, Jim Long, a photojournalist for NBC News who joined Twitter on October 24, 2006. Today, he has over 42,000 followers — more than many on-air correspondents. — “I would wager that I was the …

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Howcast Co-Founder Jumps to Daily Beast — Daniel Blackman, a Google vet who co-founded how-to video startup Howcast four years ago, has left the company and is now chief digital officer at Newsweek/Daily Beast Co., the print/Web mashup now run by Tina Brown.

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