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7:05 PM ET, June 22, 2011

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Jose Antonio Vargas / New York Times:
My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant  —  One August morning nearly two decades ago, my mother woke me and put me in a cab.  She handed me a jacket.  “Baka malamig doon” were among the few words she said.  ("It might be cold there.")  When I arrived at the Philippines' Ninoy Aquino International Airport …
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Chris Suellentrop / The 6th Floor:
My (Legal) Editor's Dream  —  Last week, at 11:54 p.m. on Monday night, June 13, an e-mail from Jose Antonio Vargas landed in my inbox.  “Hi Chris,” Jose wrote.  “Hope you are well.  Any chance we can chat on the phone tomorrow?  It's rather urgent and personal — and a possible story for you.”
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Washington Post Passed On Journalist's ‘Undocumented Immigrant’ Revelation  —  NEW YORK âÂ"- Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas shocked the media world Wednesday by revealing that heâs an undocumented immigrant in an upcoming New York Times magazine story splashed across the paperâs homepage.
Discussion: Mediaite and Future of Journalism
Dan Harris / ABCNEWS:
Journalist Jose Antonio Vargas Comes Out as Illegal Immigrant to Fight for DREAM Act  —  For the past decade, Jose Antonio Vargas has pursued success in journalism.  In addition to winning a Pulitzer Prize with the Washington Post for his coverage of the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings …
Discussion: Adweek, FishbowlNY and mediabistro.com
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Knight News Challenge 2011: Sixteen winners, from mapping to data viz, from water shortages to interactive documentaries  —  On Sept. 28, 2006, when the Knight Foundation launched the Knight News Challenge — its five-year attempt to harness the best ideas in journalism innovation through an annual contest …
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Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:
New commitment, new boss, new name: Knight to invest nearly $4m in MIT's Center for Civic Media  —  The Knight Foundation today will announce a major commitment to MIT's Center for Future Civic Media: a three-year, $3.76 million investment, a new boss, and a newly refined mission.
Jim Romenesko / Poynter:
Knight News Challenge winners announced
Anthony DeRosa:
An interview with New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller  —  Bill Keller has spent the last eight years as executive editor of the New York Times.  He recently announced he will step down from his post in September and hand it over to Jill Abramson, who will become the first female executive editor in the history of the paper.
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Salon Chief Executive Steps Down  —  Richard Gingras, a longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur who has been chief executive of the Salon Media Group for the last two years, is stepping down.  —  Mr. Gingras has a long history with the company, going back to its founding when he helped gather the seed money to start Salon.com in 1995.
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David Weir / 7x7.com:
Salon CEO Gingras Resigns to Become Global Head of News Products at Google
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
LinkedIn Connects With Fortune's Dan Roth  —  LinkedIn wants to become more than a networking site for professionals: It has ambitions to become a sort of media company, too.  —  Now it's bringing in someone to help them pull that off.  The service has hired Time Inc.'s Dan Roth, Fortune magazine's digital editor.
Adweek:
New York Post to Raise Newsstand Price  —  The New York Post is raising its newsstand price to 75 cents beginning Monday, according to sources at the newspaper.  —  Editor-in-chief Col Allan did not respond to calls about the hike.  Memos sent to reporters on Tuesday demanded better stories …
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Fox renews Hulu licensing pact  —  Net will increase the volume of ads in its Hulu telecasts  —  EXCLUSIVE: Hulu has reached an agreement with News Corp. to keep TV programming from Fox Broadcasting Co. on the streaming service, according to sources.  —  While a formal pact has yet to be signed …
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Dawn Chmielewski / Company Town:
Yahoo approaches Hulu about possible acquisition [Updated]
David Carr / Media Decoder:
Brian Lam Leaves Gizmodo  —  Brian Lam, editor of Gizmodo, is leaving Gawker's popular gadget and technology blog.  —  Mr. Lam, a journo-technologist with the soul of an artist — his ocean-centric sideline site is called The Scuttlefish - is not precisely sure what he is going to do next …
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
LinkedIn study: Men in newspaper, broadcast industries more connected than women  —  A new LinkedIn study released today concludes that men in the U.S. broadcast and newspaper industries are more connected than women when it comes to networking online.  —  Drawing on anecdotal evidence …
Nicholas White / MediaShift:
The Necessity of Data Journalism in the New Digital Community  —  This is the second post in a series from Nicholas White, the co-founder and CEO of The Daily Dot.  —  It used to be, to be a good reporter, all you had to do was get drunk with the right people.
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Gannett layoffs are a leading indicator of a permanently shrinking newspaper business  —  The 700 layoffs Gannett announced at its community newspapers Tuesday can rightly be read as a vote of no confidence in the future of print by America's largest newspaper company.
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Guardian's move to ‘digital-first’ will involve job cuts, says Alan Rusbridger  —  Paper's editor-in-chief confirms it will have to reduce headcount as it aims to save £25m before 2016  —  The Guardian will make “significant” job cuts over the next two years in the transition to a …
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