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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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Mother Jones, The Not-So Private Parts, Media Matters for America, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, The Atlantic Wire, Big News Network.com, msnbc.com, Runnin' Scared, The Wire, Guardian, TVNewser, Bottom-up, @jackshafer, Towleroad News #gay, This Just In, Swampland, New York Magazine, Soup, Washington Post, Gothamist, The Rumpus.net and Fox Nation
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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.”
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Poynter, The Huffington Post, The Atlantic Wire and City Desk
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.
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Mediaite, Future of Journalism and Mother Jones
Dan Harris / ABCNEWS:
Journalist Jose Antonio Vargas Comes Out as Illegal Immigrant to Fight for DREAM Act
Journalist Jose Antonio Vargas Comes Out as Illegal Immigrant to Fight for DREAM Act
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Adweek, FishbowlNY, The Atlantic Wire and mediabistro.com
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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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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.
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Poynter, Knight Foundation, ...My heart's in Accra, Global Voices, GigaOM and Joho the Blog
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Jim Romenesko / Poynter:
Knight News Challenge winners announced
Knight News Challenge winners announced
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Knight Foundation and The Official Google Blog
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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Wall Street Journal, paidContent, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Future of Journalism and FishbowlNY
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David Weir / 7x7.com:
Salon CEO Gingras Resigns to Become Global Head of News Products at Google
Salon CEO Gingras Resigns to Become Global Head of News Products at Google
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paidContent and The Business Insider, more at Techmeme »
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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.
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Nieman Journalism Lab, The Wire, Poynter, Future of Journalism, Mediaite, On The Network, The Atlantic Wire and FishbowlNY
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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 …
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Gizmodo, @caro, @wendymac, @maryjofoley, @jesusdiaz, @kenfisher, @laughingsquid, The Next Web and The Wire, more at Techmeme »
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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.
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Mixed Media, The LinkedIn Blog and Fast Company
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 …
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ReveNews, New York Magazine, FishbowlNY, The New York Observer, Gothamist and Runnin' Scared
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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Company Town, CNET News.com, The Business Insider and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
Matt Bai / The 6th Floor:
A Queasy Correction — My brother-in-law always reminds me of the advice he got from an uncle, who was a media skeptic in the age before it was cool to be a media skeptic. “Remember, son,” the old man would say, “paper will lie down and let you write whatever you want on it.”
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B&C, Most Recent Home Page Posts …, msnbc.com, Gothamist and New York Times
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 …
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The LinkedIn Blog, The Atlantic Wire, TechCrunch and Globe and Mail, more at Techmeme »
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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The Business Insider and bbc.co.uk
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.
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Guardian, rbr.com, The News About The News, The Latest Word, paidContent, Gannett Blog and FishbowlNY
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Is someone leaking Hulu news to jack up sales price? — Hulu has hired investment banks to oversee a sale of the streaming-video service, according to the Los Angeles Times. — The news comes a day after someone leaked word that Hulu had received a buyout offer.
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Home Media Magazine, ReadWriteWeb, MediaPost and Betabeat
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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.