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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Post responds to ex-reporter Vargas's revelation that he's an illegal immigrant — For almost 14 years, Jose Antonio Vargas carried a secret. A journalist skilled in getting information from others, Vargas withheld some important news from his American employers: He is an undocumented immigrant.
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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
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Washington Post Passed On Journalist's ‘Undocumented Immigrant’ Revelation
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The Atlantic Wire, Big Journalism, FishbowlNY, Mother Jones, Future of Journalism, Washington Post, mediabistro.com and ABCNEWS
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
When big data meets journalism — The Knight Foundation, a non-profit entity that is one of the biggest funders of media-related projects in the United States — including the new MIT Center for Civic Media, which we wrote about earlier — announced the winners of its annual $4.7-million News Challenge on Wednesday.
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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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Poynter, CyberJournalist.net, ...My heart's in Accra and MediaShift Idea Lab
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The News Challenge-winning PANDA Project aims to make research easier in the newsroom — In an ideal world, when news breaks, reporters can fall back on their encyclopedic knowledge of local stories, events, and people to put the news in context. And failing that, they can turn to colleague who've …
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Future of Journalism
Jim Romenesko / Poynter:
Knight News Challenge winners announced
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Knight Foundation and The Official Google Blog
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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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
What Are Hulu's Owners Really Selling? — Yes, Hulu is for sale. The video site hired bankers from Morgan Stanley and Guggenheim Partners last week, people familiar with the company tell me. They've just started asking potential buyers if they'd like to sign an NDA and take a look-see.
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Los Angeles Times, Company Town and NetNewsCheck Latest, more at Techmeme »
Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
Is someone leaking Hulu news to jack up sales price?
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Mixed Media, SocialTimes.com, Home Media Magazine and CNET News.com
Paul Sonne / Wall Street Journal:
J.K. Rowling Conjures Up Potter E-Books — LONDON—After years of refusing to release her boy-wizard books in electronic format, Harry Potter mastermind J.K. Rowling is finally taking the digital plunge, launching an online store that will sell Harry Potter e-books directly to consumers …
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The Atlantic Wire, ArtsBeat and MyFox Philadelphia
Tim Carmody / Nieman Journalism Lab:
I happen to have that research right here, Mr. Keller: The day sociologist Zeynep Tufekci dropped a bundle of knowledge on the New York Times's Bill Keller (with help from Twitter and a whole lot of scholarship) — Last month, The New York Times' outgoing executive editor Bill Keller trolled all of Twitter …
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David Weir / 7x7.com:
Salon CEO Gingras Resigns to Become Global Head of News Products at Google — The CEO of Salon.com, Richard Gingras, held an emotional “all-hands” meeting with his staff today to tell them he is resigning, effective July 8th, to become global head of news products for Google.
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Betabeat, paidContent, Beyond Search, The Business Insider and FT Tech Hub
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Steve Smith / MinOnline:
Top Magazine Money Makers in the iPad App Store — Maybe it is the new subscription model in the App Store? Perhaps it is just Apple making nice with publishers after seeming to have dissed the media world for so long. But whatever the motives or the reasons, even a cursory glance …
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eMedia Vitals
Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer:
Village Voice Union Unanimously Authorizes Strike Vote — In a meeting at Cooper Union last night, Village Voice employees unanimously voted to give their union negotiating committee the right to call for a strike vote during contract negotiations, which reconvene today after a break.
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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Regret the Error, The Caucus, B&C and Most Recent Home Page Posts …
Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:
Phone hacking: police make fourth arrest — A woman was arrested this morning by officers investigating the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World. — The 39-year-old woman, who has not been named by police, was arrested by officers from the Met's Operation Weeting on suspicion …
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Guardian and Journalism.co.uk
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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eMedia Vitals, The LinkedIn Blog, TechCrunch, The Atlantic Wire and Globe and Mail
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