Mediagazer: Why Laying Off Ag Reporter Philip Brasher is Bad for Food (Pcrossfield/Civil Eats)

From @-reply triage to journalistic meme-tracking: How NPR may scale Andy Carvin's Twitter curation — On a busy day, Andy Carvin gets 2,000 Twitter @-replies. Which, wow. We all experience, in some way or another, information overload; Carvin experiences it on a whole different level.

Discussion: ...My heart's in Accra, Soup and Knight Foundation

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Front pages in NY feature historic passage of same-sex marriage law — Late Friday night, the New York State Senate passed by 33 to 29 a law that gives same-sex partners the right to marry. Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the law almost 90 minutes later, at 11:55 p.m. Thirty days from its passage …

Discussion: New York Times, FiveThirtyEight, Gothamist, Soup and The New Yorker Blog

Pcrossfield / Civil Eats:

Why Laying Off Ag Reporter Philip Brasher is Bad for Food — Well-known DC-based agriculture reporter Philip Brasher was just let go by the Des Moines Register. His reporting also often appeared in USA Today; both papers are owned by the parent company Gannett.

Discussion: Gannett Blog and The Rural Blog

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

“Adding context to content”: Swift River gets Knight funding to tackle the problem of real-time verification — One of the biggest challenges news organizations face is the real-time aspect of newsgathering: the massive problem that is making sense of the torrent of information that floods in when breaking-news events take place.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Charlie Beckett:

WikiLeaks As Journalism — Journalist? — This is another small clip from an early draft of a book I am writing about the significance of WikiLeaks. To be published by Polity in the autumn: — In this early phase we see how WikiLeaks is constantly evolving away from its pure ‘Wiki’ format …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Bonnier Revs Up Magazine Licensing Efforts — Bonnier Corp., publisher of Popular Science and Parenting, has been buying up print in recent years, absorbing Time Inc.'s enthusiast magazines and smaller acquisitions like Working Mother Media and then-Hachette Filipacchi Media's hobby titles.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

Brian Kennedy Returns to ABC as Executive Director of Newsgathering Operations — CBS News executive Brian Kennedy is returning to ABC News as executive director of newsgathering operations. Kennedy had been executive director of digital newsgathering for CBS News.

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, TVSpy and MediaPost

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Fair use isn't much good if you can't afford it — All around us, the web is enabling an explosion of “remix culture,” in which bits and pieces of text, images and video are cut and spliced to create new forms of art. Whatever you think of the specific outcomes of this process …

Discussion: Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog, The Rumpus.net, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Betabeat, PlagiarismToday, Techdirt, SAY Media and Free Press, Thanks:mathewi

Patrick B. Pexton / Washington Post:

Why did The Post deport Jose Antonio Vargas's story? — Journalists are not public officeholders, nor do they manage public funds. But they do hold, precariously, a public trust. And at the foundation of that trust is the pledge to tell the truth, or at least to get as close to it as they can.

Discussion: Poynter and On Media's Blog

Joe Flint / Company Town:

Comcast has to sit on its hands while Hulu drama plays out — Imagine owning a big chunk of a company and having no say in its operations or future. — That's the position Comcast Corp. finds itself in with regard to Hulu, the online video site that consists primarily of content from its owners who …

Discussion: MediaPost

MediaShift Idea Lab:

How Newsrooms Can Win Back Their Reputations — The journalism industry ships lemons every day. Our newsrooms have a massive quality control problem. According to the best counts we have, more than half of stories contain mistakes — and only 3 percent of those errors are ever fixed.

Discussion: Future of Journalism, Kirk LaPointe's … and Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard

Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:

Tea Partiers Create Their Own TV Show and Production Company (Exclusive) … Those who belong to the conservative movement known as the Tea Party are acutely aware of the power of popular culture, so they have been cautiously delving into the creation of entertainment that promotes their values.

Discussion: Future of Journalism, Mediaite, Company Town and TVWeek.com