Mediagazer: Romenesko Leaves Poynter After Conflict Over Quotes (Jeremy W. Peters/New York Times)

11:25 AM ET, November 11, 2011

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Julie Moos / Poynter:

Romenesko resigns after 12 years at Poynter — After twelve years of blogging at Poynter, Jim Romenesko has submitted his resignation and I have accepted it. Jim has decided he's ready for a fresh start now — seven weeks before he was scheduled to become a part-time employee and start his own blog.

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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

Romenesko Leaves Poynter After Conflict Over Quotes — Sometimes you can follow rules right out the window. — That is the situation the Poynter Institute — an organization that teaches journalistic ethics and practices — finds itself in after scolding its most famous writer, Jim Romenesko …

Discussion: Free Press and @romenesko

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

Media blogger Jim Romenesko resigns from Poynter — A blogger who pioneered the practice of collecting news about journalism and the media industry resigned from his job Thursday after his editor publicly questioned his own journalism standards — in particular, whether he was giving proper attribution …

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Erik Wemple:

Jim Romenesko's resignation, and a scooped reporter — Good on Erika Fry. — An assistant editor at Columbia Journalism Review (CJR), Fry had kept an eye on journalism-industry aggregation site Poynter.org. She noticed some untoward things. And being an assistant editor at CJR, Fry set out to produce a story on the matter.

Choire Sicha / The Awl:

The Intolerable Evolution of Poynter's “Romenesko+” — The “Romenesko” blog (launched in 1999!) was a one-man shop, under the corporate parentage of the Poynter Institute, until fairly recently. It was quite successfully run by its founder, Jim Romenesko, though you could tell every once …

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Julie Moos / Poynter:

Questions over Romenesko's attributions spur changes in writing, editing — Poynter.org works hard to meet the highest standards of journalism excellence, and I learned late Wednesday that we have not consistently met those standards. — A centerpiece of our editorial work has been the Romenesko blog …

Erik Wemple:

Jim Romenesko and the case of the missing quote marks — Jim Romenesko will never be anything other than a hero of Web journalism to me. For what seems like the entire history of the form, Romenesko has been culling the work of media reporters and posting them to the Poynter.org site, complete with often-insightful summations.

Felix Salmon:

Holding aggregators to journalistic standards — Now I've got my rant off my chest, let me try to add a bigger-picture point to the noise surrounding Romeneskogate. The unanimous reaction to Julie Moos's ridiculous piece has held little back: Hamilton Nolan called it “perhaps …

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@romenesko: Poynter has accepted my resignation. Thanks to all for the incredible support today. http://t.co/rUevIN7S

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

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Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

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Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

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Wall Street Journal:

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Jeff Roberts / paidContent:

Can A Twitter Account Be A Company Trade Secret? — There has been an ongoing tug-of-war between journalists and publishers over who gets to keep digital possessions after a break-up. The debate took a new twist this week after a court issued a ruling in the case of a tech reporter who walked …

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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

Regional press giants urged to give local news back — One of the UK's most experienced regional press journalists has urged the big four UK regional press publishers to return their hundreds of newspaper titles to local ownership. — Former editor of the Lincolnshire Echo …

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Julia Boorstin / Media Money with Julia Boorstin:

Disney's Bob Iger Talks Earnings, Growth, Digital Deals — Just moments after Disney reported better-than expected results I sat down with CEO Bob Iger to hear his outlook. — Strength at ESPN and stronger advertising sent the Media Networks revenue higher than expected …

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Kevin Poulsen / Threat Level:

Judge Rules Feds Can Have WikiLeaks Associates' Twitter Data — Jacob Appelbaum speaks on behalf of WikiLeaks at The Next Hope conference in New York City in July 2010. (Courtesy Cosmiclint/Flickr) — The Justice Department is entitled to records of the Twitter accounts used by three current …

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James Robinson / Guardian:

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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
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Eduardo J. Morales / Abandoned Couches:

The secretive culture at Penn State is nothing new — I've been going back and forth in my mind whether to write this or not, there's already so much out there. But the mess happening in State College this week hits me close to home, as 16 years ago I worked as the lead Penn State football writer …