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Nancy Phillips / Philly.com:
Four say Philly Daily News writer Bill Conlin sexually abused them as children — Three women and a man say they were molested as children by Bill Conlin, a Hall of Fame baseball writer and Philadelphia Daily News columnist. — In vivid accounts, the four say Conlin groped and fondled them …
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A.J. Daulerio / Deadspin:
Legendary Columnist Bill Conlin Resigns Over Forthcoming Philly Inquirer Bombshell [UPDATE] — The Philadelphia Inquirer's top investigative reporter, Nancy Phillips, has written a story containing what we're told are allegations of child molestation against sportswriter Bill Conlin, a longtime columnist at the rival Daily News.
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CBS Philly, New York Times, @dhm, The Huffington Post, Crossing Broad, Bleacher Report and Poynter
Larry Platt / Philly.com:
How do we report about our own? — I have been a journalist for more than a quarter century, and I have never had a professional experience that was sadder - or more shocking - than reading the allegations leveled against Bill Conlin today. — As detailed by the Inquirer's Nancy Phillips …
Guardian:
Leveson inquiry: James Hipwell gives evidence - live — • Ex-Mirror journalist witnessed Morgan's phone being hacked — • Hipwell says hacking ‘was bog standard journalistic tool’ — • He says voicemails were deleted to stop Sun getting stories
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Press Gazette and Digital Spy
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BBC:
Phone hacking ‘bog-standard tool’ says former Mirror journalist
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@tom_watson, @joelmgunter and @patrickfoster2
Richard Adams / Guardian:
What does CNN do with Piers Morgan now? | Richard Adams
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Telegraph and Press Gazette
Kevin Roderick / LA Observed:
Times ‘terminates’ blogging pressman Ed Padgett — Ed Padgett, a Los Angeles Times employee for 39 years, has been in trouble with the bosses before for his blog posts. This time, he says today, Human Resources called from out of nowhere to tell him he had been fired.
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David Dishneau / Associated Press:
US close to resting case against Manning — FORT MEADE, Maryland (AP) — The U.S. government neared the end of its case Tuesday against the Army intelligence analyst blamed for the biggest leak of national secrets in American history. — The prosecution was expected to call its final six witnesses …
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Future of Journalism, ABCNEWS and Reporter's Committee …
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Guardian:
Bradley Manning hearing - Tuesday 20 December 2011 as it happened live updates — • Read a summary of the day's main events — • Fifth day of pre-trial military hearing in Maryland — • Blogger Adrian Lamo called by prosecution — • Prosecutors say evidence links Manning to Julian Assange
Brian Beutler / TPM:
Ryan's Plan Still Ends Medicare Even If Politifact Rates That As A Lie — Ryan's Plan Still Ends Medicare Even If PolitiFact Rates That As A Lie — Here's a long, sad story about how Democrats' basically true claim that House Republicans voted to end Medicare ended up “winning” …
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New York Magazine, Hot Air, Gawker, Big Journalism, Paul Krugman, Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Washington Wire, Forbes and PolitiFact
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Adam Serwer / Mother Jones:
Defeating the Point of Fact-Checking
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Culture, Democracy in America, TIME.com and PolitiFact
Alec MacGillis / The New Republic:
The Hard Truth About Fact-Checking
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Slate, AlterNet.org and Mother Jones
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Marcus Brauchli, Washington Post Editor, Gathers Veteran Staffers To Steady Uneasy Newsroom — NEW YORK — The Washington Post newsroom has changed dramatically in recent years, with hundreds of staffers leaving in a series of buyouts and numerous star reporters and editors decamping …
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Washington Post
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Five things I would do as CEO of the New York Times — Janet Robinson recently stepped down from her position as chief executive officer of the New York Times, and while there haven't been any official announcements about why she left, the Wall Street Journal says that Robinson's lack …
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Gawker, eMedia Vitals, Erik Wemple and Reuters
John Eggerton / Multichannel:
Tennis Channel Wins Program Carriage Complaint Against Comcast — First Time a Network Has Prevailed in a Program Carriage Complaint Against Cable Operator — An FCC Administrative Law Judge has ruled in favor of the Tennis Channel in its program carriage complaint against Comcast.
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Company Town and Adweek
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Lauren Indvik / Mashable:
Inside The Atlantic: How One Magazine Got Profitable by Going ‘Digital First’ — The Atlantic's James Bennet, Scott Havens, Bob Cohn and Justin Smith. Photo courtesy of Richard A. Bloom. — With consecutive quarterly growth in both print and digital advertising sales …
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The Buttry Diary
The Independent:
Piers Morgan ‘unaware of phone hacking’ — Former tabloid newspaper editor Piers Morgan today told an inquiry into press standards that he was unaware of any phone hacking when in charge at the Daily Mirror. And Mr Morgan said he had not been “directly involved” in the use of private investigators at the Daily Mirror.
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Seth Godin / Seth Godin's Blog:
The new lazy journalism — When journalism was local, the math of reporting was pretty simple: you found a trend, an event or an issue that was important and you wrote about it. After all, you were the voice to your readers. Being in sync with a hundred or a thousand print journalists around …
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Future of Journalism
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
How reporters should do their job by the Great Teacher of Journalists — I have been defamed! Blogger Fleet Street Blues has compared me to North Korea's departed leader, Kim Jong-il. — “One less-explored aspect of Kim's legacy,” he writes, “is his role as a journalism academic …
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CJR and Future of Journalism
Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
Veoh Not Liable For Users' Copyright Infringement — In a closely watched case, a federal appellate court has ruled in favor of video-sharing site Veoh in a copyright infringement case brought by Universal Music Group. — The 9th Circuit ruled on Tuesday that Veoh qualified …
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NetNewsCheck Latest and GigaOM, more at Techmeme »
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Leveson inquiry: Rupert Murdoch could be called — News Corporation chairman and chief executive could give evidence before the inquiry early next year — Rupert Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, may be called to give evidence before the Leveson inquiry into ethics and standards in press.
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