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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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@kevinoncfb and Associated Press
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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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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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The Huffington Post, Press Gazette and Digital Spy
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Richard Adams / Guardian:
What does CNN do with Piers Morgan now? | Richard Adams
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Associated Press, Business Insider and New York Magazine
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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Adam Serwer / Mother Jones:
Defeating the Point of Fact-Checking — Fact-checking, as a genre, probably shouldn't exist. It does largely because of one of the weirder conventions of mainstream journalism, which is to give equal weight to competing claims regardless of whether or not they actually deserve it.
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Culture, Democracy in America, TIME.com and PolitiFact
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Brian Beutler / TPM:
Ryan's Plan Still Ends Medicare Even If Politifact Rates That As A Lie
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New York Magazine, Hot Air, Gawker, Big Journalism, Washington Monthly, Paul Krugman, The New Republic, Washington Wire, Forbes and PolitiFact
Alec MacGillis / The New Republic:
The Hard Truth About Fact-Checking
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Slate, Mother Jones and AlterNet.org
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, Reuters and Erik Wemple
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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New York Times, Company Town and Adweek
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Joe Flint / Company Town:
Bloomberg TV says Tennis Channel win over Comcast boosts its case
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Wall Street Journal, Hollywood Reporter and New York Post
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
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
John Plunkett / Guardian:
BBC accused of stifling local radio cuts debate — Radio station controllers told not to trail cost-cutting proposals more than twice a week — The BBC has been accused of stifling the debate over controversial local radio cuts by curbing the number of times presenters can mention the issue on air.
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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
Marc Chacksfield / TechRadar.com:
Lovefilm signs Sony up for on-demand content — Another big name on board before Netflix arrives — Lovefilm has announced it has added another big name to its on-demand catalogue, with Sony Pictures signing up to offer premium content through the service.
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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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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CNN, Wall Street Journal, The Wrap, Chickaboomer, Bloomberg and AllThingsD
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