Mediagazer: ‘Last Lecture’ author Jeffrey Zaslow Dies (Patricia Montemurri/Tucson Citizen)

7:05 PM ET, February 10, 2012

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Journal Columnist Jeffrey Zaslow Is Killed in Crash — Wall Street Journal reporter Jeffrey Zaslow, who wrote some of the paper's most memorable front-page features and became a best-selling author, died in a car crash Friday morning at age 53. — Mr. Zaslow was killed in an automobile accident in northern Michigan.

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Patricia Montemurri / Tucson Citizen:

‘Last Lecture’ author Jeffrey Zaslow Dies — Jeffrey Zaslow, the West Bloomfield, Mich. author who wrote best-sellers such as The Last Lecture about a professor dying of pancreatic cancer and a recent book on U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' recovery from a gunshot wound to the head …

Jim Romenesko:

Dear Patch: I was hyperlocal long before you — I really am a big fan of hyperlocal. — In fact, I was hyperlocal nearly two decades before you launched. — In 1992, I started a biweekly paper in Milwaukee called The Public Record. The concept of the four-page publication was simple …

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Adam Martin / The Atlantic Wire:

Patch Would Like its Journalists to Let it Speak For Them — Patch's request to its hundreds of local editors not to comment on Jim Romenesko's reporting on Patch is just the latest example of a big media company trying, and failing, to control its people's participation in Internet conversation.

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Jeff Roberts / paidContent:
Where Does Arianna Fit Into AOL's New Patch Plans?

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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

Music Labels' Joint Venture, VEVO, Shows Pirated NFL Game At Sundance — Over the last decade the major music labels — and their trade organization, the Recording Industry Association of America — have established a repeated pattern of attacking consumers in the name of squelching illegal file-sharing.

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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Fox Business Makes Over Its Prime-Time Lineup — Updated | The struggling Fox Business Network canceled its entire prime-time programming lineup in one stroke on Thursday. — In place of the political talk shows that are currently shown from 8 to 11 p.m., Fox Business will replay …

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Lens:

A Painterly World Press Photo Winner — A thin man rests his head on the shoulder of a burqua-clad woman, the pair collapsed together against a wall. The expression on her face can't be seen. But her body language - right arm wrapped tightly around his neck, left hand clinging to his arm - conveys everything her expression cannot.

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Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Guardian editor takes pay cut — Editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger reduces annual salary by 10% and asks company to halve its contribution to his pension — The Guardian's editor-in-chief is to take a voluntary pay cut of 10%, and ask the publisher of the newspaper to halve the annual contribution it makes to his pension.

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Paul McNally / Journalism.co.uk:

EU privacy rulings: ‘huge consequences’ for UK press — European Court of Human Rights ‘recognises essential role played by press’ with two landmark rulings in favour of free speech — The court overturned a previous ruling that Princess Caroline of Monaco (pictured in 1998) had her privacy breached

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L.V. Anderson / Slate:

Does Time Magazine Think Americans Are Stupid? … - Obama Just Pulled a Fast One on Republicans With His Contraception Compromise — Is One of the Most Influential Pastors in the U.S. Too Involved in His Flock's Sex Lives? - Lithwick: Prop 8 Ruling Shows Gay Marriage Opponents Have No Legal or Empirical Case

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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:

New revenue threat looms as newspapers' legal notice franchise comes under fresh pressure from cash-strapped states — State and local governments are almost as pressed as newspapers these days to shave expenses in the face of falling revenues. — That has given fresh impetus to efforts …

Ashwin Seshagiri / MediaShift:

Bay Citizen, Center for Investigative Reporting Plan to Merge. Now What? — The Bay Citizen and the Center for Investigative Reporting, two non-profit organizations based in the Bay Area, announced formally Tuesday that they intend to merge. — Under terms of the agreement, Berkeley …

Discussion: Poynter

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Raymond Perelman ‘dismayed’ he was ‘excluded’ from bidding on Philly papers — Raymond Perelman, who bid two years ago to purchase the Philadelphia daily newspapers, says he was “excluded” from the sale process currently under way, according to information obtained by the Associated Press, which reports:

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