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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Washington Post Tests Personalized News Program — If you're tired of seeing the same news as everyone else, The Washington Post is now experimenting with personalized headlines. — That experiment is called Personal Post, and it's available at personal.washingtonpost.com, where you'll see a river of content that you can customize.
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10,000 Words and The Wrap, Thanks:@forrestkoba
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Jason Del Rey / AdAge:
Washington Post Co. Decides Slate Is All Grown Up, Needs Own Ad-Sales Force — Slate Editor Jacob Weisberg: 'We're Finally in Control of Our Own Destiny' — Online magazine Slate has been around for more than 15 years. In that time, it has had two owners (Microsoft previously …
Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
Washington Post Co. fourth-quarter earnings drop 22 percent — The Washington Post Co. reported Friday fourth-quarter 2011 net income of $61.7 million, or $8.03 a share, down 22 percent from $79.0 million or $9.42 a share a year earlier as its Kaplan education division and flagship newspaper operations continued to shrink.
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Business Wire
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
With Promotion, NPR Signals Growing Prominence of Digital Media — NPR said Friday that its executive in charge of digital media, Kinsey Wilson, would start to oversee news and programming as well, effectively stitching together the organization's core radio divisions and its newer online and mobile division.
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rbr.com, NPR, Poynter, FishbowlNY, FishbowlDC, The Wrap, mediabistro.com and NPR
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Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
NPR introduces new Ethics Handbook, appoints standards and practices editor — Today, NPR is introducing staffers to a new Ethics Handbook that has been in the works for more than a year and illustrates how the organization is taking steps to safeguard against some of the ethical dilemmas it's faced in the past.
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Felix Salmon:
Matter's vision for long-form journalism — Yesterday morning, a very exciting new journalism project was launched on Kickstarter. It's called Matter, and it's going to be home to long-form investigative narrative journalism about science and technology. “No cheap reviews, no snarky opinion pieces, no top ten lists,” they promise.
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eMedia Vitals, @jayrosen_nyu and Business Insider
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Stephen Robert Morse:
Why I will not donate to this Kickstarter campaign that purports to save journalism and why you …
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Forbes and Boing Boing
John Biggs / TechCrunch:
Support Long-Form Journalism With This Online Kickstarter Project
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The Next Web, NetNewsCheck Latest and 10,000 Words
Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing:
We don't own the news we break — MG Siegler complains that the Wall Street Journal failed to credit him when covering a story he earlier scooped at TechCrunch: Apple Acquires Chomp. … The WSJ's omission is rude, for sure. How hard is it to begin a sentence with “First reported by MG Siegler at TechCrunch,” or somesuch?
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Felix Salmon, GigaOM, AllThingsD and parislemon, more at Techmeme »
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
People don't care about scoops, they care about trust
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WebProNews, craigconnects, Talking Biz News, Poynter and Kirk LaPointe's …
Matthew Creamer / AdAge:
Jim Romenesko Talks Fox News, Ad Rates and How He Snagged 300,000 Page Views on a Saturday — Popular Media Blogger Answers Matthew Creamer's Questions — Jim Romenesko, the proto-media blogger who became a must-read for journos only to get lost in the din of algorithmic aggregators and social media, is back.
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CyberJournalist.net and ShortFormBlog, Thanks:@matt_creamer
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Mark Lisheron / American Journalism Review:
Romenesko Roars Back — Jim Romenesko is scrolling through …
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eMedia Vitals
Guardian:
IPCC to investigate new claims of police leak to News International — Allegations that senior Scotland Yard officer leaked information to newspaper executive during 2006 phone-hacking inquiry — The police watchdog has begun an inquiry into claims a senior officer who worked …
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Reuters
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Journalism Online Sold For $19.6 Million; $15.3 Million Earnout For Brill, Crovitz — When RR Donnelley bought Journalism Online from Steve Brill, Gordon Grovitz, Leo Hindery, Jr., and their investors last March, I reported that the deal range was $35 million to $45 million—and got a lot of raised eyebrows in return.
Samantha Conti / WWD:
Condé Nast U.K. Launches Wired Consulting — WIRED FOR PROFIT: The U.K. edition of Wired magazine is getting into the consulting business — and the editors are doing the heavy lifting. Condé Nast U.K. said Thursday that Wired Consulting will be a bespoke business consultancy …
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One Man & His Blog, The Atlantic Wire and Wired.co.uk
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Risk level in Syria has media outlets in quandary over coverage — There was a tragic symmetry to the final dispatches of Marie Colvin, a foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times of London who died Tuesday night on assignment in the Syrian city of Homs. In an on-air chat with CNN's Anderson Cooper …
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Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Huffington Post, Telegraph and Mediaite
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
John Paton to news execs: Abandon the gatekeeper model — If there was an Uncle Sam-style campaign to recruit media executives into the “digital first” movement, John Paton would probably win the role of poster boy in a landslide. Even before he became the CEO of the giant MediaNews Group chain …
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San Francisco Peninsula …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Media Groups Unite on Protecting Sources — WASHINGTON — A broad coalition of media organizations — including The New York Times — urged a federal appeals court on Tuesday to protect an investigative reporter from being forced to testify about his confidential sources …
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Firedoglake
Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:
Females on Campaign Trail Go For Sexpot Look — Forget about SexyTwitPics. Washington has its own crop of would-be sexy females on the loose. And an unusual trend is developing among campaign and White House reporters of the XX persuasion. They're using provocative …
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@attackerman, @annielowrey, @justinnxt, Vanity Fair, @kashhill, @ledbetreuters, @hamiltonnolan, @jeffbercovici, The Atlantic Wire, New York Magazine, @lheron and Poynter
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Erin Gloria Ryan / Jezebel:
Concerned Female Reporter Can't Help But Notice Female Reporters Are Looking Awful Slutty Nowadays [Sluts]
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Guardian
BBC:
Wikileaks suspect Bradley Manning defers pleas — Bradley Manning is accused of leaking 700,000 files to Wikileaks — The US Army private accused of leaking classified documents to Wikileaks has chosen not to enter a plea at the start of his court martial.
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The Next Web
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