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Olivia Smith / CJR:
A New App for Citizen Journalists — Rawporter joins an increasingly crowded field — Rob Gaige and Kevin Davis were having a drink at Dandelion Market in Charlotte, North Carolina, when a car crashed into the restaurant next door. — “We saw a number of people recording the excitement …
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Dave Copeland / ReadWriteWeb:
Rawporter Is A Brilliant, But Poorly-Executed, Idea — The future of journalism, as Rawporter sees it, will include armies of regular people selling raw video footage to outlets who can't get a crew to breaking news events. — But, based on a test of Rawporter's iOS app Tuesday, the future of journalism is going to have to wait.
Associated Press:
Red Cross in Syria fails to evacuate reporters — BEIRUT (AP) — A Red Cross team evacuated 27 people from a besieged neighborhood in the Syrian city of Homs on Friday but apparently failed to get out two wounded Western journalists and the bodies of two others killed by government rockets.
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The Daily Beast and Jeff Sonderman
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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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St. Petersburg Times, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Media Decoder and The Huffington Post
Michael Wolff / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch's Sun on Sunday sets on his empire — At 80, News Corp's boss still has an instinct for a good story and the will to change a media narrative - but time is not on his side — Murdoch has crossed a certain Rubicon with the frantic launch of the Sunday Sun.
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Associated Press
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Jerry Hirsch / Los Angeles Times:
Los Angeles Times launches new membership program — Starting March 5, online readers will be asked to buy a digital subscription at an initial rate of 99 cents for four weeks. Readers who do not subscribe will be able to read 15 stories in a 30-day period for free.
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DigiDave, Media Decoder, New York Times, paidContent, Words at Work, Squid Ink, The Informer, The Huffington Post, @poynter, The Wrap, TechCrunch and LA Observed
David Ng / Culture Monster:
Shepard Fairey enters guilty plea in criminal case with AP — Shepard Fairey, the Los Angeles street artist, has entered a guilty plea in his criminal case with the Associated Press. The artist pled guilty in a New York court to one count of criminal contempt for destroying documents …
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Flavorwire, Gallerist NY, @felixsalmon, Associated Press, ABCNEWS, Saint Petersblog and Boing Boing
Jack Shafer:
Who cares if a politician buys a newspaper? — Philadelphia has gone all hinky at the prospect of an investor group headed by former governor, former mayor, former district attorney, and former head of the Democratic National Committee Ed Rendell purchasing Philadelphia Media Network …
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NPR
Mike Daisey:
David Pogue is Only Competent to Review Gadgets — David Pogue weighed in yesterday about the Nightline piece. — I have been trying to engage with Mr. Pogue, but it hasn't gone well. — I hate to take the gloves off, but I feel like there's little choice after this latest column.
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CJR, Boing Boing, Business Insider and Pogue's Posts, more at Techmeme »
Hunter Walker / Politicker:
FishbowlDC Writer Responds To ‘Sexy’ Photo Flap: 'I Don't Apologize' — FishbowlDC writer Betsy Rothstein created a huge controversy yesterday by publishing a story declaring an “unusual trend” of female “campaign and White House reporters ... using provocative, sometimes sexy photographs of themselves for their Twitter accounts.”
Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
News Corp. Hacker Said to Have U.S. Numbers — The former News Corp. private detective who hacked phones for the News of the World had U.S. telephone numbers among the details of British hacking victims in his notes, a person familiar with the matter said. — Glenn Mulcaire …
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Deadline.com
Courtney E. Martin / Christian Science Monitor:
Melissa Harris-Perry show at MSNBC breaks more than gender, race barrier — Melissa Harris-Perry is the first African American woman to solo-host a news and politics show on a major television outlet, MSNBC. But she also breaks a pundit barrier. As a professor at Tulane University …
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Condé Nast Aims To Unify Tablet And Mobile Magazine Production — Wired and GQ magazine publisher Condé Nast is amongst those now seeking a cost-effective cross-platform tablet production workflow for the blossoming number of new devices, after earlier implementing an iPad-specific strategy.
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Samantha Conti / WWD:
Condé Nast U.K. Launches Wired Consulting
Condé Nast U.K. Launches Wired Consulting
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Wired.co.uk, The Atlantic Wire, Felix, One Man & His Blog and Talking Biz News
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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The Buttry Diary, Poynter and Big Journalism
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
With Promotion, NPR Signals Growing Prominence of Digital Media
With Promotion, NPR Signals Growing Prominence of Digital Media
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NPR, mediabistro.com, FishbowlNY, NPR, Poynter, rbr.com and FishbowlDC
Katherine Rosman / Wall Street Journal:
Tweeting the Oscars: I'd Like to Thank My Twitter Followers — Turning snarky commentary into network strategy: A social-media guide to Oscar night. — This year's Academy Awards broadcast may not set any TV ratings records. But it's poised for a shot at another title: It could be the biggest night yet for social media.
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Marketing Pilgrim, The Next Web, Guardian, The Corsair, Company Town, USA Today, New York Times and TVNewser