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Felix Salmon:
Fabulous journalism — Blaine Harden's astonishing account of the life of Shin In Geun — a man born into a North Korean prison camp, who has lived pretty much the worst life imaginable — has received significantly less attention than the fact that This American Life has retracted its story …
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CNET, Quote and Comment, The New Yorker Blog, Poynter, Guardian, Forbes, BuzzFeed, The Wrap and Mashable!
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Busting Mr. Daisey — This week, the highly regarded public radio show This American Life learned a lesson that many journalists, including me, have learned the hard way: It's almost impossible for an editor to fact-check a contributor who lies. — The show, hosted by Ira Glass …
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Poynter, AllThingsD, BuzzMachine, Change of Subject, Grist, Boing Boing, CJR, Gothamist, Show Tracker and The Next Web
This American Life:
Retracting “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory”
Retracting “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory”
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The New Yorker Blog, Fresser, Chicago Business, TechCrunch, Erik Wemple, This American Life, Telegraph, Mike Daisey, Media Decoder, Slate, Business Insider, Change of Subject, Hot Topics, AllThingsD, TPM IdeaLab, Guardian, Hillicon Valley, WebProNews, TVNewser, PC Magazine, @jeffjarvis, @acarvin, Fox News, App Advice, @andrewphelps, VentureBeat, TIME.com, The Huffington Post, @craigsilverman, Forbes, Ars Technica, @jasoncherkis, Betabeat, The New York Observer, Gapers Block, @jcstearns, Gawker, Techland, TechCrunch, @borowitzreport, Fortune, @davidfolkenflik, @davidfolkenflik, Mediaite, GalleyCat, @jonathanshainin, The Consumerist, @scottros, Daring Fireball, GeekWire, The Next Web, SlashGear, The Atlantic Wire, The FJP, JIMROMENESKO.COM, FishbowlLA, Digits, The Atlantic Online, @rob_schmitz, parislemon, kottke.org, TPM IdeaLab, The Daily Caller, Erik Wemple and Poynter
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
New York Times edits article by Mike Daisey it posted just after Steve Jobs' death due to fabrications
New York Times edits article by Mike Daisey it posted just after Steve Jobs' death due to fabrications
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NYConvergence.com, The Verge and Daring Fireball
Laura June / The Verge:
Excerpts from ‘This American Life’ on Mike Daisey: ‘Why not just tell us what really happened?’
Excerpts from ‘This American Life’ on Mike Daisey: ‘Why not just tell us what really happened?’
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This American Life, VentureBeat and Soup
Rob Schmitz / Marketplace:
An acclaimed Apple critic made up the details
An acclaimed Apple critic made up the details
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Fortune, Forbes, Speakeasy, Guardian, The Atlantic Online, Forbes, Business Insider, The Huffington Post, TechCrunch, GigaOM, The Daily Caller, LA Observed, Gizmodo, Wall Street Journal, 9to5Mac, New York Magazine, Techdirt, MacRumors, TPM IdeaLab, The Verge, Erik Wemple, Business Insider and JIMROMENESKO.COM
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SMS Builds the Radio Star — Radio's history has spanned over 100 years and it continues to reach billions — even in remote and underserved regions. So when UNESCO announced that the inaugural World Radio Day was to be celebrated on February 13, one question on many people's lips was: Why now?
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A Defense of Nir Rosen — Over the past several days, the Guardian newspaper in the UK and the Pan Arab news channel Al Arabiya have been publishing a trove of emails purloined from the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. While Al Arabiya and others have declined to print several …
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@ggreenwald, Guardian and Blogs of War
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DramaFever nabs $4.5M to bring us the world's TV shows — Online video startup DramaFever has a message for American TV audiences: There is a whole world beyond the U.S.' borders, and it's making some great TV shows too. DramaFever has established itself as the biggest online distributor …
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat and AllThingsD
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
White House Stands By Obama Push for Yemeni Journalist to Remain Behind Bars — White House officials Friday defended President Obama's request that the government of Yemen keep a local journalist behind bars for alleged terrorist ties. — Abd al-Ilah Haydar Al-Sha'i had investigated …
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News Corp executive James Murdoch leaving board of Sotheby's auction house — LONDON — News Corp. executive James Murdoch, under pressure over his role in Britain's tabloid phone hacking scandal, is stepping down from the board of Sotheby's, the auction house has said.
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Guardian and The Independent
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“Shadow CIA” Buys Itself a Big-Name Journalist — Disgraced corporate spy shop Stratfor aims to bounce back from its Wikileaks debacle by hiring Robert D. Kaplan. — Stratfor, the Texas-based corporate intelligence agency that was once billed as a “shadow CIA,” announced this week …
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NY Post scolded by photographer — The New York Post declared this week that “Pinterest is the new Facebook,” and used the photo on the right to illustrate its story. The credit line said, “Courtesy Tory Burch via Pinterest.” — Actually, the photo was taken by Leela Cyd …
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Leela Cyd and Piercing the Veil
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Mystery of The Sun's ‘exclusives’ during Joanna Yeates murder hunt — The chief constable of Avon & Somerset police, Colin Port, is due to give evidence to the Leveson inquiry in two weeks' time. — He has been called in order to answer questions about alleged leaks to the press during the Joanna Yeates murder inquiry.
Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
Goldman Op-Ed Writer Got $150 for Unsolicited Critique — The New York Times (NYT), drawing criticism for running an op-ed by a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) executive attacking the bank, said the piece was one of thousands of unsolicited submissions it receives weekly.
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Gothamist and New York Times
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Adam Martin / The Atlantic Wire:
Mayor Bloomberg Proud of Bloomberg's Coverage of the Goldman Sachs Op-Ed
Mayor Bloomberg Proud of Bloomberg's Coverage of the Goldman Sachs Op-Ed
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TIME.com, Metropolis and Forbes
Craig Silverman / Poynter:
New Hampshire editor's front page column calls out competitor's sports editor for plagiarism — The editor of a New Hampshire newspaper has published a front page column to expose plagiarism at a competing paper. — “If one of my reporters did what Compass Sports Editor Joe Milliken did last week …
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Kirk LaPointe's … and www.eagletimes.com
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Heron: WSJ pay wall will be an ‘interesting challenge’ for social media efforts — Liz Heron, who is leaving her position as social media editor for The New York Times to lead social media and engagement for The Wall Street Journal, will have to figure out a strategy that works with the Journal's more restrictive pay wall.
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Forbes, BtoB Magazine and Poynter