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10:10 AM ET, March 20, 2012

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The unanswered questions about ‘This American Life’ and journalism — It's rare for a program to dedicate an entire episode to retracting a previous episode and to issue a press release explaining why. “This American Life” has put time and resources into retracting “Mr. Daisey Goes to the Apple Factory.”

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, CJR, InvestorPlace and Erik Wemple

Greg Sandoval / CNET:

Woz supports Mike Daisey's message and says you should too — Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said today that he loved Mike Daisey's show, believes his message is crucial, and said he spoke glowingly of Daisey to Steve Jobs before the Apple CEO died. In an interview with CNET …

Discussion: Reuters, Gizmodo, The Verge, VentureBeat and Poynter

Michael Wolff / Guardian:
In defence of Mike Daisey: never mind the facts, focus on the writing

Discussion: ArtsBeat, New York Times and Chickaboomer

Mike Daisey:
“Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”

Discussion: The latest episodes …, Erik Wemple, Washington Post, New Beans, Slate, AllThingsD, @kashhill, @jackshafer, @jayrosen_nyu, PopWatch, The Wrap, Techland, CNET, The Huffington Post, The Stranger … and Poynter

Matthew Baldwin / defective yeti:
Putting the I in Story — I worked as a customer service …

Discussion: Betabeat, The Huffington Post, Forbes, Mashable!, Poynter, MacStories, Gawker and Fast Company

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

New York Times Makes Its Pay Wall Harder To Jump — A year after launching a controversial pay wall, the New York Times says it has nearly half a million paying subscribers for its flagship paper. It also says it will make it harder for people to read on the Web without paying up.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, The New York Times Company, Poynter, @nytprguy and Gizmodo

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Bolstered by higher-than-predicted subscription rates, the ‘Times’ gets more aggressive about charging for online content — The New York Times and its sister brand, The International Herald Tribune, have clocked roughly 454,000 paid digital subscribers since one year ago …

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
A year into the ‘Times’ digital subscription program, analysts and insiders see surprising success …

Discussion: Capital New York and JIMROMENESKO.COM

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

AOL Prepping New Weekly iPad Magazine Called ‘Huffington’ — Eat your heart out, Oprah. (Not actually what it will look like, probably.) — At a conference in London today, David Shing, AOL's “digital prophet” (actually his title), expressed a strong view on the superiority of websites …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and The Next Web

Jeff Roberts / paidContent:

Why The Wall Street Journal Isn't Adding Digital To Its Sunday Edition — Common wisdom says there's no future in print newspapers and that the rest of the country is fed up with Wall Street. But both propositions fall flat in the case of the Wall Street Journal (NSDQ: NWS) Sunday edition.

Discussion: Talking Biz News

Jeff Roberts / paidContent:
Newspapers And Video: Slow And Steady Or Flood The Zone?

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Does the Texas Tribune's nonprofit journalism hurt journalists? — Stephen Robert Morse doesn't like the Texas Tribune's nonprofit business model for two reasons: Journalists at for-profit publications, he argues, now compete with bigger name Tribune journalists whose work newspapers can run for free …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Eric Deggans / Tampa Bay Times:

National news media attention to Trayvon Martin death explodes as feds investigate — Nearly a month after a self-appointed Neighborhood Watch guard shot an unarmed 17-year-old African American boy to death, the national news media is beginning to train it's lens on the Trayvon Martin case …

Discussion: newsfeed.time.com and Mother Jones

Business Week:

Former Gannett CEO gets $32M severance package — MCLEAN, VA. — Former Gannett Co. CEO Craig Dubow's received a severance package valued at about $32 million after chronic health problems prompted his resignation from the largest U.S. newspaper publisher.

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Keach Hagey leaves Politico for ‘Wall Street Journal’ — The Wall Street Journal has a new print media reporter: Politico's Keach Hagey, who will join the paper's media desk in mid-April, acccording to a memo that went out today. — Journal staffer John Jannarone, meanwhile …

Discussion: mediabistro.com

Evgeny Morozov / Slate:

A Robot Stole My Pulitzer! — How automated journalism and loss of reading privacy may hurt civil discourse. — Can technology be autonomous? Does it lead a life of its own and operate independently of human guidance? From the French theologian Jacques Ellul to the Unabomber, this used to be widely accepted.

Discussion: The FJP

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

Media Culture Shifts: theory vs. reality — This weekend, my ritual readings were dominated by corporate media culture issues: How to transition from the legacy media culture to the more agile and chaotic digital world? I've been reading up on this topic — and sometimes conferencing about it — for years.

Discussion: Guardian