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1:55 PM ET, March 20, 2012

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Poynter:
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.”
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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 …
Michael Wolff / Guardian:
In defence of Mike Daisey: never mind the facts, focus on the writing  —  The This American Life controversy shows that the problem with journalism may not lie with facts or truth, but the form itself  —  Most journalists are terrible writers.  Their copy is either overhauled by diligent editors …
Discussion: ArtsBeat
Paul Starobin / CJR:
Money Talks  —  Gillian Tett, the US managing editor of the London-based Financial Times, is “sharp” and “glamorous,” according to a 2010 profile by The Daily Beast.  She may even be “the most powerful woman in newspapers,” the Beast said, as the FT “intends to become a status symbol of American business.”
Discussion: Felix Salmon
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
NYT: We Have 454,000 Digital Subs So Let's Turn Down The Meter  —  The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) ends year one of limiting full NYTimes.com access to those who pay with nearly a half-million subscribers—454,000, to be exact—and starts year two with measures to push more growth.
Jim Romenesko:
Keach Hagey joins WSJ as Russell Adams becomes an editor  —  About a month ago, Politico media writer Keach Hagey heard about the opening on the Wall Street Journal's media desk.  (It was WSJ Digital Network managing editor Raju Narisetti who sent her the job listing. )  She thought it was a dream job.
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Keach Hagey leaves Politico for ‘Wall Street Journal’
Discussion: mediabistro.com
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
How BuzzFeed's Andrew Kaczynski mines the Internet for video gold  —  In a Dickens novel, Andrew Kaczynski would be The Ghost of Statements Past — haunting political candidates with visions of years-old contradictions, hypocrisy or embarrassment they would rather forget.
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 …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
White House scrubs Malia Obama story  —  The White House is now confirming that it asked media organizations to pull a report about Malia Obama's Spring Break vacation.  —  “From the beginning of the administration, the White House has asked news outlets not to report on or photograph …
Discussion: TheBlaze.com and Mediaite
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
New iPad's Perk for Publishers  —  The new high-res iPad would, like so many things from Apple, seem a mixed bag for publishers.  —  Its richer visuals raise concerns that consumers already frustrated by long download times for digital editions of magazines will have to suffer still more waiting.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Sun on Sunday's sales slump as rivals regroup  —  Murdoch tabloid loses 300,000 sales in fourth week, down to 2.3m, as Sunday Mirror and People perform strongly  —  The Sun's Sunday edition suffered a surprise slump on its fourth weekend, losing more than 300,000 in sales …
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 …
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
If you have news, it will be aggregated and/or curated  —  The Pew Research Center has come out with a massive new report on the state of media as part of its Project for Excellence in Journalism, and it comes to a number of conclusions about where the industry stands …
 
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Eric Deggans / Tampa Bay Times:
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
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Discussion: bbc.co.uk, ZDNet and Media Week
Evgeny Morozov / Slate:
A Robot Stole My Pulitzer!
Discussion: The FJP
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Oprah Winfrey Network to Lay Off 30
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