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Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
Brooks Said to Be Quizzed by Police on Defense Official Payment — Rebekah Brooks, the former Chief Executive Officer of News Corp. (NWSA)'s U.K. publishing unit, was questioned by police about payments made to a source at the Ministry of Defence, a person familiar with the investigation said.
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PA sources: Former News International CEO Rebekah Brooks questioned about alleged payments to MoD officials
Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:
Los Angeles Times Cuts Staff Again (Exclusive) — The Los Angeles Times let go more than a dozen staffers on Tuesday as part of another round of layoffs and buyouts primarily hitting the editorial side of the paper, TheWrap has learned. — TheWrap previously reported that this round …
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LA Observed
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Paul McNally / Journalism.co.uk:
Tributes paid to Los Angeles Times' first woman reporter
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Kevin Roderick / LA Observed:
LA Times posts reporter opening - the day before layoffs *
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The Wrap and Talking Biz News
Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:
I can't stop reading this analysis of Gawker's editorial strategy — In January, newly minted Gawker editor A.J. Daulerio announced an experiment: Each day for two weeks, a single staff writer would be assigned “traffic-whoring duty.” [Language alert.]
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Online Journalism Blog and Gawker
Village Voice:
What Nick Kristof Got Wrong: Village Voice Media Responds — Nicholas D. Kristof was wrong about the most devastating ‘fact’ in his Sunday, March 18th, column in The New York Times regarding Backpage.com. — He wrote about an underage victim of human trafficking: “Alissa says pimps routinely peddled her on Backpage.”
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Poynter, The Huffington Post, Erik Wemple and Runnin' Scared
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Nicholas Kristof / On The Ground:
Responding to Village Voice on Sex Trafficking — After my Sunday column criticizing Village Voice Media for providing a forum for sex traffickers on its Backpage.com websites, Village Voice has struck back. It has just gone on line with an article “What Nick Kristof got wrong”: — The article begins:
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FrontBurner, WebProNews and Forbes
Sarah Marshall / journalism.co.uk:
BSkyB CEO confirms he pulled Sky News story on F1 — Jeremy Darroch, the chief executive of British Sky Broadcasting, has confirmed that he asked Sky News to pull a story on Formula 1, ahead of the launch of a Sky F1 HD channel. — The Financial Times yesterday reported that Darroch …
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Digital Spy
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Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:
Former Roll Call Editor Spills Beans About Questionable Racial Hiring Practices — UPDATE: Roll Call Editorial Director Mike Mills Responds. — Roll Call's former Features Editor Debra Bruno (a.k.a. Bebbie Druno) is bound to burn a few bridges today with a story in the Opinion Pages …
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FishbowlNY
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Debra Bruno / Christian Science Monitor:
Facebook stalking in the name of affirmative action — Ahead of the Supreme Court hearing on affirmative action, I recall how at Roll Call newspaper, I was told that one of our three interns had to be from a racial minority. Diversity is important, but giving someone an advantage beyond …
Rebecca J. Rosen / The Atlantic Online:
Mike Daisey's First Public Talk After the ‘This American Life’ Retraction — The performer continued to mix apologies with defenses of his fact-based but not factual work. — Last night, at a long-scheduled appearance at Georgetown University, Mike Daisey gave his first public talk since …
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The Stranger …, Thanks:@jaredbkeller
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Adam Martin / The Atlantic Wire:
Mike Daisey Blames Other Reporters for Perpetuating His Lies
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The Huffington Post and CNN
John Cook / Gawker:
There Is No Such Thing as a ‘Larger Truth’: This American Life's Rich History of Embellishment — Mike Daisey has been roundly and justly castigated for selling his bulls**t stories about visiting the Foxconn complex in Shenzhen, China, to This American Life.
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The Huffington Post, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Slate, PopWatch, Melville House Books and Culture Monster
Sarah Marshall / journalism.co.uk:
Social predicted to overtake search as Guardian traffic driver — The Guardian's Facebook app has been downloaded eight million times since it was launched six months ago, seeing around 40,000 downloads a day. — Speaking at the Guardian Changing Media Summit, Tanya Cordrey …
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@antderosa and One Man & His Blog
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Jim Romenesko:
CNN's Chapin named NPR Senior Foreign Editor — Edith Chapin is leaving CNN to become NPR News Senior Foreign Editor. Since 2007, she's been the cable news network's vice president and deputy bureau chief in Washington, D.C. NPR says “she brings a critical constellation of skills to this job …
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mediabistro.com and FishbowlDC
Erik Wemple:
Jason Mattera interviews someone — is it Bono? — Jason Mattera, editor at large at Human Events, is famous for rough-and-tumble journalism. Last year he created a sensation when he pulled something of a fast one on Vice President Biden. He distracted the veep by pretending he wanted to pose for a picture with him.
Lauren Effron / ABC News:
Tina Brown Says Newsweek/Daily Beast Isn't ‘Making Money Yet’ — There were many skeptics when the 79-year-old news magazine “Newsweek” merged with the upstart website The Daily Beast in 2010 under the leadership of Tina Brown. Could two media outlets, both loosing money, be combined into a financially sound operation?
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ABCNEWS and FishbowlNY
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
The inside story of the other Milly Dowler scoop — Daily Mirror reporter David Collins yesterday beat The Guardian's Nick Davies to the title of reporter of the year at The Press Awards. — Whereas Davies revealed the illegal hacking of Milly Dowler's phone, it was the journalism of Collins …
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Press Gazette:
Press Awards: The full list of winners
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Mirror.co.uk, Guardian and FleetStreetBlues
Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
Daily Mail is named Newspaper of the Year
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BBC, Journalism.co.uk, Press Gazette, Guardian, Guardian, Telegraph, @ingridlunden and @emilybell
Longreads:
Introducing Travelreads: The Best Storytelling for the Best Places in the World, Presented by Virgin Atlantic — One of the coolest things about Longreads is when someone tweets: … This got us thinking: What if we started gathering the best #longreads for every destination in the world?
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The Atlantic Online, AdAge and Adweek
Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:
FT industrial action cancelled after improved pay offer — Threatened industrial action by journalists at the Financial Times appears to have been called off after members accepted an improved offer from management. — Around 250 NUJ members planned to down tools for a second time on Thursday …
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