Mediagazer: Tributes paid to Los Angeles Times' first woman reporter (Paul McNally/Journalism.co.uk)

12:45 PM ET, March 21, 2012

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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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Paul McNally / Journalism.co.uk:

Tributes paid to Los Angeles Times' first woman reporter — Dorothy Townsend, who has died at the age of 88, was a pioneer and a lone female reporter in a team of men — The Los Angeles Times has paid tribute to its first-ever female news reporter - a lone woman in a team of male journalists at the title in the mid-1950s and 1960s.

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Kevin Roderick / LA Observed:
LA Times posts reporter opening - the day before layoffs *

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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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Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
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Mark Sweney / Guardian: BSkyB denies pulled F1 story undermines Sky News's independence

Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:

Former Roll Call Editor Spills Beans About Questionable Racial Hiring Practices — 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 of The Christian Science Monitor about hiring practices at CQ Roll Call.

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 …

Adam Martin / The Atlantic Wire:

Mike Daisey Blames Other Reporters for Perpetuating His Lies — In his first public remarks since This American Life ran its retraction of his Foxconn story last weekend, Mike Daisey explained how the system of talk-show types interviewing journalists turned him into a liar.

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Rebecca J. Rosen / The Atlantic Online:
Mike Daisey's First Public Talk After the ‘This American Life’ Retraction

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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 …

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
Daily Mail is named Newspaper of the Year

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Press Gazette:
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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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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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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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Daniel Victor / ProPublica:

If TV Stations Won't Post Their Data on Political Ads, We Will — Every local broadcast station has a repository of documents about political advertising that you have a legal right to see, but are accessible only by physically traveling to the station and asking to see “the public file.”

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Corey Pein / Willamette Week:

A Newsman's Secret — The woman with Bob Caldwell on the day he died works as an internet call girl. — Over the past two weeks, readers of The Oregonian have witnessed an extraordinary episode in the newspaper's 162-year history. — On March 10, Bob Caldwell, a respected Oregon journalist …

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Jeff Roberts / paidContent:

Aereo TV Will Stream For Months As Court Case Simmers — Aereo, the controversial technology that turns iPhones and iPads into portable TV sets and DVRs, will not disappear anytime soon despite efforts by studios to snuff it in court. — Court filings show that the first hearing dates are set for May 30 and May 31 in New York.

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

BuzzFeed Launches Women's Vertical, “Shift,” Helmed By Amy Odell — There's a new girl in town, joining established women's blogs Jezebel and The Hairpin: Shift, BuzzFeed's new women's vertical, run by New York magazine and Jezebel alums. — Amy Odell, previously editor of New York magazine fashion blog “The Cut,” is editor.

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McKay Coppins / Buzzfeed:

Story About White House Scrubbing Obama Daughter Travel Story Has Now Been Scrubbed — The White House's campaign to scrub a story from the internet yesterday about Malia Obama's trip to Mexico has gone meta: a media reporter's blog post about the administration's efforts to scrub the story …

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