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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, Harper's, Melville House Books and Culture Monster
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Mike Daisey Blames Other Reporters for Perpetuating His Lies
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CNN and The Huffington Post
Rebecca J. Rosen / The Atlantic Online:
Mike Daisey's First Public Talk After the ‘This American Life’ Retraction
Mike Daisey's First Public Talk After the ‘This American Life’ Retraction
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The Stranger …, Thanks:@jaredbkeller
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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, Gawker and News for Digital Journalists
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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Guardian
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PA sources: Former News International CEO Rebekah Brooks questioned about alleged payments to MoD officials
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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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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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Los Angeles Times and LA Observed
Kevin Roderick / LA Observed:
LA Times posts reporter opening - the day before layoffs *
LA Times posts reporter opening - the day before layoffs *
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The Wrap and Talking Biz News
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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
Responding to Village Voice on Sex Trafficking
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WebProNews, FrontBurner and Forbes
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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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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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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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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 …
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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
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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, Adweek and AdAge
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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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Guardian and News on News
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Lessons learned from a period of intense newspaper turmoil — Between September 2001 and November 2006, I was editor of two Knight Ridder papers, first the Lexington Herald-Leader and then The Philadelphia Inquirer. It was a period of intense turmoil. Today Knight Ridder no longer exists.
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Nieman Journalism Lab, paidContent, JIMROMENESKO.COM and The Newspaper Guild
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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
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
Daily Mail is named Newspaper of the Year
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BBC, Press Gazette, Journalism.co.uk, Guardian, Guardian, Telegraph, @ingridlunden and @emilybell