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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Woodward rejects new Watergate claims — Bob Woodward is strongly disputing a new report in which it is revealed that his mentor, legendary Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, once expressed “fear in my soul” that Woodward had embellished for dramatic effect certain key details of his reporting on the Watergate scandal.
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New York Magazine and Guardian
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Jeff Himmelman / New York Magazine:
The Red Flag in the Flowerpot — Four decades after Watergate, there's something that still nags at Ben Bradlee about Deep Throat. — One day in early 2007, Bob Woodward poked his head into my office. He and his wife, Elsa, had been out for dinner the night before with Ben Bradlee and his wife, Sally Quinn.
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ABCNEWS, Washington Post, Politico, Poynter, The New York Observer and @benfenton
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Himmelman, NY Mag defend Woodward-Watergate story — Reporter Jeff Himmelman and the editors at New York Magazine are standing by a new article that casts doubts on some aspects of Bob Woodward's Watergate reporting, despite the deliberate omission of a 2010 interview that — Woodward says — undermines the entire premise of the piece.
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The Huffington Post
David Carr / New York Times:
Navigating a Tightrope With Amazon — Last Tuesday, Buzz Bissinger hopped the Amtrak train to Philadelphia from New York, where he had done a bit of publicity for “After Friday Night Lights,” a 12,000-word e-book that had been performing nicely since its release.
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paidContent, DealBook, Poynter, Media Decoder, Fortune, Felix Salmon and Melville House Books
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Makes $300M Investment In New Barnes & Noble Subsidiary To Battle With Amazon And Apple In E-books — Barnes & Noble has found a new, major partner in its fight to get an edge over Amazon and Apple in the heating up market for e-books and the devices being used to consume them …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
At $1.7 billion, Nook is worth more than Barnes & Noble itself
At $1.7 billion, Nook is worth more than Barnes & Noble itself
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paidContent
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Scandal and Scrutiny Hem In Murdoch's Empire — In the months after a phone-hacking scandal erupted in Britain last summer, Rupert Murdoch told people within News Corporation that he wanted to revisit his media company's discontinued $12 billion bid for the pay television service British Sky Broadcasting.
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Free Press
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David Milliken / Reuters:
Cameron denies “grand deal” to help Murdoch
Cameron denies “grand deal” to help Murdoch
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Reuters, Associated Press, Telegraph, Guardian and Guardian
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
‘The American Prospect’ Magazine May Close In May — The American Prospect, an influential liberal politics and policy magazine, could shut its doors at the end of May unless the nonprofit publication raises a half million dollars to fill a current funding gap.
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FishbowlDC
Alex Pareene / Salon:
Tucker Carlson's downward spiral — Once a promising young magazine writer, the bow-tied Daily Caller pundit has come to epitomize right-wing hackdom … In many ways Tucker Carlson's a better symbol of the pathetic state of what passes for conservative journalism than even Glenn Beck …
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Columbia to distribute $2 million in grant money to find ‘best practices’ in digital media — Three months after receiving an unprecedented $18 million endowment from Helen Gurley Brown to create a “media innovation” institute, Columbia's journalism school is celebrating yet another significant cash infusion.
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Poynter, CyberJournalist.net and Columbia University …
Nicholas Carr / Technology Review:
The Library of Utopia — Google's ambitious book-scanning program is foundering in the courts. Now a Harvard-led group is launching its own sweeping effort to put our literary heritage online. Will the Ivy League succeed where Silicon Valley failed? — In his 1938 book World Brain …
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Softpedia News, The Verge and The Daily Dish
Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
Inside The AP's Social Strategy — In the spring of 1846, five New York daily newspapers made journalism history when they founded the New York Associated Press to help incur the costs to deliver news from Texas during the Mexican-American War. After some legal issues between …
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The Newspaper Guild
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Twitter becomes a key real-time tool for campaigns — The bully pulpit has a new kind of altar call: “Tweet them. … President Obama repeated that Twitter hashtag twice more during a Tuesday speech opposing an increase in student loan interest rates. For good measure, he even had his Chapel Hill …