Mediagazer: Scourge of Paraguay's Drug Trade, the Journalist Cándido Figueredo, Is Ready for Retaliation (Simon Romero/New York Times)

12:50 AM ET, June 4, 2012

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Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu

David Carr / New York Times:

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Richard Mullins / Tampa Bay Online:

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Lauren Pond / Washington Post:

Why I watched a snake-handling pastor die for his faith — This is what I saw through my camera lens: Pastor Randy “Mack” Wolford, tossing and turning on the couch in his mother-in-law's West Virginia trailer, suffering from the pain of a rattlesnake bite he had received earlier in the day.

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Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:

As Facebook Puns Dominate News Headlines Worldwide, One Man Is Fighting Back — “Where are Facebook's friends? Stock slide deepens ,” the Associated Press wondered recently. “Facebook's flotation: more pokes than likes ,” The Guardian quipped. “Status change for Facebook's IPO?,” MSNBC questioned.

Simon Romero / New York Times:

Scourge of Paraguay's Drug Trade, the Journalist Cándido Figueredo, Is Ready for Retaliation — GRASPING his semiautomatic Browning handgun, he peeked through the curtains. Then he pondered the images of passers-by on the closed-circuit television screens recording movement in front of his house here.

Discussion: Big News Network.com

Richard Nieva / Fortune:

Tim Stevens is the nicest guy in tech — Not to mention one of the most powerful. The editor in chief of Engadget plays a crucial — if not always acknowledged — role in the $190 billion consumer electronics industry. And, in a cast of blowhards and rascals, he's a different sort of editor …

Rem Rieder / American Journalism Review:

Plagiarism Is Plagiarism — I have a great deal of respect for Marvin Kalb. He had a long and illustrious career as a broadcast journalist. Since then, in a variety of roles at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard, he has been a formidable champion of journalism excellence.

Jonathan Berr / InvestorPlace:

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Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of majority reader revenue — Who would you rather support journalism, advertisers or readers? — It's a new question, one that made less sense to pose just three years ago. Now, though, with major shifts in the news market, it's one to think about.

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM and (Re)Structuring Journalism

Rosa Ramirez / MediaShift:

Tobacco Underground: A Lesson in Collaborating Across Borders — As the most high-profile international collaboration, WikiLeaks offers some interesting lessons about working with news organizations abroad. But it can be difficult to untangle those lessons from the drama that surrounded the story.