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Josh Stearns / CJR:
New Orleans and the future of news — Media policy matters, and journalists ought to weigh in — Last week's announcement that the New Orleans Times-Picayune would be slashing its staff and cutting its print run to just three days a week has sparked a new round of debates about the future of news.
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Harry Shearer / CJR:
The Sometimes Picayune — Want to damage New Orleans (again)? Decimate its newspaper — Here, for your reading pleasure, are two familiar cliches: 1. New Orleans is a unique city. 2. The newspaper business is changing. Several days ago, when it was announced that The Times-Picayune …
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Fortune
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Don't just liquidate your newspapers — reinvent them — As newspaper owners like Newhouse-owned Advance Publications try to stem the cash flowing out of their businesses by shutting down the presses, there are a number of ways to look at their decision. On the one hand, it can be seen …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Dean Baquet Defends New York Times Amid Leak Controversy: 'We Can't Edit A Paper For Our Critics' — NEW YORK — Dean Baquet, managing editor of The New York Times, defended his paper's national security coverage after members of Congress called for an investigation into the leaking …
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Guardian, FishbowlNY, Politico and Politico
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Adam Martin / The Atlantic Wire:
Chuck Klosterman Is The New York Times Magazine's New Ethicist — Update (2:04 p.m. EDT): Klosterman, a music and culture critic best known for his Esquire column Chuck Klosterman's America and the book Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, confirmed via email that he starts his new gig this weekend.
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The 6th Floor, New York Magazine, The Wrap, FishbowlNY, The New York Observer, JIMROMENESKO.COM, New York Times, @felixsalmon, Slate, @mathewi and @max_read
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Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:
Columbia Accepts Assad Aide Who Was Helped by Barbara Walters — The young aide to President Bashar al-Assad of Syria who received an endorsement from the longtime television correspondent Barbara Walters was accepted into a prestigious graduate program at Columbia University, the school said on Thursday.
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New York Magazine, @nahaltoosi, @yousefmunayyer, @jillian_dunham, New York Post, Gothamist, Erik Wemple, Daily Mail and Guardian
Jennifer Saba / Reuters:
Analysis: In scare for newspapers, digital ad growth stalls — (Reuters) - As more newspapers cut back on print to reduce costs and focus on their websites, a troubling trend has emerged: online advertising sales are stalling. — In the first quarter, digital advertising revenue …
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Guardian, PSFK, Gannett Blog and NetNewsCheck Latest
Leonard Downie Jr / Washington Post:
Forty years after Watergate, investigative journalism is at risk — Investigative reporting in America did not begin with Watergate. But it became entrenched in American journalism — and has been steadily spreading around the world — largely because of Watergate.
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JIMROMENESKO.COM
Bloomberg:
As Tribune Nears Exit From Three-Year Bankruptcy, Big Papers Could Sell — Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune Most Likely to Attract ‘Vanity Buyers’ — Tribune Co. begins its last big court fight today, one of two steps remaining before the publisher exits bankruptcy into a newspaper market where values have dropped by half.
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Guardian
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Michael Oneal / Chicago Tribune:
Tribune, creditors to present plan to leave bankruptcy
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LA Observed, L.A. NOW and JIMROMENESKO.COM
Emma Bazilian / Adweek:
‘Entertainment Weekly’ Cuts Staff — Time Inc.'s Entertainment Weekly has cut three editorial staffers in recent weeks, Adweek has learned. A spokeswoman said three junior-level positions were eliminated over the past six weeks and their responsibilities absorbed by existing editorial staffers.
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
B&N: DOJ e-book suit endangers consumers, bookstores and copyrighted expression — In a complaint sent to the Department of Justice this morning, Barnes & Noble says that the DOJ's proposed settlement with HarperCollins, Hachette and Simon & Schuster for allegedly colluding to fix e-book prices …
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Bloomberg, Reuters, Media Decoder, Wall Street Journal, Ars Technica and Digital Book World
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
The ‘Times’ shuffles the deck, again, on the education beat — The journalists who produce The New York Times' education report have seen a fair amount of change in recent months. In February, Jodi Rudoren, the paper's education editor at the time, accepted a new post: To take the place of Ethan Bronner as Jerusalem bureau chief.
Jim Romenesko:
Winners of Livingston Awards announced — The Livingston Awards go to journalists under the age of 35. The prize is $10,000. This year's winners: * Local reporting. Andrew McLemore, 25, of The Williamson County (Texas) Sun for “Until Proven Innocent.” * National reporting.
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