Mediagazer: Christie Calls Reporter ‘Idiot’ and ‘Stupid’ at Press Conference (Shushannah Walshe/ABC News)

7:05 AM ET, July 3, 2012

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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:

Anderson Cooper: “The Fact Is, I'm Gay.” — Last week, Entertainment Weekly ran a story on an emerging trend: gay people in public life who come out in a much more restrained and matter-of-fact way than in the past. In many ways, it's a great development: we're evolved enough not to be gob-smacked when we find out someone's gay.

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Fake NYT obmudsman Twitter account tricks some journalists — When CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper came out as gay on Monday morning, it set Twitter loose with another round of jokes about CNN's Supreme Court reporting mistake last week. — Related: The ethics of fake Twitter accounts (Atlantic Wire)

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Anderson Cooper Comes Out As TV's First Openly Gay Prime Time Anchor

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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Coming Out Could Be Anderson Cooper's Best Career Move Yet

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Another tabloid vet leaves for to DNAinfo — DNAinfo, the neighborhood news website funded by billionaire TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts, has added yet another journalist from the city's tabloids to its masthead. James Fanelli, an assistant city editor at the Daily News …

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Weather Channel buys Weather Underground; brand stays — The largest weather news and information provider is about to get bigger. The Weather Channel Companies (TWCC), parent of the cable network and weather.com, is acquiring San Francisco-based Weather Underground with a pledge to keep the oldest internet weather brand going.

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Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

HBO Renews ‘The Newsroom’ — HBO has renewed “The Newsroom” for a second season after only two episodes, the premium cable channel says. — The series, from creator Aaron Sorkin, follows cable news anchor Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) and his team at Atlantis Cable News.

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Alex Klein / The Daily Beast:

At Dow Jones, It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Bloomberg — A News Corp. split, a new CEO, new plans to grow the data business. What's in store for the Murdoch's crown jewel? — As Rupert Murdoch splits up News Corp, many say he's aiming to separate the wheat from the chaff …

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Shushannah Walshe / ABC News:

Christie Calls Reporter ‘Idiot’ and ‘Stupid’ at Press Conference — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, known for his tough talking style, snapped at a reporter because he asked a question unrelated to the nature of the press conference. Reporters were told to keep the questions on topic …

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Eric Newton / Knight Foundation:

A nonprofit news organization ‘on stable footing’ — Some good news came the other day that is symbolic of the hard work fledgling nonprofit news organizations are doing to put their digital newsrooms on more stable footing. The story came in the form of an official report on grant …

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

The BBC outlines its plans to push ‘Red Button’ online — When discussing the BBC's digital services, iPlayer and its website will likely feature highly in the conversation agenda. But what about the BBC Red Button? — First introduced in 1999 as BBC Text, the Red Button constitutes part …

Rebecca Shapiro / The Huffington Post:

Bill Geist Parkinson's Disease: CBS Legend, Willie Geist Father Reveals Diagnosis — CBS “Sunday Morning” correspondent Bill Geist revealed that he has been been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. — Geist made the announcement on Sunday, in response to viewers wondering what he's been up to recently.

Steve Myers / Poynter:

Landman: Multitasking partly to blame for Alessandra Stanley's errors in Ann Curry story — New York Times Culture Editor Jonathan Landman said he and Executive Editor Jill Abramson accept some of the responsibility for Alessandra Stanley's mistakes in a story last week about Ann Curry's farewell episode of the “Today” show.

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The Huffington Post:

Announcing the HuffPost Pollster API — As the presidential race heats up, Americans are increasingly turning to political polls to try to understand the current opinions of the electorate. With that scrutiny, have come calls for greater transparency, both for pollsters and for those who aggregate …

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab

Jim Romenesko:

Chicago Tribune and fake bylines — “While I share the Trib's outrage at Journatic's use of false bylines, I take their umbrage with a grain of salt,” writes a former newspaper editor who asks to remain anonymous.