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Nat Ives / AdAge:
Newsweek's Anti-Obama Cover Set to Be a Newsstand Hit — Newsweek received withering and widespread criticism over its “Hit the Road, Barack” cover story by Niall Ferguson. The magazine had become “an august publication letting itself be used to misinform readers,” critics said …
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Forbes and New York Magazine
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Why can't we just admit that journalists are human? — Should journalists be allowed to have opinions? If so, when and where — and how — should they be allowed to express them? Such questions have been a thorn in the side of the traditional media industry almost since the web was invented …
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The Maynard Institute …, Politico and Los Angeles Times
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
ABC News Veteran Sam Donaldson: David Chalian Is ‘Not Damaged Goods’
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Erik Wemple and mediabistro.com
Jack Shafer / Reuters:
Column: Why the Yahoos at Yahoo were wrong to fire David Chalian
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NewsBusters.org blogs
Reuters:
US grants asylum to Ecuadorean journalist — Columnist who fled to Miami after being ordered to pay millions in libel case pushed by President Correa can stay in US — A newspaper columnist who fled Ecuador after he was sentenced to jail and ordered to pay millions of dollars …
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Adrian Chen / Gawker:
Anonymous Leaks Secret New York Times Correspondences That Reveal Reporters' Shocking Competence — Anonymous declared war on the New York Times this week, launching “OpNYT” on Wednesday. Unlike most actions by the crippled hacktivist collective these days, their attack on the Times …
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Pastebin.com, Betabeat and New York Times
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Why News Organizations Spent Millions At The RNC — The CNN Grill cost about $2 million, a source says. Marketing for media, as well as the party. — Piers Morgan interviews the Romney sons at the CNN Grill. Source: i2.cdn.turner.com — Political conventions represent …
John Hudson / The Atlantic Wire:
Navy SEAL Author Rejects the Pentagon's Legal Threat — Former Navy SEAL author Matt Bissonnette is going to tell his version of events surrounding the death of Osama bin Laden, even if the Pentagon sues him for every last penny. — Last night, the Defense Department's top attorney wrote …
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New York Times, Associated Press and Bloomberg
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Phil Stewart / Reuters:
Exclusive: Pentagon threatens legal action over bin Laden book
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New York Magazine and Washington Post
Justin Elliott / ProPublica:
Watergate Journalist Carl Bernstein Spoke at Event Supporting Iranian ‘Terrorist’ Group — On a Saturday afternoon last February, journalist Carl Bernstein got up on stage at the grand ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan and delivered a speech questioning the listing …
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@davidfolkenflik, Big News Network.com and @felixsalmon
Jim Romenesko:
Patch loses communications director Janine Iamunno — Janine Iamunno was one of Patch's biggest supporters/defenders (a Patch logo tattoo, Janine?), and she knew what she was up against: “We're used to intense media scrutiny and speculation, more often inaccurate than not,” she told me in February.
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@adammatthewrich and Business Insider
Erik Wemple:
Fact-checking renegade: Los Angeles Times — A few years back, the Los Angeles Times considered joining a runaway industry trend. Everywhere you clicked on the political web, it seemed, someone was putting the drywall and paint on a stand-alone, cleverly branded fact-checking machine …
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Jack Shafer, CBS New York and GigaOM
Borys Kit / Hollywood Reporter:
Charlize Theron, Thunder Road to Produce Film About Slain War Reporter (Exclusive) — The actress is in talks with Basil Iwanyk's company to produce a project on Marie Colvin, who died in Syria this year. Charlize Theron and producer Basil Iwanyk are teaming up for a film about the life …
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Press Association and Guardian
Craig Silverman / Poynter:
Boston Globe won't identify author of plagiarized editorial — The Boston Globe is unwilling to identify the author of a recent unsigned editorial that plagiarized from a story by NPR affiliate WBUR. — The paper recently placed an editor's note on the editorial that said it …
Foster Kamer / The New York Observer:
The New York Times Can Not Get Rid of Arthur Brisbane Fast Enough — The final print column of Arthur S. Brisbane in his capacity as New York Times Public Editor—a position created in the wake of 2003′s Jayson Blair scandal, only the fourth ombudsman in the paper's history— ran on August 26th.
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@thepubliceditor and The Public Editor's Journal
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
How the Times-Picayune and Nola.com covered Hurricane Isaac — On Wednesday afternoon, as Isaac continued its slow-motion journey over Louisiana, the Times-Picayune dispatched a caravan of trucks from its powerless Howard Avenue facility in New Orleans to Mobile, Ala., where its corporate sibling …
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