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Hillary Clinton Aide Tells Reporter To “F**k Off” And “Have A Nice Life” — On Sunday morning, BuzzFeed correspondent Michael Hastings emailed Philippe Reines, Hillary Clinton's longtime aide and personal spokesman at the State Department, asking a series of pointed questions about State's handling …
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Amid Criticism, CNN Defends Reporting on Ambassador's Journal
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TVNewser


Print Sex Ads Will Remain at Newly-Formed Voice Media Group — Backpage.com may be gone, but sex ads are here to stay at the alt weeklies formerly owned by Village Voice Media. Over the weekend, Village Voice Media announced it had reshuffled and separated its 13 newspapers from Backpage.com …
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Capital New York and New York Post
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The Village Voice's synthetic solution to a synthetic sex ad scandal
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Gawker

Village Voice Management Buyout Leaves Backpage.com Behind
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The Atlantic Wire, voicemediagroup.com, FishbowlNY, The Raw Story, Forbes and TechCrunch

Village Voice spins off Backpage.com
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New York Magazine, Deadline.com, NYConvergence.com and Guardian


On Margaret Wente, plagiarism, and the Globe's public editor-cum-union rep — It's tough to pick the most discreditable aspect of Globe and Mail Public Editor Sylvia Stead's train wreck response to serious allegations of journalistic malpractice against columnist Margaret Wente. There are so many contenders.
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Macleans.ca and Plagiarism Today
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Canadian columnist accused of plagiarism — One of Canada's leading newspaper columnists has been accused of plagiarism. After extensive and detailed research by a blogger, Globe & Mail writer Margaret Wente was alleged to have reproduced other people's work in several columns (see here).
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John Gordon Miller's Blog, Plagiarism Today and Macleans.ca


Willie Geist to Co-Host Third Hour of ‘Today’ — Willie Geist, a co-host of the rollicking MSNBC morning show “Morning Joe,” is moving over to NBC's flagship “Today” show as a co-host of the franchise's 9 a.m. hour. — The promotion is expected to be announced by NBC this week …
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TVNewser, Deadline.com, Mediaite, Broadcasting & Cable, The Wrap, Inside Cable News and The Huffington Post

Broadcasters get unlikely support from Cablevision in Aereo case — Cablevision has thrown its support behind major U.S. broadcast networks in their bid to stop Aereo Inc, an online television start-up backed by billionaire Barry Diller, from broadcasting TV programming over the Internet.
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Deadline owner Penske likely to buy Variety — Daily Variety will soon be acquired by Penske Media, the owner of Deadline.com. (Variety website / September 24, 2012) — Hollywood's 107-year-old industry trade publication Variety and 6-year-old online competitor Deadline …


Konkol leaves Sun-Times to write for DNAInfo Chicago — Mark Konkol, the Chicago journalism superstar who won the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting last year, is leaving the Sun-Times to join the startup of a hyperlocal digital news service covering city neighborhoods.

Exit interview: Brisbane says New York Times Public Editor job is ‘not a conversation’ — Arthur Brisbane's New York Times email address has been shut off, and he sounds pretty happy about it. — “I'm trying to decompress,” he told me two days after his stint as the fourth public editor of The New York Times came to an end.
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FishbowlNY


The New York Times Union Contemplates a Collective Chant in the Lobby — or a Public Demo — Just before noon today, a stream of about 200 New York Times staffers left the company's headquarters at 620 Eighth Avenue, heading for the local hotel workers union a few blocks north.


YouTube Expands Translation Tools For Video Captions To 300+ Languages — YouTube just announced that it is now making it easier for video creators to translate their video captions to more than 300 languages by integrating the YouTube Video Manager with the Google Translator Toolkit.
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YouTube Creator Blog, CNET and Engadget


‘NY Post’ gifts Ahmadinejad with Jew-themed basket — Publication offers visiting Iranian president Manischewitz, Gefilte Fish, I ♥ New York underwear hoping he will lose “bloodthirst.” — The New York Post on Sunday offered Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a basket brimming …
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New York Post, The Jewish Week, @shreeyasinha, Piers Morgan and The Inquisitr


Taxing Broadband to Save Journalism is One Big, Stupid Idea — We Need a Thousand Small, Smart Ones — David Leigh was first to be right about many things. — He was first to identify the potential of WikiLeaks to revolutionize transparency in the digital age.
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Charlie Beckett, on, Big News Network.com and Guardian
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A broadband levy to fund journalism? Now that's a very clever idea
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The Wall Blog, Techdirt, @digidickinson, GigaOM, AndyDickinson.net, @benedictevans and paidContent


Homicide Watch DC wins Online Journalism Award for public service — Crime reporting site Homicide Watch DC, which recently crowdfunded more than $40,000 to secure its survival through the creation of a student reporting lab, was named as one of the winners of the Online Journalism Awards at the weekend.
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MediaShift and Big News Network.com
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The Trentonian unveils Homicide Watch
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Digital First Media