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Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
Deadspin's editor-in-chief explains editing, reporting behind Manti Te'o story — Deadspin Editor-in-Chief Tommy Craggs says Timothy Burke and Jack Dickey were faced with a tough question when reporting their now famous Manti Te'o story: “What lengths do we go to to try and prove a negative?”
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The Dan Patrick Show, The Huffington Post, Deadspin, Slate, BuzzFeed, Sports World Report and Salon
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Steve Buttry / The Buttry Diary:
Linking and checklists could have prevented journalists from Manti Te'O ‘girlfriend’ hoax embarrassment — Last year I blogged about four reasons linking is good journalism. Make it five. — Journalists who practice thorough linking to provide context and attribution for their stories …
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Zombie Journalism, Washington Post, Law Blog, JIMROMENESKO.COM, BuzzFeed, Globe and Mail, The Atlantic Wire, TVNewser and Mashable!
Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
Reporting in The Times on Football Star's Nonexistent Girlfriend Was Glancing, but Still Troubling — The truly strange - and still unfolding - tale of the Notre Dame football star and his nonexistent dead girlfriend has lessons for journalists, including those at The Times.
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Guardian, msnbc.com, Los Angeles Times, L.A. NOW and PopWatch
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
Deadspin's Burke: Te'o story shows ‘diminished role’ of investigative journalism — Deadspin's widely circulated report on Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o's began with a tip. Timothy Burke and Jack Dickey got an anonymous email last week saying: “Hey, you know, something is fishy …
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10,000 Words, BuzzFeed, Tampa Bay Times, The Daily Beast, New Yorker, Mashable!, Guardian, Globe and Mail, Take Two, @amzam and @nicknotned
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Notre Dame football player Te'o girlfriend hoax 'became truth through the media"
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ESPN, Deadspin, Poynter, Deadspin, Slate, Gawker, Betabeat, CNN, The Informer, The Wrap, New Yorker, Forbes, TVNewser, VH1 Celebrity, Yahoo! News, The Daily Beast, FishbowlNY, Christian Science Monitor, The Boston Globe, Poynter, The Huffington Post and Speakeasy
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Knight News Challenge funds photography app with built-in verification data — A mobile app that will help amateur journalists send photos to news organizations securely and with embedded verification data is among eight projects funded by the latest Knight News Challenge grants.
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Byron Tau / Politico:
Survey: Users trust social media as news source — Voter trust in political information from Facebook, Twitter and other social media services is now on par with that in traditional news sources, according to a new survey shared with POLITICO. — Recent years have seen candidates increasingly devoting …
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newsplexer and @michaelroston
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Rolling Stone finally comes to iPad, with buy links to iTunes — In a May 2011 interview with AdAge, Rolling Stone founder and publisher Jann Wenner memorably described magazine publishers' embrace of the iPad as “premature” and spurred by “sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.”
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FishbowlNY, CNET, Engadget, Mashable!, App Advice and Good E-Reader
Choire Sicha / The Awl:
Take A Minute To Watch The New Way We Make Web Headlines Now — The great menace in headlines in 2011 was that either every headline was “11 Ways to X” or that it was “Y Happens to Z [SLIDESHOW].” You know, whatever our pals at Business Insider and Huffington Post's Celebrity Sideboob's page were doing.
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BuzzFeed and newsplexer
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Tinypass, Andrew Sullivan's Favorite Paywall Operator, Gets a CEO and Some Cash — Big month for Tinypass, the little company that helps publishers sell content online. — On Jan. 2, blogger Andrew Sullivan announced with much fanfare that he was using Tinypass to power his experiment in self-publishing …
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paidContent, NetNewsCheck Latest, Mashable and Poynter
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Amazon opens music store for Apple devices, songs start at 69 cents — Amazon is making another major push to chip away at Apple's dominance in online music with the launch of an MP3 store optimized for devices like the iPhone and the iPod touch. The store, with a catalogue of 22 million songs …
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Media Decoder, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, CNET, GeekWire and Electronista
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
YouTube Is Ready to Invest in Vevo, but the Deal Isn't Done — YouTube is set to make another big investment in a content partner. This time around it's Vevo, the music video site. — YouTube and its owner Google have agreed to buy a minority stake in Vevo, according to people familiar with the deal, which hasn't been finalized.
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Guardian, paidContent, Fast Company, Softpedia News, The Next Web, Business Insider and CNET
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Advance Publications Buys Digital Agency Pop To Assist Transition to Digital — Agency Will Continue to Operate Independently — Advance Publications, parent company of Conde Nast and magazines like Wired, Vogue and Vanity Fair, has acquired Pop, a digital ad agency based in Seattle.
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NetNewsCheck Latest and GeekWire
Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:
Aaron Swartz's embattled prosecuting attorney releases first statement, says conduct was ‘appropriate’ — US Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz is breaking the silence on her office's prosecution of Aaron Swartz. After extending her sympathy to those affected by Swartz's death …
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Guardian, bizjournals, The Next Web, SlashGear, Techdirt and The Huffington Post
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
TMZ video of murder condemned by victim's family — Family brands US gossip website ‘disgusting’ for posting video of man's murder during brawl outside Hollywood club — The family of a man shot dead in a brawl outside a Hollywood nightclub have condemned the US gossip website TMZ as …
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International Business Times
Issandr El Amrani / The Arabist:
Should Journalists Interview People As They Are Being Tortured? — I would think probably not, but the editor of The Atlantic apparently thinks that's ok: … It'd be one thing if the journalist had witnessed the torture. But he appears to have been given the interview opportunity …
Dave Itzkoff / ArtsBeat:
Biden Getting an Autobiography From The Onion (Whether He Wants It or Not) — “Hombre, you've just done Uncle Joe a real solid buying this book,” begins the foreword to a new autobiography attributed to Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. “I ain't the kind of guy who forgets his debts.
Alexander C. Kaufman / The Wrap:
BuzzFeed Story on Gun-Toting Journalists Infuriates Reporters (Updated) — BuzzFeed political editor McKay Coppins has a target on his back after posting a story Thursday that turned a sardonic eye on the shooting range trips of a cadre of well-known New York journalists.
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BuzzFeed, The Atlantic Wire, Mediaite, Capital New York, @antderosa, @weareyourfek and @antderosa
Choire Sicha / The Awl:
‘Newsweek’ Takes Bold Stance Against Tumblr's Struggle for Profit — The Tumblr of Newsweek, which still exists, unlike Newsweek, and which is run by the DailyBeast “senior editor for social media,” announced a new policy yesterday. “You pin, we unfollow” was the communiqué—by …
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DCeiver and newsweek.tumblr.com
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Philly Guild, owners find room to negotiate — The Newspaper Guild of Greater Philadelphia and Interstate General Media “agreed to begin early bargaining on a new contract,” Guild Executive Director Bill Ross and Acting President Howard Gensler tell members in an email.
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