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3:55 AM ET, January 18, 2013

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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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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.
Jack Shafer:
Manti Te'o and the press get blitzed  —  Deadspin's exposé of Notre Dame star linebacker Manti Te'o's nonexistent girlfriend — which does double duty as an exposé of the dozens of news outlets that accepted his word that she had been injured in a car wreck and then died of leukemia …
Discussion: Deadspin, VICE and BuzzFeed
Jim Romenesko:
Keep in mind: Reporters are no longer given time to report  —  From DIANE WERTS: Subject — One thing nobody brings up about Te'o reporting.  I'm a former Newsday editor/critic who took a buyout after 22 years at the paper in 2008 — long enough to blog, but before all the Twitter/Facebook fun.
Discussion: Associated Press
Steve Buttry / The Buttry Diary:
Linking and checklists could have prevented journalists from Manti Te'o ‘girlfriend’ hoax embarrassment
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
Deadspin's Burke: Te'o story shows ‘diminished role’ of investigative journalism
Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
New Tribune CEO Peter Liguori sees opportunity to grow  —  Peter Liguori is Tribune's new CEO.  —  In its first board of directors meeting since emerging from a protracted bankruptcy, Tribune Co. named investor Bruce Karsh as chairman and veteran entertainment executive Peter Liguori as chief executive.
Ed Pilkington / Guardian:
Bradley Manning denied chance to make whistleblower defence  —  Judge rules that Manning will not be allowed to present evidence about his motives for the leak - a key plank of his defence  —  Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of being behind the largest leak of state secrets in America's history …
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.
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 …
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Hearst begins shipping magazines on Apple's Newsstand before anywhere else  —  Apple and Hearst have struck a deal to offer 20 of the publishing organization's magazines on the iOS Newsstand before they're available in print or via other outlets, reports The Loop.
Discussion: AllThingsD, The Loop, CNET and GigaOM
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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Rolling Stone finally comes to iPad, with buy links to iTunes
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Lawrence Wright Publisher Defends Book Against Church Of Scientology Claims  —  NEW YORK — The Church of Scientology has been thinking for some time how to handle Lawrence Wright's highly-anticipated book hitting shelves Thursday, “Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief.”
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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.
Discussion: BuzzFeed and newsplexer
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Winfrey's Low-Rated Channel Is Poised to Break Through  —  Last Tuesday afternoon, Oprah Winfrey called the co-presidents of her cable channel OWN with jump-on-the-couch-with-joy news.  “Lance wants to talk,” she said, referring to Lance Armstrong, whom she had been courting for a confessional interview …
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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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Wikipedia plans to expand mobile access around the globe with new funding
Discussion: Knight Foundation
Calvin Reid / PublishersWeekly.com:
Penguin Revamps Book Country, Adds Services, Reduces Cost to Authors  —  Book Country, an online writing community and self-publishing service launched by Penguin in 2011, is relaunching and redesigning the site in stages.  The Book Country self-publishing site will relaunch today with reduced fees …
Discussion: GalleyCat
Michael Martinez / CNN:
Pauline Phillips, longtime Dear Abby advice columnist, dies at 94  —  (CNN) — Pauline Phillips, better known to millions of newspaper readers as the original Dear Abby advice columnist, has died after a long battle with Alzheimer's Disease, her family said Thursday.
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: paidContent
 
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Dan Sabbagh / @dansabbagh:
Spoken to a banker at one of the firms named in the Telegraph FT for sale piece and he says not us. You can buy FT off me for £1bn instead.
BuzzFeed:
Lance Armstrong's Last Legacy Is A Content Farm
Michael Miner / Chicago Reader:
On the Tribune covering the Tribune
Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM and LA Observed
Al Gore:
Worrisome Change to the New York Times' Ability to Cover Climate
Chris Hughes / The New Republic:
Chris Hughes Introduces The New New Republic
Discussion: @alexismadrigal
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
The Sun's 22nd journalist arrested under Operation Elveden
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Choire Sicha / The Awl:
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
News Corp. earnings calls got boring after Rupert Murdoch left them, but Twitter offers consolation
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Advance Publications Buys Digital Agency Pop To Assist Transition to Digital
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and GeekWire
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
New magazine launches in London