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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.
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AdAge, ESPN, Forbes, CNN, The Informer, Law Blog, Gawker and Pressing Issues
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 …
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 …
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.
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Associated Press
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
Deadspin's Burke: Te'o story shows ‘diminished role’ of investigative journalism
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Outsports, Tampa Bay Times, Gawker, Erik Wemple, ComPost, TVNewser, L.A. NOW, The New Yorker Blog, The Daily Beast, @nicknotned, Take Two, Globe and Mail, Yahoo! News, @amzam, The Huffington Post and Speakeasy
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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GigaOM, AllThingsD, CNET, Mashable!, App Advice, FishbowlNY, Engadget and Good E-Reader
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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Hearst begins shipping magazines on Apple's Newsstand before anywhere else
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The Loop
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 …
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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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.
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Chicago Tribune, The Wrap, Broadcasting & Cable and tribune.com
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
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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@michaelroston and newsplexer
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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Mobutu Sese Seko / Gawker:
Journalism, Scientology, and Manti Te'o: Finding the Leper with the Most Fingers
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The Huffington Post, The Daily Caller and VH1 Celebrity
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.
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Mediaite, ABCNEWS and The Huffington Post
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, Mashable and Poynter
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
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, Soup, The Atlantic Wire, Capital New York, @antderosa, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, @weareyourfek and @antderosa
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 …
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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.
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TMZ.com, The Wrap, Pop Culture, The Huffington Post, Bloomberg, Associated Press, ComPost, Los Angeles Times, NY Daily News, Reuters, Us Weekly, Toronto Star, Voice of America, ABCNEWS, ABCNEWS and The Daily Beast
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, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, CNET, GeekWire, Pocket-lint, Digital Media Wire and Electronista
BuzzFeed:
Lance Armstrong's Last Legacy Is A Content Farm — His career is over, and his reputation in shambles. But Livestrong.com, a health and fitness website founded with his support, surges on. In 2008, Livestrong — the cancer awareness and survivorship foundation originally created by Lance Armstrong …
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