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John M. Broder / New York Times:
That Tesla Data: What It Says and What It Doesn't — The Model S at the Tesla Supercharger in the Interstate 95 service plaza in Milford, Conn. — Elon Musk , the chief executive of Tesla Motors, has now responded in detail to the account of my test drive of his Model S electric car …
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David Edwards / The Raw Story:
CNN shoots down ‘New York Times’ by taking Tesla road trip: 'It wasn't that hard' — CNN took on The New York Times' scathing review of Tesla's Model S by driving the same route with no problems and determining that the trip “wasn't that hard.” — Electric car manufacturer Tesla …
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Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
Conflicting Assertions Over an Electric Car Test Drive — Let me get this out of the way up front: This blog post will not be the definitive word on the contentious subject of a Times article in Sunday's Automobiles section. It's just an early effort to put some claims and counterclaims out there, while I continue to look into it.
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Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:
Valentine's Day Bloodbath: WaPo Lays Off Workers in Hush-Hush Manner — On Thursday, Valentine's Day, WaPo officially discussed the circumstances surrounding the layoffs of employees, FishbowlDC sources have learned. Internal sources appropriately place the number at 54, though a publicist hasn't confirmed the exact number.
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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Did Time Warner Really Try to Buy China's Help Fighting Piracy With Free Movies? — Rampant copyright piracy in Asia, especially in China, is a massive and intractable problem for the software, entertainment and luxury industries. Western countries simply don't have enough leverage to compel …
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Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Judge allows case over HuffPo ownership to go forward, adds fraud claim — In a major development in the bitter court fight over the founding of the Huffington Post, a New York judge has for the second time refused the request of media moguls Arianna Huffington and Ken Lerer to dismiss the case.
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Marina Hyde / Guardian:
Reeva Steenkamp's corpse was in the morgue, her body was on the Sun's front page — The Oscar Pistorius case has been called a tragedy for South Africa, for sport, for disability rights ... but what about the victim and her family? To parts of the media, she is just hot
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Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
Can The Guardian Become a Big U.S. Force? — The Guardian waited 190 years before taking its left-leaning brand of journalism to the U.S. And it decided to make its splash in a very modern way: through an online-only operation. — The Guardian is presenting its premium content in a crowded marketplace.
Andrew Pugh / PressGazette:
Trinity's ‘Newsroom 3.0’ plan rolls out nationwide — Journalists working across all Trinity Mirror's regional papers are bracing themselves for the introduction of a new working model called “Newsroom 3.0”. — The new model was originally trialled in the publisher's North Wales newsroom …
Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal:
More Cash for Covers — Deal Gives Universal Music a Cut From Ads Alongside Videos — Those cover videos on YouTube could start generating some more revenue for the music industry. — VivendiSA's Universal Music Publishing Group has struck deals with Maker Studios Inc. and Fullscreen Inc. …
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Ki Mae Heussner / paidContent:
In lawsuit with publishers, open textbook startup Boundless hits back — In its ongoing lawsuit with three of the biggest textbook publishers, open textbook startup Boundless is down, but by no means is it out. — Last spring, the Boston-based startup said it had raised $8 million …
Jim Romenesko:
[UPDATED] Jayson Blair got $3,000 to speak at an ethics forum in 2009 — In the fall of 2009, Edward Wasserman invited disgraced journalist Jayson Blair to speak at Washington and Lee University's Journalism Ethics Institute. The title of his talk was “Lessons Learned.” — Did people protest it?
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Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
It's Time to Give Journalistic Criminals Like Jonah Lehrer the Journalistic Death Penalty
It's Time to Give Journalistic Criminals Like Jonah Lehrer the Journalistic Death Penalty
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