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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Former New York Times Public Editor Doesn't Recall Bradley Manning's Call — When Pfc. Bradley Manning pled guilty Thursday to ten of 22 charges Thursday in connection with leaking a cache of classified documents to WikiLeaks, he also revealed having first approached three news outlets: the Washington Post, New York Times and Politico.
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Pressing Issues, Firedoglake, Poynter, Wired, Guardian, Daily Dot and Capital New York
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Erik Wemple:
Bradley Manning raises a question: How do you tip off the New York Times? — Last year, a big fight in journo-critic world addressed whether the New York Times should have a correspondent front and center for the trial of Bradley Manning, the famous WikiLeaker.
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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Bradley Manning Tried Going To NY Times, Washington Post, Politico Before Turning To WikiLeaks — WikiLeaks whistleblower Bradley Manning revealed on Thursday that, before turning to Julian Assange's organization, he tried to get the New York Times, Washington Post and Politico interested …
Tim Carmody / The Verge:
Bradley Manning pleads guilty to being Wikileaks source, denies ‘aiding the enemy’
Bradley Manning pleads guilty to being Wikileaks source, denies ‘aiding the enemy’
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Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Firedoglake, Guardian, Politico, @csoghoian, @agolis, 6, The Huffington Post, Associated Press, @davidallengreen, @tcarmody, @attackerman and Globe and Mail
Politico:
Exclusive: The Woodward, Sperling emails revealed — POLITICO's “Behind the Curtain” column last night quoted Bob Woodward as saying that a senior White House official has told him in an email he would “regret” questioning White House statements on the origins of sequestration.
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New York Magazine, BuzzFeed, Gawker, The Huffington Post, New York Times, Erik Wemple, Online NewsHour, New York Magazine, The Daily Caller, Hot Air, Mediaite, Washington Post, CNN, Macleans.ca, The New Yorker Blog, The Daily Beast, New Republic, FishbowlDC, The Dish, The Corsair, Business Insider, Firedoglake, NBCNews.com, The Raw Story, Reuters, American Journalism Review, National Review, TechCrunch, @jeffsonderman, @jamisonfoser, @jamisonfoser, KBIA, Right Turn, @colbyhall, The Week, Chickaboomer, Mother Jones, Forbes, Paul Krugman, @ryanchittum, @johnavlon, @davidfolkenflik, @carr2n, Pressing Issues and @rickklein
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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
A BusinessWeek cover crosses a line — Minorities as greedy grotesqueries fueling a new housing bubble — Bloomberg BusinessWeek is a lot edgier than its predecessor, at least where design is concerned. Sometimes it's too edgy, like when it takes two minutes to read some headline intentionally designed to be barely legible.
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Dylan Stableford / Yahoo! News:
Bloomberg Businessweek editor wishes he hadn't published controversial housing cover
Bloomberg Businessweek editor wishes he hadn't published controversial housing cover
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The New York Observer and Boing Boing
Ron Fournier / National Journal:
Why Bob Woodward's Fight With The White House Matters to You — And why I iced a senior Obama White House official. — The fight between the White House and journalistic legend Bob Woodward is a silly distraction to a major problem: The failure of President Obama and House Republicans to lead the country under a budget deadline.
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Politico, Right Turn, The Huffington Post, Hot Air, Addicting Info, BuzzFeed, New York Magazine, Business Insider, Guardian and The Raw Story
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Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
Ron Fournier's amazing admission about his service to White House officials
Ron Fournier's amazing admission about his service to White House officials
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National Review
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
As Nook revenues plunge, B&N says it's “calibrating” strategy but “committed” to devices — Barnes & Noble had warned investors that its third-quarter Nook earnings would be disappointing. The earnings report was released before the market opened Thursday morning, and indeed, Nook revenues …
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Phil Wahba / Reuters:
Barnes & Noble's Nook, ebook sales fall 25.9 percent in quarter
Barnes & Noble's Nook, ebook sales fall 25.9 percent in quarter
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Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Seeking Alpha and Engadget
Don Jeffrey / Bloomberg:
Dish Loses 3 of 4 Claims Against ESPN in Contract Dispute — Dish Network Corp. (DISH) lost three of four claims it brought against Walt Disney Co. (DIS)'s ESPN over terms of a sports programming contract, as a jury awarded Dish only $4.85 million of the $153 million it sought.
Jim Romenesko:
Who will buy the Los Angeles Times? — Rupert Murdoch? ("[His] people are out there doing their due diligence," says Ken Doctor.) — Aaron Kushner? (A skeptical alt-weekly editor says: “The minute he stops making money, he stops his model railroad.")
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LA Weekly
Jack Shafer:
Goodbye Globe, hello global New York Times — The New York Times Co. has been shedding its non-core assets, smoothing its cost structure, strengthening its balance sheet and rebalancing its portfolio with such haste over the past two years that only a cruel and unusual press critic would urge it to quadruple those efforts.
Jasper Jackson / TheMediaBriefing:
How much could The Guardian make by putting up a paywall? — abandoned its attachment to the free online publishing model and joined the paywall crowd? — It's a long-running question that got a little more attention yesterday following the news that The Guardian had avoided industrial action …
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The National Union …
Kevin Roderick / LA Observed:
Online Journalism Review relaunched by USC Annenberg — The Online Journalism Review fell off my radar, and I suspect that of other news types, when USC Annenberg downsized the reach a bit back in 2008. I'm not sure what OJR has been doing lately. But now USC Annenberg has given it a new look and a new view of its role.
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
John Battelle Replacing Deanna Brown as CEO of Federated Media — Federated Media Publishing, the sprawling blog network that represents such sites as Boing Boing, The Awl, GigaOm and Freakonomics, is in transition. Founder John Battelle is returning to the CEO role, while Deanna Brown …
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John Battelle's Search Blog, AdAge, Federated Media Publishing, TechCrunch and The Next Web
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Print bloodbath: Human Events kills newspaper, dumps staff … Human Events, for decades the lone national conservative newspaper before the Fox era, on Wednesday announced that the grim reaper killing off print publications around the nation has reached its door on Capitol Hill.
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Politico, National Review, NewsMax.com, Washington Times, The National Interest, FishbowlDC, FishbowlDC, The Huffington Post and FishbowlDC
National Union of Journalists:
Greedy Gannett: newspaper group pays shareholders $1.3 billion while UK staff endure pay freeze — Gannett, the American owner of Newsquest, has announced a bumper pay-out to shareholders as its employees on UK papers face another pay freeze this year. — In a statement, Gracia Martore …
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The Drum
Jennifer Saba / Reuters:
AOL picks Susan Lyne to head up its brands, including TechCrunch — (Reuters) - AOL Inc appointed board director Susan Lyne on Thursday to head up its portfolio of brands, including TechCrunch and Mapquest. — Lyne, who is vice chairman of the online clothing flash sale site Gilt.com …
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TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Benzinga, FishbowlNY, TechCrunch, WebProNews, Corporate Intelligence, NetNewsCheck Latest, AllThingsD, @ryanlawler and @rafat
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Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
AOL's Chief Operating Officer to Exit