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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
The day in government snooping — Journalists were already rattled by the Department of Justice's secret seizure of Associated Press phone records when Ann Marimow's disturbing scoop in The Washington Post about the U.S. Department of Justice investigating Fox News reporter James Rosen hit this weekend.
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Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe — When the Justice Department began investigating possible leaks of classified information about North Korea in 2009, investigators did more than obtain telephone records of a working journalist suspected of receiving the secret material.
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Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:
Here's Fox News' Scathing Statement On The Leak Investigation Into One Of Its Reporters
Here's Fox News' Scathing Statement On The Leak Investigation Into One Of Its Reporters
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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Carney: No comment on James Rosen case
Carney: No comment on James Rosen case
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Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
Justice Dept. Tracked Fox News Reporter James Rosen's Movements, Obtained His Personal Emails
Justice Dept. Tracked Fox News Reporter James Rosen's Movements, Obtained His Personal Emails
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
It's Official: Yahoo Is Buying Tumblr For $1.1B, Vows To Keep It Independent — Yahoo has now officially confirmed that it is buying blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion mostly in cash, after reports on an impending deal first surfaced last week. It says it will keep it as an independent company …
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Marco Arment / Marco.org:
The One-Person Product — In 2006, I moved to New York and started working for David Karp doing web development for various media companies. That fall, in a brief gap before starting a new client, David said that we were going to make a prototype of an idea he'd had for a while.
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Timothy B. Lee / Washington Post:
Yahoo can't decide if it's a media company or a tech company — Yahoo's acquisition of Tumblr for $1.1 billion is a big gamble by Marissa Mayer, the company's recently-hired CEO. The microblogging site is a valuable asset, but media accounts of Mayer's thinking suggest she hasn't come …
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Felix Salmon:
Why Yahoo-Tumblr makes sense
Why Yahoo-Tumblr makes sense
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Lauren Indvik / Mashable:
Yahoo May Bring Ads to Tumblr Blogs — With Permission
Yahoo May Bring Ads to Tumblr Blogs — With Permission
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
WordPress' Mullenweg Claims 72,000 Blog Posts Imported From Tumblr in Just One Hour on Sunday
WordPress' Mullenweg Claims 72,000 Blog Posts Imported From Tumblr in Just One Hour on Sunday
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Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Jann Wenner's Kid Is the New Head of RollingStone.com — Rolling Stone owner Jann Wenner has a knack for picking talent. So we're sure his online staff will give a hearty welcome to their new boss: Jann Wenner's fresh-out-of-college kid. — Gus Wenner, 22, is an amazing media success story.
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New York Times:
Apple's Web of Tax Shelters Saved It Billions, Panel Finds — WASHINGTON — Even as Apple became the nation's most profitable technology company, it avoided billions in taxes in the United States and around the world through a web of subsidiaries so complex it spanned continents …
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
How far did PBS go to avoid offending a sponsor? — Last fall, Alex Gibney, a documentary filmmaker who won an Academy Award in 2008 for an exposé of torture at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan, completed a film called “Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream.”
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Steven T. Jones / sfbg.com:
“One powerful newsroom” pulls back from its San Francisco roots — Locally focused journalism in San Francisco took another big hit today with the announcement that The Bay Citizen — which was founded by the late Warren Hellman in 2009 specifically to augment declining reporting on San Francisco …
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
CIR rebrands California Watch, Bay Citizen
CIR rebrands California Watch, Bay Citizen
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Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
New York Times CEO calls digital pay model “most successful” decision in years — In a speech to Columbia business school graduates, the CEO of the New York Times described the company's role in media disruption. — In a commencement address to business students at Columbia University …
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
NBC News confirms ITV's Deborah Turness as president — Editor of ITV News will be the first female head of a television network news operation in the United States — Deborah Turness, editor of ITV News, has been appointed president of NBC News in the United States. Photograph: Eamonn Mccabe for the Guardian
Lauren Rabaino / 10,000 Words:
Voice Of San Diego Switches To WordPress — And Adds A Bunch Of Other Cool Features — I have long been fascinated by The Voice of San Diego, a membership-based investigative news site in Southern California. Their model is one from which many news organizations can learn …