Mediagazer: Google and AP award six $20,000 scholarships to digital journalism students (Jim Romenesko)

2:10 PM ET, June 3, 2013

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Mike Fleming Jr / Deadline.com:

A Personal Note On Nikki Finke From Mike Fleming — Earlier today, I got an urgent e-mail blast from The Wrap about Michael Douglas contracting throat cancer from cunnilingus. It was presented with the same traffic-pandering, classless urgency as similar blasts I've gotten from the same publication …

Discussion: The Wrap, Los Angeles Times, Mediaite, Business Insider, Speakeasy, FishbowlNY, mediabistro.com, LA Observed, @bensheffner and @ckrewson

Nikki Finke / Deadline.com:

Nikki Finke To Sharon Waxman: Just Stop It — Right now I am not going to discuss my Deadline Hollywood contract or my relationship with my boss Jay Penske. Why? Because I don't have to. If that changes, I'll tell you. (I also didn't post about this imbecilic digital ad …

Discussion: New York Post, LA Observed, Poynter and Business Insider

John Cook / Gawker:

Nikki Finke Just Doxxed Herself (and Tried to Undo It) — Reclusive Hollywood rage-blogger Nikki Finke may or may not have been fired from her perch as editor of Deadline Hollywood. Her nemesis Sharon Waxman, over at the Wrap, says Finke has been canned by Mail.com founder Jay Penske after he became fed up with her bullying ways.

Kate Aurthur / BuzzFeed:
What Nikki Finke Has Done

Discussion: Capital New York, Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post and @peterlauria3

Ed Pilkington / Guardian:

Bradley Manning's WikiLeaks trial: what are the key issues at stake? — The US soldier charged with ‘aiding the enemy’ is expected to be on trial for three months, starting today — After 1,100 days in military captivity, Bradley Manning finally goes to trial on Monday, for leaking a trove of state secrets to WikiLeaks.

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Matt Sledge / The Huffington Post:
Media Organizations Urge Military To Allow Stenographers In Bradley Manning Trial

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Luis Martinez / ABC News:
Bradley Manning Court-Martial Starts Today

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

POLITICO hires FP's Susan Glasser to head new long-form journalism, opinion divisions — Some truly game-changing news on the Washington media scene tonight: POLITICO has hired Susan Glasser, the editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy, to serve as editor of new long-form journalism and opinion divisions …

Discussion: Erik Wemple, New York Times, FishbowlDC, The Huffington Post, Prof Chris Daly's Blog, Nieman Journalism Lab and New York Magazine

Bill Carter / New York Times:

Devoted to Politics, MSNBC Slips on Breaking News — At MSNBC they view it as rooting against death and destruction: the last thing the channel wants is more months like the last two, filled with terror bombings, tornadoes and plant accidents. — It's not all altruism.

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

NBC/MSNBC to tap SCOTUSblog publisher — NBC News and MSNBC have announced that they will partner with the publisher of SCOTUSblog, the all-things-Supreme-Court website, for coverage of upcoming rulings. SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein and NBC News Justice correspondent Pete Williams …

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab

Dean Starkman / Columbia Journalism Review:

Exclusive excerpts: ‘The Gestation Period of Llama (Or why I quit The Wall Street Journal)’ — In an new essay, a former investigative reporter explains how a Murdoch-ized operation led her to leave journalism and reinvent herself — Once, dissent was common in American newsrooms.

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Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:

CNN Denies Rumors About Wolf Blitzer Shakeup — CNN is hitting back at rumors about possible changes to Wolf Blitzer's role at the network. — The New York Daily News reported Sunday that Blitzer's on-air time may be reduced as president Jeff Zucker continues his overhaul of programming.

Discussion: Inside Cable News

NY Daily News:
Cryin' Wolf at CNN! Sources say viewers will see less of veteran anchor Wolf Blitzer …

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

AOL's Orphaned Music Sites Find a Home at Townsquare Media — In April, AOL laid off most of the people who worked for its music sites. Now it has let go of the sites, too: Radio chain Townsquare Media Group has picked up three of the portal's music properties, along with one aimed at comic fanboys.

Discussion: Folio, Radio & Television …, CNET, TechCrunch, Billboard, VatorNews and AllAccess.com

LSE Media Policy Project:

Nesta Research: Public Interest High, Advertiser Interest Low for Hyperlocal Media — The future of local media in the UK has been in the limelight recently with the granting of local TV licenses, the House of Lords inquiry into media pluralism and the Newspaper Society supporting PresBoF's …

Discussion: Street Fight

Jim Romenesko:

Google and AP award six $20,000 scholarships to digital journalism students — Recipients of the $20,000 AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarships are Adam Allevato (Colorado State University), Lindsey Cook (University of Georgia), Nonny de la Peña (University of Southern California) …

Dylan Byers / Politico:

WaPo consolidates politics coverage, names Steven Ginsberg senior editor — The Washington Post has named Steven Ginsberg as senior politics editor, overseeing “all politics coverage, regardless of section or platform,” according to a memo from executive editor Marty Baron and his colleagues.