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The Inquirer:
Lewis Katz, co-owner of The Inquirer, dies in plane crash — Lewis Katz, 72, co-owner of The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Daily News and Philly.com, died Saturday night in the crash of a private jet at a Massachusetts airfield. — Katz's death was confirmed by Inquirer editor Bill Marimow …
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Associated Press:
Gerry Lenfest says deal for control of Inquirer papers will proceed after death of Lewis Katz — Partner: Inquirer sale will proceed as planned — PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A businessman says he expects the upcoming sale of The Philadelphia Inquirer to proceed despite the death of his partner in a plane crash.
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David Carr / New York Times:
Amazon Absorbing Price Fight Punches — Books, we are told, are relics that have reached their sell-by date, put out by an industry that is a desiccated shell of its former self. — Someone forgot to tell the book business that it was dead. Last Thursday afternoon …
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USA Today, New York Times, @laurahazardowen, @publisherswkly, @carr2n and Slate
Associated Press:
Supreme Court rejects Risen's appeal to avoid being forced to testify and reveal his sources — Justices reject reporter's bid to protect source — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday refused to get involved in the case of a reporter who has been ordered to testify at the trial …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Amid Moves on Shield Laws, Journalist Tells of a 2011 Subpoena Fight — WASHINGTON — A former Fox News journalist disclosed on Thursday that he had been subpoenaed in 2011 for notes and testimony identifying his confidential sources in a leak investigation, adding a new public chapter …
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Boing Boing and Congressman Alan Grayson
Tow Center for Digital Journalism:
User-generated content study shows varied standards of newsrooms, poor labeling and crediting — Tow Center Launches Amateur Footage: A Global Study of User-Generated Content in TV and Online News Output — by Claire Wardle, Sam Dubberley, Pete Brown — Crediting is rare …
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@markfrankel29, @cward1e and Kirk LaPointe's …
Sam Kirkland / Poynter:
Commenters hate HuffPost's new Facebook-only commenting system — The Huffington Post's U.S. site and mobile apps will shift to using only Facebook comments starting Monday at noon, HuffPost CTO Otto Toth announced. — “This is far from an an end to conversation; it's the start of conversation …
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Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Powered by Pano, focused on gaming: Google to announce Android TV at Google I/O in June — Google is about to open up another front in the war for your living room: The company is set to announce the launch of Android TV at its Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco in June …
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The Loop, Business Insider, TechCrunch and The Next Web
Fergus Pitt / Tow Center for Digital Journalism:
Sensor journalism study recommends more reporting, access to data from publicly funded sensors — Sensors and Journalism, A Major Report — Today, the Tow Center is publishing a report about the uses, the opportunities and the risks of sensors and journalism.
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@jseiken and @digiphile
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Fortune And Money Launch New Sites And Split Off From CNN Money — Two of Time Inc.'s business and finance publications, Fortune and Money, are getting new online homes today. — You're probably familiar with the magazines, and you've probably read some of their articles online.
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CNNMoney.com, FishbowlNY, New York Post, Fortune, Capital New York and Talking Biz News
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Journalists say Jay Carney's most notable achievement, is that he did nothing notable — Jay Carney vs. the press — Jay Carney spent three years successfully keeping the press at bay even as reporters grew increasingly disenchanted and adversarial with the administration.
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Roy Peter Clark / Poynter:
What journalists can learn about authorship from Maya Angelou — In 2006 the Canadian scholar Stuart Adam and I co-edited a collection of essays titled “Journalism: The Democratic Craft.” It is a rich — and largely unread — anthology of work that reflects on the key aspects of knowledge …