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How the San Antonio Express-News broke news of Scalia's death — Gary Martin, the government and political editor for the San Antonio Express-News, was working the weekend shift this afternoon when he got a tip from a federal source bearing big news. — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia …
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The New York Observer, New York Post, Slate, MySanAntonio.com, Mediaite, The Hill, @anthonyadornato, @sahilkapur, @susanpage, Advocate, @like2go, @joelmsiegel, @mckaydan, @hopeforvirginia, @dangillmor, @ruralj, @jimmorrill, The TickerThe Ticker, Re/code, Vanity Fair, Business Insider, Forbes, Guardian, Refinery29, Hit & Run, Fast Company, Mother Jones, Talking Points Memo, Fusion, New York's PIX11, The College Fix, The Daily Caller and New York Magazine


How Bloomberg EIC John Micklethwait balances tensions of the terminal business, China, investigative reporting, and covering a possible Bloomberg candidacy — Micklethwait's Balancing Act, After a Year as Bloomberg Editor in Chief — In recent weeks, John Micklethwait …
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@mlcalderone, @joepompeo, @poynter and @dangillmor


Tribune Publishing, Digital First Media bid to buy bankrupt O.C. Register — Bidders interested in acquiring Freedom Communications, the bankrupt owner of the Orange County Register, had until Friday to submit initial offers. An auction is scheduled for next month.
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L.A. Daily News, Orange County Register and Denver Business Journal
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CIR's StoryWorks project creates stage adaptations of investigative journalism — Investigative journalism finds a new outlet: the stage — KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The two uniformed jail guards argued angrily, cursed each other, then erupted into a nasty brawl with punches and furniture and bodies flying.
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@cironline and @mtfarnsworth


Bookstore sales rose 2.5% to $11.17B in 2015, the first increase since 2007 — After Eight Year Slump, 2015 Bookstore Sales Rise — Bookstores sales rose 2.5% in 2015, marking the first time since 2007 that sales in the sector were up. According to preliminary figures released …
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@peterturner, New York Times and CNNMoney

Veracruz governor links Zetas drug cartel boss Josele Marquez to death of journalist Anabel Flores Salazar and 2011 attack on offices of El Buen Tono newspaper — Zetas cartel boss ordered Mexican reporter's killing, governor says — Josele Marquez, a regional Zetas drug cartel boss arrested earlier …
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Reuters and telesurtv.net


Copyright lawyer uses DMCA to try to take down copy of unflattering article about himself — Embattled copyright lawyer uses DMCA to remove article about himself — Marc Randazza tells Wordpress that the unflattering story “is not fair use.” — Well-known copyright lawyer Marc Randazza used …


Q&A with Boston Globe election reporter James Pindell on digital-first reporting, using platforms, and staying online — James Pindell is trying to bring The Boston Globe's election coverage to everyone by being everywhere — In the past five days, Boston Globe political reporter …
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@niemanlab


John Dickerson, Molded by News Legends, Hones His Skills at CBS — WASHINGTON — By the standards of Sunday morning news shows, the handoff of the anchor's position on “Face the Nation” on CBS was really quite peaceful. — A few days after the longtime anchor Bob Schieffer announced …
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@koblin, @saletan and @brianstelter


Meet the girls on the bus: reporters on the campaign trail for NBC in 2016 are overwhelmingly women — At NBC News, Women Are Telling the Stories — This Is What NBC News Looks Like in 2016 — The cameras have stopped rolling in the Des Moines café that Andrea Mitchell has turned …
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@nickconfessore, @katyturnbc, @mlcalderone, @meetthepress, @jacquellenac, @halliejackson and @kristindonnelly


Inside Sci-Hub, which bypasses journal paywalls to give access to academic work and plans to continue despite legal pressure — Meet the Robin Hood of Science — The tale of how one researcher has made nearly every scientific paper ever published available for free to anyone, anywhere in the world.
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@venkatananth, @ivovegter, @quasilocal, @metlandia, @jayrosen_nyu, Fusion and @tumblrisms


China's young reporters give up on journalism: 'You can't write what you want' — The ever greater constraints placed on news reporting by Xi Jinping mean many Chinese journalists see no point in pursuing a media career — hen a 7.9-magnitude earthquake ripped through Sichuan province in May 2008 …
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@marklittlenews, Thanks:@refsrc