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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
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
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
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
James Rufus Koren / Los Angeles Times:
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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Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
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
Jim Milliot / Publishers Weekly:
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
Agencia EFE:
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
Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
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 …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
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 Koblin / New York Times:
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
Mattie Kahn / ELLE:
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
Simon Oxenham / Big Think:
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
Tom Phillips / Guardian:
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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