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Tom Huang / Poynter:
Coverage of Japanese citizens' ‘stoic’ response to tragedy both accurate, stereotypical — A master narrative has developed around the media's coverage of Japan's earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, leading us to believe that there are cultural roots in the Japanese citizens' stoic response …
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Future of Journalism
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
On the Media: A small-town reporter's big influence — A black businessman was burned to death in tiny Ferriday, La., in 1964. Justice may finally be served, thanks to the reporting of Stanley Nelson of the weekly Concordia Sentinel. — from ferriday, la.

The Daily Dot Wants to Be the Web's Hometown Paper — People often talk about how the social web makes the Internet seem like a small town, and now former VentureBeat and Valleywag editor Owen Thomas says he wants to give the web “its own hometown newspaper” called The Daily Dot.
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Poynter, The Huffington Post and The Wire, Thanks:davidfg

The More Bill Keller Says, the Worse He Gets — Bill Keller, the editor of America's greatest newspaper, continues to systematically dismantle his professional reputation by writing an unnecessary, vainglorious, and ill-advised column in the New York Times Magazine, in which he demonstrates …
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Runnin' Scared
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Secrecy in Shreds — Last year, Gabriel Schoenfeld, a veteran of the conservative magazine Commentary, published a book that explained how The New York Times could be prosecuted under the Espionage Act. The book said a lot of other things too, but you'll understand why that particular proposition stuck in my mind.
Martin Belam / currybetdotnet:
News innovation isn't just about writing code, it is about how we use that code to tell stories — This blog post is my contribution to the third Carnival of Journalism — Nick Petrie on the Wannabe Hacks blog recently asked why news organisations were only getting to grips with the concept of online community now in 2011.

Icahn, Dish Submit Bids for Blockbuster — Billionaire investor Carl Icahn and satellite-television provider Dish Network Corp. have each submitted bids for Blockbuster Inc. ahead of a bankruptcy court auction next week, said people familiar with the matter.
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GigaOM, Electronista and Voices on All Things Digital
The Huffington Post:
Page Six Lands New Editor — For the first time since longtime editor Richard Johnson left the column, Page Six is getting a male face. — The New York Post's gossip column will welcome Ian Mohr as its deputy editor. — Former Page Six Deputy Editor Paula Froelich tweeted the news Friday morning …
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FishbowlNY
Alfred Hermida / Reportr.net:
Studies find journalists use Twitter for broadcast — The final research paper at the ISOJ focused on how newsrooms were using Twitter. — Dale Blasingame from Texas State University, San Marcos, looked at how Twitter was changing TV news. — He started by saying that a web first approach …

Exclusive: Rebecca Black Fighting Ark Music Factory Over ‘Friday’ — The singer alleges that Ark promised her control of the master recordings — It didn't take long for everyone involved in the Rebecca Black story to start squabbling. Black - whose song “Friday” hit Number 38 …
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