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The day in government snooping

Andrew Beaujon — Mon, 20 May 2013 21:01:18 +0000

Journalists were already rattled by the Department of Justice’s secret seizure of Associated Press phone records when Ann Marimow’s disturbing scoop in The Washington Post about the U.S. Department of Justice investigating Fox News reporter James Rosen hit this weekend. … Read more

Border newspaper stops covering cartels after repeated attacks

Joshua Gillin — Mon, 20 May 2013 19:20:31 +0000

Los Angeles Times | Committee to Protect Journalists | Texas Observer | Wired

Escalating cartel violence in Mexico has led to bouts of self-censorship among journalists fearing reprisals, but few so prominently as Nuevo Laredo’s El Mañana, which has decided … Read more

NYT CEO: ‘Prophets’ were incorrect about paywalls

Andrew Beaujon — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:31:14 +0000

At Columbia Business School Sunday, New York Times Co. President and CEO Mark Thompson spoke to new MBAs about “conventional wisdom and all the apparently excellent advice that flows from it.”

Take my industry. The movies are finished. … Read more

Yahoo buys Tumblr, DOJ targeted another reporter: Morning links

Andrew Beaujon — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:24:40 +0000

• YAHOO WILL BUY TUMBLR “Per the agreement and our promise not to screw it up, Tumblr will be independently operated as a separate business,” a Yahoo announcement this morning says. The acquisition cost Yahoo $1.1 billion, “substantially … Read more

CIR rebrands California Watch, Bay Citizen

Andrew Beaujon — Mon, 20 May 2013 11:19:51 +0000

The Center for Investigative Reporting

Content from California Watch and The Bay Citizen will be published under the Center for Investigative Reporting brand beginning May 29, CIR’s executive director Robert J. Rosenthal announced Monday.

Initially, the different brands separated our
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NYT site ‘was subjected to denial of service attacks’ this week

Andrew Beaujon — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:32:46 +0000

New York Times’ site “was subjected to denial of service attacks” this week… Read more

Study: Twitter ‘has a distinct geographic profile’ from mainstream media

Andrew Beaujon — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:05:34 +0000

First Monday | Smithsonian | floatingsheep

A study of the “geography of Twitter” compares, among many other data sets, what it calls “Twitter versus mainstream news media.” This part of Kalev Leetaru, Shaowen Wang, Guofeng Cao, Anand Padmanabhan … Read more

Patch gets new CEO, lays off staffers

Andrew Beaujon — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:37:48 +0000

All Things D

Steve Kalin is Patch’s new CEO, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong told Patch employees in an email Friday. Patch will also make several motions that Armstrong writes will “move Patch meaningfully toward profitability.” Among them: layoffs.

The
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AP photographer has chronicled several presidents’ ‘umbrella problems’

Andrew Beaujon — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:04:47 +0000

It’s been a rough week for President Obama, whose administration is facing a trio of controversies. On Thursday, he created one more: A U.S. Marine held an umbrella for the president while he gave a press conference with Turkish … Read more

Stephen Colbert, Arianna Huffington among this weekend’s commencement speakers

Andrew Beaujon — Fri, 17 May 2013 16:34:56 +0000

Stephen Colbert is scheduled to speak Saturday at the University of Virginia. Arianna Huffington will speak at Smith College Sunday.

They’re among the many journalists who’ve spoken or are scheduled to speak at commencement ceremonies this spring, as many … Read more