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"There's not the same enthusiasm for the big story," says Webster-Kirkwood Times editor Don Corrigan, who had a reporter witness the shootings at a city council meeting two years ago. "We just recently had another workplace shooting here in St. Louis -- three were killed, five were injured -- and nobody wanted to really take on that assignment." || More "OTM" audio and transcripts.
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News Journal evacuated
After small fire breaks out.
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SI Swimsuit Issue
A billion-dollar franchise.
(MarketWatch)

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Harper's web editor
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(TheAwl.com)

USAT's "Smokestack Effect" wins again
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Feb. 9, 2010

People prefer e-mailing articles with positive rather than negative themes
New York Times
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They also like to send long articles on intellectually challenging topics, according to two University of Pennsylvania researchers. "Perhaps most of all, readers wanted to share articles that inspired awe, an emotion that the researchers investigated after noticing how many science articles made the list," writes John Tierney.
Posted at 8:01 AM on Feb. 9, 2010
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Shafer finds more examples of plagiarism by Posner
Slate
Daily Beast investigative reporter Gerald Posner lifted from Texas Lawyer, a Miami Herald blog, a Miami Herald editorial, a Miami Herald article, and a health care journalism blog, according to Jack Shafer. The Daily Beast has suspended Posner while it reviews his articles.
Posted at 7:39 AM on Feb. 9, 2010
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Feb. 8, 2010

NYT urged to "stop the drama and psychological warfare" against Paterson
New York Observer
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"If the New York Times is working on or has a story [about New York Gov. David Paterson], then you should confirm or print it," GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio writes to Times executive editor Bill Keller. "If you do not, then you have a moral obligation to stop the drama and the psychological warfare on Governor Paterson."
> NYT's Paterson expose said to be PG-13, not X-rated
> WPIX: Paterson to answer NYT's questions tomorrow
Posted at 4:59 PM on Feb. 8, 2010
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Times-Picayune presses are still going, says editor
Editor & Publisher
"We are trying to satisfy a demand which doesn't seem to slack," says Jim Amoss. A normal press run for single-copy sales is about 25,000; by noon Monday, the Times-Picayune had printed at least 200,000 copies over that, reports Mark Fitzgerald.
Posted at 3:00 PM on Feb. 8, 2010
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WP says up to 450,000 Sunday papers were delivered in the snow
Politico.com
The Post says the remaining 200,000 or copies should get to homes by tonight. Meanwhile, the paper's site brought in twice the typical weekend pageviews, reports Michael Calderone.
Posted at 2:21 PM on Feb. 8, 2010
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Smith returns to Philly Inquirer after agreeing to suppress political views
Journal-isms || Philadelphia Inquirer
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Stephen A. Smith's sports column ran Monday for the first time in more than two years after he agreed to the Inquirer's demand that he remove political opinions from his website and agree to stop espousing them on cable news shows, reports Richard Prince.
Posted at 1:26 PM on Feb. 8, 2010
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Oops!: Virginian-Pilot reverses Super Bowl score
Virginian-Pilot || Times-Picayune
"We're embarrassed, and we apologize to all our readers, especially Saints fans," says a note from the managing editor. || Meanwhile, in New Orleans... "We expect this to be the best-selling Times-Picayune in our 173-year history."
Posted at 12:59 PM on Feb. 8, 2010
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Toyota dealers pull ads off ABC stations because of "excessive coverage"
ABC News
The dealers in five southeast states shifted their commercial time buys to non-ABC stations in the same markets "as punishment for the reporting" done by ABC News and chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross, according to an ABC station manager.
Posted at 12:30 PM on Feb. 8, 2010
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"We need the Baffler more now than ever," says editor
Chicago Tribune
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"That contrarian attitude toward culture, that scoffing attitude that people associated with us -- the plan now is to revive it," says Baffler founder Thomas Frank. A new issue of the magazine -- "a quarterly publication that only came out once a year" -- is slowly making its way to bookstores.
Posted at 11:54 AM on Feb. 8, 2010
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Chicago morning show hosts fail to ask Zell about Tribune during long interview
Vocalo.org
Did Sam Zell put the subject off limits? No, says Mike North, one of the four WBBM-TV hosts who conducted the 40-minute interview. "It was my fault. I was supposed to ask about the Cubs and Tribune, and I didn't."
Posted at 11:49 AM on Feb. 8, 2010
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Magazine newsstand sales fall 9.1% in second half of 2009
NYTimes.com
Titles with dramatic single-copy declines include W, down 41.7%; Newsweek, down 41.3%; SmartMoney, down 37%; Time, down 34.9%; and Redbook, down 30.1%.
Posted at 10:30 AM on Feb. 8, 2010
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Newsday union leaders to meet with management to review paper's financials
Romenesko Misc.
The meeting will be held Tuesday, nearly three weeks after union members overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to reduce salaries by 10%, cut vacations, and lengthen the work week. Since the 473-10 vote, Local 406 members have been displaying solidarity by wearing the same color on chosen days.

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Posted at 10:01 AM on Feb. 8, 2010
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"Writing about Fox News is a lot like being married"
Broadcasting & Cable
"Even if you try to do something harmless, chances are good you're still going to get yelled at," writes Ben Grossman.
Posted at 9:48 AM on Feb. 8, 2010
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Where's the next generation of media Richie Riches?
AdAge.com
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Are there any billionaires left who are willing to take losses on worthy media properties? asks Simon Dumenco. "For that matter, how much more patience does the current generation of Richie Riches have left?" Dumenco points out that "a lot of the loudest new players in media have no use at all for billionaire benefactors."
Posted at 8:55 AM on Feb. 8, 2010
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Demand Media "has been as close to a safety net as anyone gets in this business"
New York Times
That's what Nashville videographer Dimitri LaBarge tells David Carr. (Demand generally pays $15 to $20 per article and $30 per video.) Unpaid Glamour magazine intern and Demand contributor Heather Mayer says: "I wish I could say that I am doing the work for extra money, but right now, it is the only money I have coming in. I'm torn, because they make a pretty good business out of what we do and pay us not much." || Related video.
Posted at 8:41 AM on Feb. 8, 2010
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Stephanopoulos doesn't regret moving to "Good Morning America"
Los Angeles Times
"I had real questions about taking this job," George Stephanopoulus tells Matea Gold. "I was wrong. I don't feel like I have really given up so much and I've gained so much more." || Washington Post: "News doctor" Frank Magid, who helped develop "Good Morning America," is dead at 78.
Posted at 8:29 AM on Feb. 8, 2010
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Ombud: NYT Jerusalem bureau chief should be reassigned
New York Times
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Ethan Bronner (left) has a son in the Israeli military. "The Times sent a reporter overseas to provide disinterested coverage of one of the world's most intense and potentially explosive conflicts, and now his son has taken up arms for one side," writes ombudsman Clark Hoyt. "Even the most sympathetic reader could reasonably wonder how that would affect the father, especially if shooting broke out." || Executive editor Bill Keller responds. || Related from the Jerusalem Post.
> Goldberg: I'm glad Keller is NYT editor, and not Hoyt
Posted at 8:02 AM on Feb. 8, 2010
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WH press feels bypassed by Obama in favor of TV shows, YouTube
Washington Post
"It's a source of great frustration here," says CBS White House correspondent Chip Reid. "It's important for us to hold the president's feet to the fire." President Obama hasn't held a full-scale news conference since July.
Posted at 7:32 AM on Feb. 8, 2010
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Friday, February 05, 2010 Headlines
Santa Barbara News-Press owner ordered to pay ex-editor nearly $750,000 in legal fees
"I understand the shock and awe that some liberals feel about Fox News"
Additional items for February 5, 2010
Posner concedes he lifted from Miami Herald
Two MediaNews papers to start charging in May
Lois Smith: "I'm so glad I'm not doing publicity now"
Study: Magazines that cut subscription prices still lose subscribers
Seattle Times completes renegotiation of debt
Palin: "Gossip crap" in Anchorage paper "bugs me"
"George Packer's generally right about Twitter, but..."
Hedge-fund creditors win round in Philly newspapers bankruptcy case
Mutter says it again: Journalists should demand to be paid for their work
Tribune Co.'s KTLA confuses viewers with its valentine to Ford Motor Co.
"Sawyer has always been the Katharine Hepburn of the newsroom"
Any journalist who cheerleads uncritically for Twitter is essentially asking for his own destruction
Thursday, February 04, 2010 Headlines
An e-reader business model that just might work
LAT loses Pulitzer-winning auto writer Neil to WSJ
Additional items for February 4, 2010
Pulitzer would have loved Enquirer's Edwards coverage
"Breitbart doesn't even exist without the MSM"
Google News: We'll be happy to work with papers that put up pay walls
Ex-Detroit Free Press editor Andrews named visiting prof at UNR's Reynolds j-school
Yahoo to sell HotJobs to rival Monster.com for $225M
NPR criticized for airing Horowitz's remarks about Zinn
NYT shouldn't wait until 2011 to launch meter system
NYO, Las Vegas publisher to put out free weekly
Why the National Enquirer won't win a Pulitzer
Report: Blogging "lost its luster for many young users"
Chicagoan rents an apartment to store her Playboys
Tackett to take on expanded role in Bloomberg's Washington bureau
Stewart uses O'Reilly appearance to blast Fox News's Obama coverage
Murdoch has a new weapon for his battle against NYT
Wednesday, February 03, 2010 Headlines
Job applications rolling in at eBay founder's Peer News
"Five years ago, NYT could have bought the best local blogs for a song"
Additional items for February 3, 2010
Demand Media veep defends $15 per article pay
Time Inc. subscription revenue down only 6% in Q4
CBS News boss denies reports of Couric salary cut
Can magazines really afford to give away iPads the way SI gave away sneakerphones?
Kaplan out as Parade magazine editor-in-chief
Minnesota Law & Politics folds after parent sells Super Lawyers guide to Thomson Reuters
Mark Cuban to media execs: "Everybody wants to take your content"
NYer's Packer needs to get over his fear of Twitter
Critic's reviews of Sundance films lifted from festival guide
NBC News boss blasts media treatment of Zucker
Breitbart: "I'm sorry, mainstream media. It's over."
CBS News cuts surprisingly deep, top producers axed
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