Sunlight Foundation
A press release for Sunlight Foundation's new plagiarism-detection tool Churnalism claims a bust right out of the gate: Reuters' prematurely published obituary for George Soros "includes a number of references from his Wikipedia page," it says.

The tool compares text -- which you can either paste in or let Churnalism vacuum in from the URL -- against Wikipedia and a database of press releases, from "PR Newswire, PR News Web, EurekaAlert!, congressional leadership offices, the White House, a sampling of Fortune 500 companies, prominent philanthropic foundations and many more," the release says.

But could Soros' Wiki page have sucked in phrases from Reuters' obituary, as the release notes happened with a New York Times article? Edits made since the obituary was mistakenly published don't seem to indicate the wording moved in that direction (though I'm hardly an expert when it comes to forensic examinations of Wiki edits). I've contacted Reuters for comment; obviously the Soros piece was not intended to be published as is.

The New York Observer
Former New York Times Assistant Managing Editor Jim Roberts will become executive editor of Reuters Digital, Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke reports. Roberts took a buyout from the Times last month.

He'll "oversee the editorial work of Reuters.com and our global family of Reuters websites, our opinion team and our online video operation," Reuters Digital Editor Chrsytia Freeland wrote staff in an email obtained by Bloomgarden-Smoke.

Previously: New York Times’ Pilhofer: ‘There’s a lot of institutional memory walking out the door’ | New York Times editor to take 75,000 Twitter followers out the door with him (Paid Content)

Reuters | Storify
Reuters photographer Kevin Lamarque tells the story behind his now-famous photo of Hillary Clinton wearing sunglasses and checking her BlackBerry:

"On a secretive trip by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Tripoli, only days before the capture and killing of Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi, I photographed Clinton aboard a C-17 transport plane. She was wearing dark sunglasses while texting from a makeshift desk she was working from. Okay, nice image I thought, but we were about to land in Tripoli which was certain to yield the images that the world would really want to see. Initially yes. But that was last October."

Last week it sparked a meme of 32 Tumblr posts suggesting what and who Clinton was text messaging. They got 83,000 shares on Facebook, over 45,000 Tumblr followers and a blitz of media coverage. In the end, Clinton herself joined the fun. In a Facebook chat on Thursday Lamarque said, "I am perhaps a bit old school, I don't tweet and I spend little time reading blogs, so the scope and scale of the whole thing was a bit of a mystery to me." And in the blog post, he adds: "Photographers, you never really know when your pictures will resurface and what use they will be to someone out there."

Investigative journalist Steve Stecklow will work for Reuters in London; Matthew Keys will work with Social Media Editor Anthony De Rosa in New York. Related: Eric Carvin’s social media goal: ‘To get to every last journalist at AP’ (more...)