Columbia University announced Wednesday that Tampa Bay Times chairman and CEO Paul Tash will chair the Pulitzer Prize board. Tash became a member of the board in 2006. Chairmen serve for one year, while board members serve a maximum of … Read more

The Department of Justice’s secret seizure of Associated Press phone records was a topic of two well-covered press conferences Tuesday, and it will certainly be discussed again at Attorney General Eric Holder’s scheduled appearance before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday… Read more

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New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan has promised to examine Times photo policies after T Magazine editor Deborah Needleman made an offhand reference about wanting to Photoshop a model on the magazine’s cover.… Read more

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The drop in foreclosures nationwide in March should be good news for everyone, but the Boston business Journal’s Jon Chesto notes GateHouse Media Inc. is facing a 6 percent decline in revenue year over year … Read more

AOL announced last week that Columbia Journalism Review Editor-in-Chief Cyndi Stivers had accepted the editorship of AOL.com, the company’s storied Web gateway. Wait a second, I asked the journalism-industry chronicler in a phone call Monday, aren’t news consumers moving … Read more

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World Press Photo says Paul Hansen’s photo of mourners in Gaza was “retouched with respect to both global and local color and tone. Beyond this, … Read more

Buzzfeed | Manchester Evening News

Nineteen news organizations have opposed guidelines preventing publications from sending photographers to Beyoncé’s shows.

Mickey H. Osterreicher, general counsel for the National Press Photographers Association, wrote a letter to the firm that handles Beyoncé’s publicity … Read more

Reviews are in: Not many people are fans of the Department of Justice’s seizure of two months’ worth of phone records from AP reporters. DOJ still isn’t saying why it seized the records. Here are some important aspects of … Read more

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The U.S. Justice Department “has secretly obtained two months of telephone records of journalists,” the news cooperative reports.

The records came from AP reporters as well as offices in New York, Washington and Connecticut. They include … Read more

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The Newseum reconsidered the inclusion of two suspected terrorists in its Monday rededication of its Journalists Memorial after several journalists and advocacy groups raised concerns.

Al-Aqsa cameramen Hussam … Read more

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The Philadelphia Inquirer announced just before 2:30 p.m. that a verdict had been reached in the trial of Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortion doctor accused of killing four babies born alive and an adult patient. Jurors have been deliberating … Read more

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Deborah Cotton was in “guarded but stable condition” Sunday night after being hit by gunfire in New Orleans, Kevin Allman reports. Cotton returned to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina “more determined than ever to … Read more

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JP Mangalindan looks at the financial health of Web publishers like The Huffington Post, Gawker Media and BuzzFeed. But of the seven companies listed, the piece includes … Read more

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The Colorado House passed a bill requiring that “magazines whose primary focus is marijuana or marijuana businesses are only sold in retail marijuana stores or behind the counter in establishments where persons under twenty-one years … Read more

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Steve Bradshaw, a newspaper carrier for Warren Buffett-owned World Media Enterprises, pulled a man from a burning house Sunday, Danielle Battaglia reports in The Reidsville Review. Bradshaw was on … Read more

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“We’re getting the big stories wrong, over and over again,” CBS Evening News anchor and Managing Editor Scott Pelley said at a Quinnipiac University lunch Friday. The first example … Read more

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“Our reporters should not have access to any data considered proprietary,” Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief Matthew Winkler writes in an editorial published Sunday night. “… Read more