By Mathew Ingram
Business Week
In the coverage of New York Times writer Zachary Kouwe, who resigned recently amid accusations of plagiarism, much has been said about the demands of writing for the always-on Web, and how this might have contributed to Kouwe’s missteps—something the writer himself referred to in a discussion of the incident as described [...]

Gillian Reagan
Business Insider

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Varian was writing a summary of his presentation at the Federal Trade Commission’s hearings on the future of [...]

American Journalism Review
News outlets are assigning staffers to focus on networking.
By Stephanie Gleason
Stephanie Gleason is an AJR editorial assistant.

Trending in journalism right now: #social media editors.
With more than 400 million active users, Facebook celebrated its sixth birthday in February. And while sites like NYTimes.com and CNN.com experienced a decline in the number of [...]

By PHILIP ELLIOTT
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — (pound sign)wanttospinWHreporters?
If you’re PressSec – White House press secretary Robert Gibbs‘ username on Twitter – you join the powerful social media platform and push your message across the Internet, 140 characters at a time.
Blending behind-the-scenes nuggets with a defense of President Barack Obama’s record, White House and administration officials [...]

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE (AP)

SAN FRANCISCO — A bankruptcy judge approved Affiliated Media Inc.’s reorganization plan Thursday and freed the publisher of the San Jose Mercury News and 53 other daily newspapers from most of its debt as it tries to boost its sagging revenue.
The confirmation of the reorganization plan in Delaware puts Affiliated Media, [...]