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Tom Rosenstiel | Poynter | 5/3/2013
What qualities distinguish successful leaders in media today?
Arch Puddington | Foreign Policy | 5/3/2013
Freedom House ranks the world's most repressive media climates.
metro.co.uk | 5/3/2013
A Chinese state newspaper has been left red faced after internet users pointed out its new building’s remarkable similarity to a penis.
Sarah Laskow | Columbia Journalism Review | 5/2/2013
Last month, the Digital Public Library of America introduced its discovery portal to the Internet.
Ken Doctor | Nieman Journalism Lab | 5/2/2013
What are we to think when the aggregators start getting aggregated?
Roy Greenslade | The Guardian | 5/2/2013
Today people are casting their votes in 34 localities across England, plus one in Wales.
Stuart Elliott | The New York Times | 5/2/2013
For several years, networks and channels with programming aimed at Hispanic viewers have been increasing their presence during the annual television industry ritual known as upfront week, when advertisers and agencies are wooed before the coming fall season.
Aswini Anburajan | BuzzFeed | 5/2/2013
Search traffic to publishers has taken a dive in the last eight months, with traffic from Google dropping more than 30% from August 2012 through March 2013, according to research done by BuzzFeed.
Steve Annear | Boston Magazine | 5/2/2013
With The Phoenix long gone, and the red boxes that once held it obsolete from city streets, three former staff members of the historic alt-weekly have launched an online supplement “inspired by the spirit” of the “recently defunct” magazine.
Christine McConville | Boston Herald | 5/2/2013
NEW YORK — New York Times executives came under pressure over their hefty compensation packages from shareholders yesterday who peppered the corporate brass with questions about belt-tightening and plans to jettison properties such as the Boston Globe.
Media Moves | 5/2/2013
For the first time in its history, the New York Times published an investigative project in both English and Spanish.
Kelly McBride | Poynter | 5/2/2013
When the Toledo Police Department refused to release a gang map that showed which gangs claimed which neighborhoods in the small city 60 miles southwest of Detroit, crime reporter Taylor Dungjen decided to create her own.
Mathew Ingram | paidContent.org | 5/2/2013
You might have heard about the website RapGenius when it raised $15 million from Marc Andreessen’s venture firm and thought to yourself that this was a strange investment for the former Netscape founder: a site that allows music fans to annotate rap lyrics.
Andrew Beaujon | Poynter | 5/6/2013
Nu Yang | 5/7/2013
Newsosaur: How Publishers Can Win at Mobile Commerce
Alan D. Mutter | 5/8/2013