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WikiLeaks Gitmo Files Expose Media Divisions



The Guardian: "The Guantanamo Files"

The New York Times: "The Guantanamo Files"

London Daily Telegraph: "Guantanamo Files"

Tom Lasseter, McClatchy Newspapers: "Guantanamo secret files show U.S. often held innocent Afghans"

Peter Finn, The Washington Post: "WikiLeaks discloses new details on whereabouts of al-Qaeda leaders on 9/11"

David Martin, CBS News: "WikiLeaks: al Qaeda watched towers burn"

Glenn Greenwald, Salon: "Newly leaked documents show the ongoing travesty of Guantanamo"

Joe Coscarelli, The Village Voice: "U.S. Media Favoring Scary Side of Guantanamo Detainees Instead of American Screw-Ups"

J.D. Gordon, Fox News: "WikiLeaks Continues Its War on America -- Though Leaks Prove How Valuable Gitmo Is to the United States"

Al Pessin, Voice of America: "WikiLeaks Guantanamo Documents Show Complexity"

Joe Pompeo, Yahoo! News: "News orgs form reports, alliances around latest WikiLeaks docs"

Brian Stelter and Noam Cohen, The New York Times: "In WikiLeaks' Growth, Some Control is Lost"

Mark Thompson, Battleland blog, Time: "Competition Hyping WikiLeaks' Gitmo-Docs Dump?"

Ujala Sehgal, Media Bistro: "How the New York Times Forced Julian Assange to Give Up Guantanamo Bay Files"

Will, Kate and the Media Horde

Mimi Turner, The Hollywood Reporter: "NBC News Exec: Royal Wedding Is 'Biggest International Technical Buildout Ever'"

Peter Kafka, AllThingsDigital: "Sad Chart of the Day: American Web Surfers Care More Than Brits About Royal Wedding"

Husna Haq, Christian Science Monitor: "Will and Kate publishing frenzy.  With everything from comic books to bodice rippers, publishers are hoping to cash in on Will and Kate's big day."

Updates, Briefly



Sunlen Miller and Devin Dwyer, ABC News: "President Obama Releases Birth Certificate to End Birther 'Silliness'"

Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times: "'Three Cups of Tea,' Spilled"

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2011 Pulitzers Honor Best "Print" Journalism

Pulitzer.org: "2011 Pulitzer Prize Winners"

Eric Ernst, Sarasota Herald-Tribune: "Pulitzer board took notice, not lawmakers"

Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein, ProPublica: "The Wall Street Money Machine"

Los Angeles Times: "High salaries stir outrage in Bell"

Los Angeles Times: "California public records: A guide to your rights as a citizen"

Mark Johnson, Kathleen Gallagher, Gary Porter, Lou Saldivar and Alison Sherwood, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: "One In a Billion: A boy's life, a medical mystery" (Sherwood is a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism)

Melissa Bell, The Washington Post: "Pulitzer watch: Is there no more breaking news in newspapers?"

Three Cups of Deception?

Steve Croft, 60 Minutes, CBS News: "Questions over Greg Mortenson's stories"

Jon Krakauer, Byliner Originals: "Three Cups of Deceipt"

Gail Schontzler, Bozeman Daily Chronicle: "Mortenson under fire from '60 Minutes' -- Bozeman philanthopist denies allegations"

Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times: "'Three Cups of Tea,' Spilled"

Koch Uses Google to Refute Story

John Aloysius Farrell, Center for Public Integrity: "Koch's web of influence"

Cole Goins, Center for Public Integrity: "Koch buys online advertising to attack report on its lobbying influence"

Keach Hagey, Politico's On Media blog: "Koch buys ads claiming 'bias' in CPI story"

Koch Industries, Inc., KochFacts.com: "Responding to Slanted Journalism at the Center for Public Integrity" (Readers are taken to this page when they search Google for "Center for Public Integrity" and click on the first, sponsored link.)

U.S. News & World Report, John A. Farrell's opinion pieces for the publication.

Spencer MacColl, Center for Responsive Politics: "Capital Rivals: Koch Brothers vs. George Soros"

HuffPo Lawsuit Rests on Questionable Theory

Nathan Olivarez-Giles, Los Angeles Times: "Arianna Huffington says Huff Po writer's lawsuit is 'utterly without merit'"

Matthew Ingram, GigaOm, Bloomberg Businessweek: "Arianna Huffington: Slave Owner or Crowdsourcing Pioneer?"

Joe Mullin, paidContent.org: "Tasini On HuffPo Lawsuit: We Have 'All Sorts of Inside Information'"

Jeff Bercovici, Forbes: "Why the Times Pays Writers Even When It Doesn't Have To"

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Enabling The Donald's Birther Blather

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James Poniewozik, Time: "Presidential Apprentice: Donald Trump's Birtherism, Sponsored By NBC"

Glynnis MacNicol, Business Insider: "Forget News Anchors, Media Genius Donald Trump Is The New 'Voice of God'"

Kevin Dolak and John Berman, ABC News: "Sarah Palin 'Appreciates' Donald Trump's 'Birther' Questions"

Matt Lewis, The Daily Caller: "Rubio's Advice to Donald Trump: Drop the 'Birther' Issue"

Brian Montopoli, CBS News: "Donald Trump tied for first in poll of GOP race"

Open Records Debate: Alleged Intimidation in Wisconsin

Howard Schweber, Huffington Post: "Open Records Laws Go From Sunshine to Sunburn"

Editorial Board, The Washington Post: "Using open-records laws to harass scholars"

Jack Shafer, Slate: "There's No Such Thing as a Bad FOIA Request"

Charles Davis, The Art of Access blog: "See, This is the Kind of Stuff I Was Worried About..."

Innocence Advocate Guilty of Lying?

Dan Hinkel and Matthew Walberg, Chicago Tribune: "Northwestern says star journalism professor lied"

Brian Rosenthal, Daily Northwestern: "Northwestern explains Protess decision, accuses professor of lying, doctoring emails"

Freedom 43: Social Branding of Local TV News

The Freedom 43 web site, Facebook fan page and Twitter account

Andrew Gauthier, TV Spy: "Rebranding as 'Freedom 43,' Oklahoma City's KAUT Targets Conservative Viewers"

Paul Greeley, The 24/7 Newsroom blog: "Stand up and Salute the News"

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Tweets Put Sports Reporters On Hot Seat

Bernie Miklasz, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "I am embarrassed and I apologize"

Eric Blumberg Off the Bench Twitter feed, KOMU-TV: "#Mizzou email I've seen"

David Briggs, Columbia Daily Tribune: "Some reporters burned by itchy Twitter fingers"

Greg Hall, KC Confidential blog: "OTC: Mizzou Gets Whitewashed by Painter & Twitter"

Little Faith in Haith

Columbia Missourian story collection: "Mike Anderson resigns; Missouri hires Frank Haith"

Joe Walljasper, Columbia Daily Tribune: "Alden sees what rest do not"

Jeff Gordon, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "Tipsheet: Apparently, Frank Haith no chance"

CBS Sports.com: "New Mizzou coach Haith knows he has to win over fans"

Read multiple media reports and fan reaction on Tigerboard.com

Koran Burning and Media Behavior

Greg Allen, NPR: "Florida Pastor Does Not Plan to Burn More Qurans"

Peter Finocchiaro, Slate: "Did a Quran burning really cause Afghan violence?"

Cathy Lynn Grossman, Faith and Reason blog, USA Today: "Should media have reported the Fla. Quran burning?"

Chad Smith, Ocala (FL) Star-Banner: "Media had backed off Dove World, but they returned after Afghan violence"

Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times: "Florida pastor Terry Jones and the far reach of free speech"

Adam Serwer, The Washington Post: "Koran burning may be reprehensible, but it's still free speech"

Group Says TV Journalist an FBI Snitch

John Solomon and Aaron Mehta, The Center For Public Integrity: "Memo suggests FBI had mole inside ABC News in 1990s"

John Cook, Gawker.com: "CBS News Washington Bureau Chief Was an FBI Snitch"

Tanzina Vega, The New York Times: "Center for Public Integrity to Start New Site for Investigative Journalism"

GE Paying No Taxes?

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David Kocieniewski, The New York Times: "G.E.'s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether"

Allan Sloan and Jeff Gerth, Fortune: "Setting the Record Straight on GE's Taxes"

Felix Salmon, Reuters: "GE and the power of iterative journalism"

Paul Farhi, The Washington Post: "On NBC, the missing story about parent company General Electric"