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'60 Minutes' Criticized For NSA Report

CBS is once again facing criticism over a story aired on 60 Minutes — this one about the National Security Agency. This new controversy over the show's journalism comes on the heels of a false story the show aired on the attacks against the U.S. diplomatic installation in Benghazi, Libya.

'60 Minutes' Criticized For NSA Report

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Photojournalists Push White House For Better Access To Obama

Reporters gave White House Press Secretary Jay Carney a tough time Thursday over the way in which the administration controls President Obama's image. In this case literally, by severely limiting the situations in which professional photojournalists get to take pictures of the president. News organizations have formally protested.

Photojournalists Push White House For Better Access To Obama

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China Threatens To Expel Reporters After Reports On Leaders' Wealth

Chinese authorities have threatened to toss out all of the reporters for The New York Times and Bloomberg in China after 18 months of blockbuster stories exposing corruption among the elites — including, in the Times case, the family of Premier Wen Jiabao, who ruled for a decade, and Bloomberg's reporting on Li Keqiang, who took over in March. It is a reaction that has not been seen since the earliest days after the thawing of relations between the U.S. and China in the mid-1970s.

China Threatens To Expel Reporters After Reports On Leaders' Wealth

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OMG, BuzzFeed Is Investing In Serious News Coverage! Is It FTW?

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OMG, BuzzFeed Is Investing In Serious News Coverage! Is It FTW?

BuzzFeed's digital traffic is stratospheric, driven largely by animated GIFs and lists, like the 10 most life-affirming dog rescue stories. But the social media outfit is in the process of building up a team of journalists to offer original news reporting, raising questions of just what it intends to be.

OMG, BuzzFeed Is Investing In Serious News Coverage! Is It FTW?

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CBS Puts Lara Logan On Leave After Review Of Flawed Benghazi Report

NPR has obtained the findings of a CBS internal investigation of an inaccurate 60 Minutes report by Lara Logan. CBS was forced to admit that one of the story's central figures fabricated an eyewitness account.

CBS Puts Lara Logan On Leave After Review Of Flawed Benghazi Report

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In Reversal, CBS Retracts Account From '60 Minutes' Benghazi Source

On Friday, CBS News retracted a key element of an investigative report about the deadly attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, saying the network had been misled. CBS had defended its story for days despite growing doubts about the credibility of the British security contractor it presented as an eyewitness to the attack.

In Reversal, CBS Retracts Account From '60 Minutes' Benghazi Source

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Hacking Trial Puts U.K. Press, Politicos, Police On Defense

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Hacking Trial Puts U.K. Press, Politicos, Police On Defense

British news executives go to trial Monday following the phone hacking and bribery scandal that sank Rupert Murdoch's News of the World. The trial is expected to reveal details of the uncomfortably cozy relationship between the media and political elites.

Hacking Trial Puts U.K. Press, Politicos, Police On Defense

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AP Firings Leave Many In News Media Scratching Their Heads

A brief Associated Press story that wrongly claimed Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe had been accused in court documents of lying to a federal investigator has resulted in the firings of several AP journalists.

AP Firings Leave Many In News Media Scratching Their Heads

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Why's eBay's Pierre Omidyar Bankrolling A Journalism Startup?

Glenn Greenwald's series of national security scoops throughout the summer for the NSA convinced him he wanted to do more reporting, and needed a place beyond the reach of the British authorities to do it. He has found a partner in Pierre Omidyar, the billionaire co-founder of eBay who has taken an interest in investigative journalism.

Why's eBay's Pierre Omidyar Bankrolling A Journalism Startup?

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Monitoring For Signs Of Bias In Media's Shutdown Reporting

The federal government has been partially closed for four days now. While covering the shutdown, newsrooms are struggling with how to be even-handed while accurately explaining what's happening.

Monitoring For Signs Of Bias In Media's Shutdown Reporting

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Why Outlets Often Get It Wrong In Breaking News Coverage

Coverage of the Navy Yard shootings has been intensive and sometimes inaccurate. David Folkenflik talks with Audie Cornish about the pressures at work in covering a breaking story.

Why Outlets Often Get It Wrong In Breaking News Coverage

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Media Weighs Competition, Collaboration In Snowden Coverage

British paper The Guardian announced last Friday that it would share classified documents acquired from Edward Snowden with The New York Times. News organizations pursuing the disclosures made by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden have seesawed between rivalry and collaboration — resentment and achievement.

Media Weighs Competition, Collaboration In Snowden Coverage

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Al Jazeera Offers Americans An Alternative For News

The cable news channel Al Jazeera America launched on Tuesday, and is now available in more than 40 million households. But there are many people inside the industry skeptical that its promise of thoughtful and serious news coverage can convince Americans to tune in.

Al Jazeera Offers Americans An Alternative For News

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NPR CEO Knell To Leave After 2 years On The Job

CEO Gary Knell announced on Monday that he is leaving NPR to take the helm at National Geographic Society. The offer was too good to refuse, Knell told NPR staffers, giving him the chance to lead a larger educational and publishing and television organization on a "global stage."

NPR CEO Knell To Leave After 2 years On The Job

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A Lover Of Horse Races, And Horses: Remembering Jack Germond

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It's All Politics

A Lover Of Horse Races, And Horses: Remembering Jack Germond

It's something you don't find much among reporters today, but Jack Germond actually liked politicians. That doesn't mean he suffered phonies. The longtime political journalist, who died Wednesday at 85, was one of the legendary "boys on the bus," who also liked to spend time at the real racetrack.

A Lover Of Horse Races, And Horses: Remembering Jack Germond

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