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Romenesko+ Misc.
Examiner.com vice president of editorial Travis Henry says he first learned about his contributors’ plagiarism by reading yesterday’s Romenesko+ post, “Examiner.com is caught ‘pulling a Daily Mail’.” He says in an email that “the articles in… Read more

Politico
Keith Olbermann was the first cable news anchor to cover the anti-corporate protests, and he appears to be enjoying the moral high ground from which he preaches to — among others — his old bosses, Keach Hagey reports.

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Random Pixels | Miami New Times | Miami New Times (updated post)
Miami Herald part-time Neighbors section reporter Jose Cassola told the paper last Friday that he was giving his two-week notice. On Monday, he was arrested… Read more

New York Times
Charles Isherwood has decided that he’s “rapped Adam Rapp’s knuckles enough for a lifetime [so] I’d like to hand the ruler to someone else next time.”

By this point Mr. Rapp surely knows where I

Fimoculous
Just after settling a bet with Rex Sorgatz because the Gawker network fell 10 million page views short of their agreed-upon target, Nick Denton agreed to another bet — this time for 40 percent year-to-year growth. Sorgatz explains:… Read more

Washington Post
Steve Jobs enjoyed almost worshipful media coverage, says Paul Farhi, and his death “was met with the journalistic equivalent of a public rending of garments.” Given Jobs’s record, the quasi-religious hosannas were predictable, notes the Washington Post press… Read more

New York Times | AP | Bloomberg | paidContent
Craig A. Dubow, 56, who has been Gannett’s CEO since 2005, began his second medical leave in two years on Sept. 15. (He’s been dealing with back and… Read more

Bloomberg.com | Associated Press
Carlos Slim boosted his Times Co. holdings by 850,000 shares to 11.9 million shares, according to SEC filings. He now owns 8.1 percent of the newspaper company’s Class A stock. The Mexican telecom billionaire’s spokesman… Read more

Photo District News
The Apple co-founder had a reputation among photographers for being “not just run-of-the mill difficult, but the archetype of difficult,” writes David Walker. Photographer Ed Kashi tells him that Steve Jobs “was one of the most difficult… Read more

Digital journey | Yelvington.com
Morris Publishing Group is absorbing the company’s once-independent digital division, Morris DigitalWorks. The move comes as the newspaper company makes a “digital first” transition and wants its digital audience and… Read more

Steve Jobs’ death topped many news sites’ lists of “Most Popular” stories on Thursday, including six of the top dozen U.S. news sites. Videos about the late Apple co-founder also topped some rankings.

Here are the top stories on… Read more

Westword | RedState.com | Journal-isms
Attorney Mike Robinson didn’t like the way Stephanie McCrummen reported her Washington Post story on Rick Perry’s “Niggerhead” hunting camp, so he decided to “use the same methodology she did” and write… Read more

Adweek | Forbes
The Huffington Post continues to roll out local news websites for major U.S. cities, with HuffPost Detroit and HuffPost Miami coming in November, Adweek reports. HuffPost currently has sites for New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Denver,… Read more

See how Boing Boing, Wired and other tech sites covered Steve Jobs death Wednesday, and how California newspapers and others around the world covered it Thursday morning.

Missoulian Cops and Courts Blog
Regular Romenesko+ readers know what that is. After noticing two Examiner.com writers’ plagiarism, the Missoulian’s Gwen Florio called the Philip Anschutz-owned news outfit’s Denver office “where a woman named Lindsey repeatedly refused to… Read more

Time.com
Walter Isaacson explains in a brief subscriber-only essay on Time.com how he came to write an authorized biography of technology icon Steve Jobs:

In the early summer of 2004, I got a phone call from him. He had

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Romenesko+ Misc.
An American Public Media release says that “with Jacqui Banaszynski as collaborations editor, Public Insight Network will expand its editorial team in order to produce stories of national importance and regional relevance and support similar reporting projects… Read more

Romenesko+ Memos
Melinda Henneberger will write portraits of key political players and crucial campaign moments for the Washington Post. “She also will anchor a new blog on politics and culture that will highlight the voices of some of the country’s… Read more

Written by former Time managing editor and Benjamin Franklin biographer Walter Isaacson, the forthcoming biography of Steve Jobs is now the top seller on Amazon. The book, titled simply “Steve Jobs,” will be released in a little more than… Read more

The Atlantic
Brian Lam, who was editor of Gizmodo during the 2010 iPhone 4 leak saga, says that “sometimes, I wish we never found that phone at all” because in the end “it caused me a lot of grief,… Read more