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OPINION | Summoned to a 'beit din'

By Mordecai Specktor, American Jewish World

The editorial in the last edition of the Jewish World noted that I and this newspaper were being threatened with a lawsuit, following our coverage of a class action lawsuit against ConAgra Foods/He

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Unhappy Anniversary: In which a young journalist learns the truth about free speech and a free press

By Rich Broderick, Ground Zero

Thirty years ago this June, Israel invaded Lebanon, ostensibly to destroy PLO military units hunkered down along the border of the two countries.

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17 of my 25-word contributions to the late great Twin Cities A.V. Club

By Jay Gabler, Front Row Seat

It's just been announced that The Onion is closing multiple local editions of its A.V. Club arts and entertainment publication, including the Twin Cities edition and its associated website. While the news doesn't come as a shock—it's the latest wave in a decade-long tide of print-media closures as journalism is rapidly transformed by the Internet—it means the loss of a distinctive voice in local media. The last editor of the A.V. Club Twin Cities was my friend and blogmate Jason Zabel, who kept the publication's writing razor-sharp and mounted a heroic effort to invigorate the Web presence of a publication that had long been primarily focused on its print edition.

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Front Row Seat

Tweeting for Sweden

By Amy Rea, Flyover Land

Those of you who are fans of the Colbert Report know that he's been having some fun over the past week with the Swedish Twitter account, @Sweden, which lets a Swedish citizen take over the account, uncensored, for a week.

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Catholic Spirit workers, supporters protest outside cathedral

By Michael Moore, St. Paul Union Advocate

With the Archdiocese of St.

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Thou Shalt Not Plagiarize Thyself

By Sheila Regan, Behind the Story

The world of media writers who write about media writers went aflame this week after Jim Romensko outed Jonah Leher for “copy-and-pasting” his own material from one article to another in different publications. Romensko pointed out that three paragraphs of a blog post Leher wrote for The New Yorker were remarkably similar to an article he wrote for the Wall Street Journal last fall. It turns out that it wasn’t the only time Leher has done this.

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Behind the Story

Workers will protest archdiocese for dissolving Catholic Spirit union

By Michael Moore, St. Paul Union Advocate

The Twin Cities labor community will rally behind workers at The Catholic Spirit newspaper Sunday, protesting Archbishop John Nienstedt’s decision to strip 13 workers at the archdiocesan publicatio

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TC Daily Planet's Ifrah Jimale and Sheila Regan win Page One awards

By Mary Turck, News Day

Ifrah Jimale won second place in the independent news blog category for her "Ask a Somali" blog on the TC Daily Planet. Sheila Regan won third place for best continuing coverage online for her series on contracts, transparency and Minneapolis Public Schools. Both were honored at the annual Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists Page One awards banquet June 19. The awards were among more than a hundred at the celebration, which includes categories for large and small newspapers, magazines, television, radio and online journalism.

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News Day

Archdiocese strips 'Catholic Spirit' workers of their union contract

By Michael Moore, St. Paul Union Advocate

The Catholic Spirit is the award-winning official publication of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

The Archdiocese of St.

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Fair use in the age of new media

By Sheila Regan, Behind the Story

I went to a fascinating meeting on Friday about how journalists use copyrighted material on the job. It was organized by the Center for Social Media, of American University, and I was invited to give feedback with a group of other journalists on what we consider “fair use” of copyrighted material.

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