The Sacramento Bee fired award-winning photographer Bryan Patrick on Friday after finding three cases, going back to 2009, in which he digitally manipulated photographs.

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About 30 employees of the former New York Times Regional Media Group were notified Friday that their new employer, Halifax Media Group, has decided to lay them off and offer severance packages. The other 20 were offered positions, but only

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A few additional links to read this afternoon:

• Spokane police ombudsman says local media should have ombud, too (The Pacific Northwest Inlander)
• Agence France-Presse responds to Israeli embassy, says photo taken in West Bank wasn’t staged (AFP)
• Shorenstein

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JCPenney wants to keep it simple.

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Imagine all the trailers for this week's opening movies condensed into a minute-long sequence. Look up. There it is. And now look down. Why, there's rumination on the content of Hollywood's finest produce of the week adduced exclusively from promotional materials and trailers.

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The Post follows up on its story earlier this week about Philadelphia Media Network going on the auction blog, reporting that private equity firms Angelo Gordon and Alden Capital, each of which hold… Read more

When Dallas Morning News reporter Tom Benning called a Susan G. Komen for the Cure spokeswoman Friday morning, he got a heads up that something big was about to break.

“I literally called the person who was sending out the… Read more

J-School Buzz | Student Press Law Center
J-School Buzz, an independent blog covering the Missouri School of Journalism, has found an ally in its complaints about the Columbia Missourian’s policy forbidding its student reporters to work for other… Read more

Yale Daily News
Diana Li and Christopher Peak compare the New Haven Register, the corporate-owned newspaper reinventing itself as “digital first,” and the New Haven Independent, the upstart nonprofit news site. Editors at the newspaper describe how they’re opening up the… Read more

It's been quite amazing how many finished Super Bowl spots, not just teasers, have been released online before this year's game. This morning we have two more 30-second spots—E*Trade's "Fatherhood" spot from Grey, New York, and Century 21's "Smarter. Bolder. Faster" from Red Tettemer + Partners in Philadelphia.

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New York Times Social Media Editor Liz Heron said during a talk in London on Friday that the Times will have a presence on Pinterest soon. “Pinterest is one up-and-coming platform, but we’re still figuring out what the community… Read more

Reuters journalists in U.K. approve 2-day strike over pay offer

Isaiah who? Suave Old Spice pitchman Mustafa is just a fading memory when manic spokesfreak Terry Crews is in the house. In fun new spots from Wieden + Kennedy, Crews cuts through the clutter with wall-wrecking, all-capped ferocity, crashing staid commercials for Procter & Gamble sister brands Charmin and Bounce to deliver lines like, "OLD SPICE BODY SPRAY MAKES YOU SMELL LIKE POWERRRR! IT'S SO POWERFUL, IT SELLS ITSELF IN OTHER PEOPLE'S COMMERCIALS!" Whoa. In a third spot (after the jump) not co-branded with another P&G product, Crews uses his powerful magic breath to turn a skinny nerd into a skinny nerd-pharaoh, then into a vending machine, before smashing his fist through the glass to grab some potato chips. Watch these "Smell Is Power" clips at maximum volume for a few minutes and you could lose your mind, much as Terry did in his last Old Spice outing. Such awesome wackiness restores my faith that there really is a is god out there somewhere and—HE SMELLS LIKE POWERRRR!

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The Spectrum
Editor in Chief Matthew Parrino eloquently describes what happened after an assistant news editor for The Spectrum, the student newspaper at SUNY’s University at Buffalo, expressed her opinions on tattoos:

Beware of what you write. It can destroy

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You might thing you've already seen most of the commercials from this Sunday's Super Bowl. And you wouldn't be wrong. It has been a year of teasers gone berserk. But why not watch the ads again—this time during the game, with live commentary from Adweek and our special guests.

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General Manager of Fox WJBK station in Detroit dies suddenly at the age of 50

Times ombud Brisbane agrees with readers on unwarranted intrusions:

“In cases where a victim’s privacy competes with the journalist’s desire to get the story, I often side with the victim … Journalists should do more to protect the privacy… Read more

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Who Peter King
Age 54

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If you've watched her wave a flag for five hours and still need more Adriana Lima, here's her Telefora ad that's airing Sunday on the Super Bowl. Her advice to men for Valentine's Day? Give flowers, get sex in return.

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