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Boston Herald refuses to run Northeastern U. game stories because of press conference snub

The Huntington News
Jon Raymond reports the Herald has run box scores and short clips about Northeastern sports events, but it hasn't run full-length game stories on the Huskies since last November. Herald editors are miffed because they weren't notified of the press conference during which Northeastern announced the termination of its football program.

NYT's Barstow worked six months on Tea Party probe

CJR.org | New York Times
"I think we all understood that when you embark on something like this, it's not like you can go to a GAO report and read up on it quickly," David Barstow tells Greg Marx. "This is precisely the kind of story and precisely the kind of topic where having the resources and the time to go deep is not just a luxury, but really a necessity, in order to do a decent job explaining a movement that people are struggling to get a grip on."

Tribune has until March 31 to file reorganization plan

Reuters | Romenesko Memos
Tribune execs write in a memo to employees: "During the next several weeks you can expect to see continued public posturing as negotiations [with creditors] continue. This is not unusual. As you have throughout this process, please stay focused on your job.

Eight McClatchy papers win the chain's President's Award for journalism excellence

McClatchy press release
The Miami Herald won two awards -- one for its iPhone apps and the other for an investigation into county spending. Jonathan S. Landay of McClatchy's Washington Bureau was honored for his account of an ambush he survived while embedded in Afghanistan

Richmond alt-weekly fires reporter for using obscenity in e-mail misdirected to PR man

Richmond Times-Dispatch
Style Weekly reporter Chris Dovi referred to a blind motivational speaker as a "blind [expletive]" in an e-mail he meant to send to an editor. Instead, the message went to the speaker's PR man, who had been repeatedly calling and e-mailing Dovi about getting him to cover an event.

Gillmor: Kudos to NYT for posting Olympics results as they come in

Mediactive.com
The fact that the Times' ombudsman has to explain to readers why his paper reports actual news as it happens "is a depressing commentary on our nation's entertainment-driven culture," says Dan Gillmor. "Any news organization holding back on news because entertainment consumers want to live in their fantasy worlds deserves utter contempt."

Ebert: "I got a jolt" from my Esquire portrait, but...

Chicago Sun-Times

Ethan Hill

"I am not a lovely sight, and in a moment I thought, well, what the hell. It's just as well it's out there. That's how I look, after all," writes Roger Ebert. "Running it that big was good journalism. It made you want to read the article." Chris Jones' piece, he says, was well written. "He's good. You sense the person there. He's not holding his subjects at arm's length."

HBO's "Reporter" tries to calculate the elusive value of Kristof's work

Washington Post | Time | Philly Daily News | Boston Globe
"Reporter," which debuts Thursday night on HBO, "asks its viewers to consider the world and all its problems, only without newspapers that will pay journalists to bear such global witness," writes Hank Stuever. "Even the reporter himself [Nick Kristof], sitting in his office in the Times's fabulously expensive skyscraper, can only guess at the question of his own extinction." || Time's Kristof Q and A. || Reviews from Ellen Gray and Sam Allis.

CNBC signs Faber to new contract after losing Gasparino

Daily Finance
Jeff Bercovici hears that CNBC veteran reporter David Faber was being courted by ABC News and Bloomberg TV. He notes that ex-CNBCer Charlie Gasparino "seems to have decided that a decrease in exposure was worth it for a new contract [with Fox Business] that reportedly pays him in excess of $1 million a year." 
> "I always wanted to work for Fox," says Gasparino

Brides magazine, The Knot step up their rivalry

Wall Street Journali
Emily Steel reports Conde Nast is doubling Brides' frequency, making it a monthly, and is introducing more digital services. The Knot, which operates the most-popular wedding Web site, also is doubling the frequency of its print magazine, to four times a year.