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A reporter and news director for public radio station KDLG in Dillingham, Alaska, has left her job after complaints over derogatory comments she made about the town on her personal blog.

Eileen Goode told the Anchorage Daily News that she had thought…

New York Times’ public editor Clark Hoyt weighed in this past weekend on recent “transgressions” by three Times journalists — Maureen Dowd, Thomas Friedman and Edmund Andrews.  Hoyt describes the first two  as “star columnists” and Andrews as an economics writer.

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What you post online could get you sued, an article in the Wall Street Journal cautions.

“Bloggers are increasingly getting sued or threatened with legal action for everything from defamation to invasion of privacy to copyright infringement,” the story by M.P. McQueen…

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Governments worldwide are increasingly cracking down on internet journalists, reports Reporters Without Borders, a group that annually tracks the number of journalists killed in the line of duty. (That number hit a five-year low in 2008.)

From an article about the…