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James Ragland will be reassigned to reporting in neighboring Collin County, Texas, while his arrest on a domestic assault charge is adjudicated, Morning News Editor Bob Mong told Journal-isms on Friday. “There’s no way he can continue his column where he isn’t facing some inevitable conflict,” Mong said. “He writes about the criminal justice system,…

Using FOIA, Bloomberg Obtains 29,000 Pages of Fed Papers “The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. history a secret. Now, the rest of the world can see what it was missing,” Bob Ivry, Bradley Keoun and Phil Kuntz of Bloomberg…

“Two female foreign journalists on Thursday described harrowing sexual assaults carried out by crowds or police as they tried to cover demonstrations in Cairo’s Tahrir Square,” Agence France-Presse reported. The situation alarmed other journalists. Hannah Allam, Cairo bureau chief of the McClatchy Co., tweeted Friday, “Saddens me that in 9yrs of war reporting, most personal…

Raymond H. Boone Scoffs at Citation From Richmond, Va. “A newspaper publisher who is allowing Occupy Richmond protesters to camp in his yard next door to the mayor’s house was slapped Tuesday with a zoning-violation notice,” Reed Williams reported Tuesday for the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch. But Raymond H. Boone, editor and publisher of the Richmond…

“The Washington Post has pushed out — or is trying to push out — at least thirteen people through layoffs, coerced buyouts or outright dismissal on dubious charges,” Fredrick Kunkle, co-chair of the Newspaper Guild unit at the Post, wrote in a memo posted on the Guild website Monday. “What’s more troubling is that more…

Seventeen Latino journalists from the United States and Latin America returned this week from an eight-day, all-expenses-paid trip to Israel sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League, which is concerned about what it considers an unacceptable level of anti-Semitism among Latinos, particularly new arrivals. Fernando DiazAmong the participants were Rick Sanchez, former CNN anchor; Henrik Rehbinder, opinion…

In Tucson, Station Turns Over News Shows to Competitor Viewers of KMSB-TV in Tucson, Ariz., heard a stunning announcement from anchor Lou Raguse on Tuesday: Belo Corp., parent company of the Fox affiliate, Channel 11, had entered into a “shared services agreement” with Raycom Media, the owner of rival KOLD, Channel 13. “Raycom will produce…

The Poynter Institute’s dramatic reproach of its pioneering media blogger Jim Romenesko, followed within hours by his resignation Thursday night, sent tweets flying and computer keys clicking, with discussions of media ethics thrown in for good measure. But it was a discussion that largely took place in the absence of journalists of color. Given the…

A day before the Penn State child sex-abuse scandal forced the retirement of legendary coach Joe Paterno, the Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot-News devoted its entire front page to an editorial calling on Penn State University President Graham Spanier to step down. The university’s board of trustees did the paper one better. On Wednesday night, the board…

Raid Follows Mistaken Report That Store Sells Dog Meat “They were barking up the wrong tree,” Jennifer Bain and Chuck Bennett wrote Friday in the New York Post. “State inspectors raided a Chinatown meat market after a crusading Minneapolis TV newsman confused dogs and ducks and reported that Fido might wind up on somebody’s dinner…