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1. November 27, 2012 06:50 AM

   Amazon sharecroppers

   The Seattle Times on the hometown giant's uneasy relationship with its merchants

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Seattle Times has another good story on Amazon, this time reporting on the hometown giant's lopsided relationship with its third-party retailers. Amazon's Marketplace is a digital consignment store that allows merchants to sell their stuff on Amazon.com in exchange for a 6 percent to 25 percent cut off the top. Sellers take the deal to get access to the...

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2. October 26, 2012 01:13 PM

   Journalism ethics in a digital age

   A Poynter conference this week provoked good discussion but presupposed an old definition of journalism

   By Kira Goldenberg

   On Tuesday, in the midst of wonky Poynter conference dialogue about how to reimagine journalism ethics for a digital age, Seattle Times columnist Monica Guzman told an anecdote that nailed the angst of a changing industry. Shortly after the Seattle Post-Intelligencer dropped its print edition, a bear got loose in Seattle, Guzman said. She and her P-I colleagues continually updated...

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3. April 24, 2012 06:01 PM

   Pulitzer winners donate their prize to their peers

   The $10,000 prize for investigative reporting will teach more Seattle Times reporters how to uncover stories

   By Olivia Smith

   Instead of keeping the $10,000 that accompanied their recent Pulitzer for investigative reporting, Ken Armstrong and Michael Berens decided to donate it so that other journalists could learn their prize-winning skills. “So much public information is now maintained exclusively in a digital format,” said Berens. “Yet, so many reporters don’t know how to access and analyze it. Training is the...

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