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Isaac Fitzgerald bio ↓ · December 29th, 2009 · filed under Media

Amazon reports that Kindle Books outsold real books on Christmas day (and Mashable shows why that’s just PR smoke and mirrors).

An argument for schools to stop blocking social networking sites.

Crime reporters in Mexico face deadly peril.

The Society of Professional Journalists slams “checkbook journalism.” (via MediaBistro)

A Chinese novelist is suing Google over its books project. (via PW)

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Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and been given a sword by a king, thereby accomplishing three out of five of his childhood goals. He has also written for The Bold Italic, McSweeney's, Mother Jones, and The San Francisco Chronicle. He is the managing editor of The Rumpus. Follow him on Twitter. More from this author →

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