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3:20 PM ET, December 9, 2010

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Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
Why The New York Times eliminated its social media editor position  —  Earlier this week, New York Times Social Media Editor Jennifer Preston tweeted that she would be returning to reporting full-time.  The news made me wonder: What would this mean for social media at the Times?
Discussion: Gawker, The Wrap, Yahoo! News and USA Today
Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:
How Fox News Spun Health-Care Debate  —  As the debate over the public option heated up last year, Fox News brass told staffers to change the way they talked about it.  Howard Kurtz on the memo that echoed a key GOP talking point.  —  As the health-care debate was heating up in the summer of 2009 …
Cpen / Twitter Blog:
To Trend or Not to Trend...  Since Twitter first introduced the Trends feature in the summer of 2008, one frequently asked question has been “Why isn't X trending?”  This question has come up around a variety of subjects, from #justinbieber and #adamlambert to #flotilla, #iranelection and #demo2010.
Rem Rieder / American Journalism Review:
A Profoundly Bad Idea  —  Sen. Joe Lieberman and his call for a federal investigation of the Times over WikiLeaks.  Posted: Wed, Dec. 8 2010  —  Rem Rieder (rrieder@ajr.umd.edu) is AJR's editor and senior vice president.  —  Sen. Joe Lieberman has come up with a terrible idea.
Discussion: Salon
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NYT Reporter Defends Publishing WikiLeaks Cables … Sen. Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, has suggested that The New York Times should be investigated for publishing classified diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks.  —  “To me The New York Times has committed …
Discussion: Techdirt and The Huffington Post
Lucia Moses / Mediaweek:
Bonnier Revs Up Roadtrip  —  Joining the likes of News Corp.'s forthcoming tablet newspaper The Daily and Richard Branson's iPad-only magazine, Project, Sweden's Bonnier Corp. has created Roadtrip, a made-for-the-tablet publication.  —  The new form shows how publishers are experimenting …
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Interview: Neil Ashe On Why He's Leaving CBS Interactive Now  —  If you're looking for post-acquisition personnel drama a la MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) or frustration a la Dodgeball-Google (NSDQ: GOOG), don't read this.  Aside from losing control over the timing, so far Neil Ashe's decision to leave CBS …
Discussion: WebNewser and BoomTown
Yahoo / Yodel Anecdotal:
Yahoo! Gets Hyper-Local  —  Here at Yahoo! we are constantly redefining how people experience and interact with content on the Web.  Users today want to go beyond words presented on the screen.  They want videos.  They want social activity.  They want it anywhere and anytime.
Jim Romenesko / Poynter:
Pulitzer board announces changes for 2011 competition  —  Romenesko Misc.  —  The rules for 12 of the 14 categories now state explicitly that entries may use any available journalistic tool, including text reporting, videos, databases, multimedia or interactive presentations or any combination of those formats.
Santa Rosa Press-Democrat:
Sonoma Index-Tribune drops paywall on news website  —  The Sonoma Index-Tribune has ended its three-month-long practice of charging readers to view online content, even as another news website begins operation in the community.  —  In September, the twice-weekly Index-Tribune started charging viewers $5 …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Automattic Hits 300 Million Unique Visitors, Roughly $10 Million In Revenue  —  Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg and CEO Toni Schneider were interviewed by our own Alexia Tsotsis at Le Web 10 today.  Our live notes (paraphrased):  —  Can you talk about your vision from blogging and how it changed from 2003 to 2010?
Discussion: One Man & His Blog
Timothy Garton Ash / Guardian:
The foreign correspondent is dead.  Long live the foreign correspondent  —  The de luxe life satirised in Evelyn Waugh's Scoop has gone for good, but we can still preserve the best of a necessary craft  —  'I still have a suitcase in Berlin," Marlene Dietrich used to sing.
Amy Garmer / KnightComm:
Rethinking Public Media: More Local, More Inclusive, More Interactive  —  At a time when government funding for public broadcasting is hotly debated, Rethinking Public Media: More Local, More Inclusive, More Interactive, a new policy paper by Barbara Cochran, offers five broad strategies …
Discussion: CJR
 
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Speakeasy:
Departing NBCU Chief Zucker Considers Private Equity, Other Options
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
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