Mediagazer: Engadget loses its second editor in two days: Ross Miller resigns (Matt Brian/The Next Web)

5:20 PM ET, February 20, 2011

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Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Engadget loses its second editor in two days: Ross Miller resigns — Engadget will be saying farewell to its second editor in the space of a week after its Associate Editor Ross Miller announced he was to leave the popular technology website after five years of service with Weblogs, Inc.

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Paul Carr / TechCrunch:

Paul Miller And The Five Rules Of Stunt Resignation — On Friday afternoon, Paul J. Miller caused what passes for a kerfuffle inside the technology journalism meta-bubble. — Miller, as you know, is “Senior Associate Editor” at our estranged sister site Engadget - or at least …

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Brad McCarty / The Next Web:

The AOL Way claims its first victim: Engadget editor Paul Miller resigns — A few weeks ago, in case you've missed the news, AOL released an internal document to its staff that was entitled The AOL Way. The documents contained what could be taken as a manifesto, of sorts, but really showed how AOL was intending to do business.

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Ryan Spoon:

Techmeme Figuring Out the Blend of Real-Time & Published News. — I had the following post written and in the my blog's queue (which is how I usually write / blog).... and then something happened: Twitter and UberTwitter tussled. — And as it broke on Friday, there was a mixture of real-time commentary …

Discussion: broadstuff and All Things Digital

Aleks Krotoski / Guardian:

The internet's effect on journalism — The web is a valuable tool, but old-fashioned press practices can still be best — For Peter Beaumont, this newspaper's foreign affairs editor, the revolution in Egypt revealed more than the power of the people in triumphing over repressive regimes …

Chris Ariens / mediabistro.com:

Martin Bashir MSNBC Show Debuts Feb. 28; Thomas Roberts to Anchor 11am Hour — Martin Bashir's MSNBC show will finally hit the airwaves Monday, February 28, at 3pmET. The network also announced that Thomas Roberts, who has been filling in at 3pm, will now anchor the 11amET hour which means …

Discussion: Chickaboomer and The Huffington Post

ProPublica:

Female Foreign Correspondents' Code of Silence, Finally Broken — This piece was co-published in the New York Times — Thousands of men blocked the road, surrounding the S.U.V. of the chief justice of Pakistan, a national hero for standing up to military rule.

Discussion: Chickaboomer

Tim Arango / New York Times:

The Murdoch in Waiting — ON a night in late January when he should have been in the Swiss village of Davos, James Murdoch went to dinner here with his father, Rupert, and several journalists from The Sun, the tabloid that the Murdochs have owned since 1969.

Discussion: Guardian

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

Bloggers, publishers and the Apple lockdown — Bloggers like simplicity. They view themselves as computer industry geniuses, as the embodiment of a fantasied future, vectors for all forms of intellectual life, culture, news, entertainment... Bloggers believe in a world where traditional publishing …

Discussion: Washington Post and Future of Journalism

Bill Carter / Media Decoder:

MSNBC Hosts Settle In After Olbermann — MSNBC has certainly felt the impact of the departure of its most successful host, Keith Olbermann, last month, though the network has not suffered anything that could be called a collapse. — Ratings for the host who replaced Mr. Olbermann …

Discussion: Inside Cable News

BBC:

Larry King claims Piers Morgan was ‘oversold’ to US — Larry King (right) bowed out in December after presenting his CNN talk show for 25 years — Former long-running CNN talk show host Larry King has claimed his successor Piers Morgan was “oversold” to US television audiences.

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

BBC Charts New Course for its U.S. Newscast — Tapping into what it sees as a need for impartial international news on cable, the BBC said Friday that it would aggressively seek distribution in the United States for BBC World News America, its 24-hour news channel. — But that's in the long term.

Discussion: Mediaite