Mediagazer: Going against the conventional wisdom — Pay attention when things don't make sense. (Sarah Frier/Talking Biz News)

7:35 AM ET, April 10, 2011

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WikiLeaks' Julian Assange, NY Times Feud at Logan Symposium — BERKELEY, CALIF. — I am at the 5th Annual Reva and David Logan Investigative Reporting Symposium, a gathering of the top investigative journalists that happens each year at University of California at Berkeley.

Discussion: Guardian and The Nation

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Facebook Gives Ad.ly's Celebrity Endorsement Business the Boot — Ad.ly thinks there's big money to be made getting celebrities to sell stuff using social media platforms. But it says Facebook won't let it set up shop. — Ad.ly says that at Facebook's insistence, it has stopped selling …

Discussion: TechCrunch and The Next Web, more at Techmeme »

Craig Silverman / CJR:

Is This the World's Best Twitter Account? — Meet Andy Carvin, verification machine — Yesterday morning NPR's Andy Carvin took a break from running one of the world's best Twitter accounts to explain what it's like to be a living, breathing real-time verification system.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Journalists Are Aggregators Too (And That's A Good Thing) — A few weeks ago, when the NYTimes' Bill Keller bizarrely compared Arianna Huffington to a Somali pirate, we noted that journalism is a form of aggregation as well. After all, you're taking content from the people who actually make news …

MediaShift Idea Lab:

Why Are Newsrooms Resistant to Creating Newsgames? — This past weekend a group of 25 game developers, academics and journalists gathered at the University of Minnesota's Journalism Center to examine the state of newsgames. While it can be a slippery term to define, generally speaking newsgames covers …

Henry Blodget / SAI:

The Amazing Media Habits Of 8-18 Year Olds — Kids are leading the world's transition to digital media. — This is in part because kids aren't afraid of technology, and in part because kids haven't spent years getting use to anything else. — So if you want to get a sense …

Sarah Frier / Talking Biz News:

Going against the conventional wisdom — Pay attention when things don't make sense. — That's how New York Times investigations editor for the business and finance desk Walt Bogdanich comes up with his story ideas. If a source says something unexpected in conversation …

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Down to the Wire Deal Keeps Government Open and Cablers Reporting — Around 10:30, the cable networks began reporting on a deal to keep the government running. The husband and wife CNN team of John King and Dana Bash broke the news during “Anderson Cooper 360.”

Discussion: New York Times, FishbowlDC, Mediaite and Media Decoder

Rob Walker / New York Times:

On ‘Radiolab,’ the Sound of Science — Jad Abumrad was talking about “tension” —the tension between the certainty of science and mysteries that inspire wonder; between authenticity and artifice; between a sound that feels carefully constructed and one that feels anarchic and alive.

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

AOL Permalancers Speak: ‘We Were Very Clearly Employees’ — How many of the freelancers AOL let go earlier this week were people who, legally, could potentially be construed as employees rather than mere contract workers? Because it's a question with some pretty interesting implications …

Discussion: Editors Weblog

David Folkenflik / NPR:

Bret Baier: The Next Generation Of Fox News Anchor … If the only thing you know about Bret Baier is that he's a Fox News anchor, the moment that sticks in your mind would be his interview a year ago with President Obama. — It took place in the Blue Room of the White House …

Discussion: The Wire, The Atlantic Wire, Poynter, TVNewser and Mediaite

Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review:

Page views offer only a small part of the picture in a newsroom compensation plan — By Robert Niles: How should the pay for online journalists be determined? — Pay for work is always a sensitive question. Pay, after all, quantifies work. And since most people pour more than a bit …

Discussion: mediabistro.com and Editors Weblog