Mediagazer: You don't have to write like a businessperson just because you cover business (Robert MacMillan)

3:55 PM ET, April 10, 2011

Top News:

Jonathan Strong / The Daily Caller:

NPR survives 11th hour spending deal — Despite several ugly recent episodes and considerable movement by conservative activists to defund it, federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and National Public Radio survived an 11th hour deal on a spending bill to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year.

Discussion: @tummler10 and Big Journalism

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 »

MediaShift:

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, Gawker, The Staggers and The Nation

Arthur S. Brisbane / New York Times:

Juggling the World, Wearily — A DAY in the life of the New York Times foreign desk begins with Laurent Gbagbo holed up in the basement of his fortified residence in the Ivory Coast's main coastal city of Abidjan. — As the day progresses, The Times's foreign operation will reel in stories …

Robert MacMillan:

You don't have to write like a businessperson just because you cover business — I'm already trying to edit myself. That headline is off. It should say, “You should not write like a businessperson just because you cover business.” — You often might think to yourself, upon reading my blog posts, “yes, of course, Robert.

Discussion: Talking Biz News

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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.