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6:55 PM ET, August 28, 2011

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Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:
A Hurricane of Hype  —  Irene fell far short of the media's dire warnings even before it was downgraded.  Howard Kurtz on the scaremongering by television and local officials.
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Matthew Lynley / VentureBeat:
Hurricane Irene mayhem chronicled via Instagram  —  Instagram users hunkered down in New York, New Jersey and other cities in the path of the rather menacing-looking Hurricane Irene are chronicling the mayhem through an online Instagram photo album called Instacane.
John Frank / Raleigh News & Observer:
It's not glamorous to cover a hurricane  —  NAGS HEAD — As darkness fell Saturday a surge of water from the sound flooded Nags Head, in what served as Hurricane Irene's final curse on this spit of sand that guards against the Atlantic Ocean.  —  Just then, my cellphone rang.
Discussion: Pat's Papers
Arthur S. Brisbane / New York Times:
Financial News for the Rest of Us  —  WILL readers of The New York Times in print get less because The Times must invest to compete for readers and advertisers in the digital medium?  —  The DealBook business news product may offer an early indication.  DealBook, which was greatly expanded last fall …
Discussion: Future of Journalism
New York Times:
Accounts of Chinese Bloggers Suspended, Causing Protests  —  BEIJING — The operators of China's most vibrant equivalent of Twitter notified each of its 200 million users Friday that several bloggers deemed to have spread unfounded rumors would have their accounts suspended for one month.
David Carr / New York Times:
Steve Jobs Reigned in a Kingdom of Altered Landscapes  —  Earlier this year, I wrote a column about the publishing industry's resistance to the terms Apple was imposing for subscriptions on the iPad.  Soon after, an e-mail was followed by a phone call and Steve Jobs was on the line to straighten me out.
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Does the press have an ethical duty to out powerful gays in tech?  —  The following editorial deals with topics that we believe are relevant to technology journalism.  While this subject matter is uncommon at Ars, it is not unprecedented.  —  Do journalists have a duty to “out” so-called “closeted” gay people?
Paul Carr / TechCrunch:
Now Can We All Agree That The “High Quality Web Content” Experiment Has Failed?  —  It's hard to imagine anything more perfect than Slate's decision to lay off its respected media critic Jack Shafer.  Not perfect in a good way — I count myself amongst Shafer's legions of fans …
Discussion: Future of Journalism
Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:
Sky's Alex Crawford: ‘sexist’ to ask if motherhood compatible with frontline  —  Correspondent who reported live as rebel convoy entered Tripoli reveals how she copes with the risks and dangers of her job  —  Her four children ask why she can't work at their school but Alex Crawford …
Maria Popova / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Accessibility vs. access: How the rhetoric of “rare” is changing in the age of information abundance  —  A Rare Glimpse of William Burroughs' Belongings, proclaimed a recent Fast Company headline.  But what does “rare” really mean these days?  A photograph indexed by Google is hardly “rare …
Discussion: TeleRead
Ben Popper / Betabeat:
Henry Blodget Says Kara Swisher Helped Groupon Violate SEC Quiet Period  —  I'm telling you this Pets.com is a winner!  —  Henry Blodget knows a thing or two about securities violations.  During the dot-com boom he rose to the the position of number one Internet analyst at Merrill Lynch.
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
Tuning into Kai Ryssdal's ‘Marketplace’  —  The L.A.-based public radio program, among the few major economic shows not based in New York, has grown its audience.  —  The voice coming out of the radio sounded folksy and a bit worn-out, speaking words so honest they almost made you feel embarrassed to be listening in.
Discussion: Talking Biz News
 
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