Mediagazer: “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” (Mike Daisey)

8:25 PM ET, March 19, 2012

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“Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” — Many consider this week's THIS AMERICAN LIFE episode one of the most painful they've ever listened to. In particular the segment with me is excruciating—four hours of grilling edited down to fifteen minutes.

Discussion: The latest episodes …, The Wrap, @jayrosen_nyu, Via Meadia, CNET, Slate, @kashhill, @jackshafer, Techland, The Stranger …, The Huffington Post, PopWatch and Poynter

Craig Silverman / Poynter:

4 important truths about Mike Daisey's lies & the way ‘This American Life’ told them — Fact checking is a real process, but what “This America Life” did wasn't fact checking. — When the news broke that “This American Life” was retracting the episode “Mr. Daisey Goes to the Apple Factory …

Discussion: CJR, CNET, CNET, The Huffington Post, Innovation in College Media, Radio & Television …, 9to5Mac, Techland, App Advice, The Stranger … and Gizmodo

Matthew Baldwin / defective yeti:

Putting the I in Story — I worked as a customer service rep at Amazon in the late 90s, at the same time as Mike Daisey. I don't think he and I ever interacted one-on-one, but I knew who he was, saw him around the ol' cube farm, and received the emails he periodically sent to the department …

Discussion: Mashable!, Gawker and Fast Company

Adrian Chen / Gawker:
How I Was Duped By Mike Daisey's Lies

Discussion: Betabeat, Erik Wemple, The Next Web, BetaNews and The Atlantic Online

David Carr / New York Times:
Theater, Disguised as Real Journalism

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Jeff Roberts / paidContent:

Newspapers And Video: Slow And Steady Or Flood The Zone? — The Wall Street Journal (NSDQ: NWS) has embraced video with gusto. The venerable paper is pumping out hours of live news clips and splashing them onto everything from the iPhone to the X-Box. — According to Alisa Bowen …

Discussion: Beet.TV and NetNewsCheck Latest, Thanks:@jeffjohnroberts

Jeff Roberts / paidContent:

Why The Wall Street Journal Isn't Adding Digital To Its Sunday Edition — Common wisdom says there's no future in print newspapers and that the rest of the country is fed up with Wall Street. But both propositions fall flat in the case of the Wall Street Journal (NSDQ: NWS) Sunday edition.

Discussion: Talking Biz News

John Cook / GeekWire:

Newspapers take it on the chin as online ad revenue falls into the hands of a few tech giants — Americans are spending more time consuming news, using devices such as smartphones and tablets to track events on the go. But even as news consumption rises, the traditional media companies …

Discussion: Hillicon Valley, Forbes, TVNewser, Kirk LaPointe's …, Forbes and Nieman Journalism Lab

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Pew: Twitter, Facebook Aren't Moving As Much News As You Think

Discussion: GigaOM, Adam Sherk, Guardian, TPM IdeaLab, Betabeat, Online NewsHour and eMedia Vitals

stateofthemedia.org:
What Facebook and Twitter Mean for News

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

A year into the ‘Times’ digital subscription program, analysts and insiders see surprising success, and more challenges to come — Almost exactly a year ago, on March 17, about two dozen New York Times employees gathered in a conference room not far from where the paper's journalists …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Capital New York and JIMROMENESKO.COM

Alan Travis / Guardian:

Murdoch met Thatcher before Times takeover — The media mogul requested a meeting at Chequers to personally lobby the PM, and explicitly briefed her on his bid - something long denied by both sides — • Read the original documents here — A secret meeting between Rupert Murdoch …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk and The Independent

Daily Mail:
FBI threaten to step in on Met's investigation into Rupert Murdoch's empire in case Scotland Yard ‘drops the ball’

Discussion: The Independent

Natalie Peck / Hacking inquiry:
News of the World jeopardised Ipswich murders investigation, claims former police investigator

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk

Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:

Where Pimps Peddle Their Goods — I WENT on a walk in Manhattan the other day with a young woman who once had to work these streets, hired out by eight pimps while she was just 16 and 17. She pointed out a McDonald's where pimps sit while monitoring the girls outside …

Discussion: NYConvergence.com and Via Meadia

Pandora Young / FishbowlLA:
Former Underage Prostitute Sold on Backpage.com: ‘Like Going Back to Slave Times’

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

AOL Prepping New Weekly iPad Magazine Called ‘Huffington’ — Eat your heart out, Oprah. (Not actually what it will look like, probably.) — At a conference in London today, David Shing, AOL's “digital prophet” (actually his title), expressed a strong view on the superiority of websites …

Discussion: The Next Web

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Vimeo Gets a New Boss: AOL, Yahoo Vet Kerry Trainor — Earlier this year, video site Vimeo showed off a new look. Now it has a new CEO: Kerry Trainor, who just left his job overseeing AOL's entertainment and video properties. — Trainor replaces Dae Mellencamp, who has been running the site since 2009.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, PC Magazine, Forbes, PR Newswire, VentureBeat and Betabeat

John Plunkett / Guardian:

Mark Thompson to step down in autumn — UK's top TV executive confirms he is to leave after the Olympics — BBC director general Mark Thompson has confirmed he will step down from the role in the autumn following the London Olympics. — Thompson, who has been in the job since 2004 …

Discussion: Digital Spy, Media Decoder, bbc.co.uk, Press Gazette, Deadline.com, Broadcasting & Cable and Journalism.co.uk

Keach Hagey / Politico:

Breitbart to announce new management — Two of Andrew Breitbart's closest friends and business associates are stepping in to take over the roles he held in his eponymous media company and carry out the expansion plans he made before his sudden death earlier this month.

Discussion: mediabistro.com and FishbowlLA

Daniel Frankel / paidContent:

Nielsen, GroupM To Develop New Ratings Tool — As more people watch TV content on something other than TV, ad firms and their clients are eager for a tool that lets them analyze the success of TV advertising across those devices and platforms. Recently, there's been a burst of activity on that front.

Discussion: ClickZ