Mediagazer: London 2012 and data journalism: what did we learn at the Olympics? (Simon Rogers/Guardian)

6:50 AM ET, August 16, 2012

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Josh Halliday / Guardian:

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Jacob Young / Wired:

WIRED and Jonah Lehrer, for the record... We want to ensure that there is no confusion regarding reports today about writer Jonah Lehrer and WIRED. Jonah has not been “hired” by WIRED; he's been a contributing editor at the magazine and the website for years.

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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Wired sticks with liar, fabricator

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Wall Street Journal:

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Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

13 ways of looking at Medium, the new blogging/sharing/discovery platform from @ev and Obvious — [With apologies to Wallace Stevens, the finest poet to ever serve as vice president of the Hartford Livestock Insurance Company.] — I. — Medium is a new online publishing platform from Obvious Corp. It launched yesterday.

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Washington Post corrects story that said Fareed Zakaria lifted quote — Tuesday, The Washington Post's Paul Farhi reported (and I repeated) Clyde V. Prestowitz's contention that Fareed Zakaria didn't cite a quote of his in Zakaria's book “The Post-American World.”

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Simon Rogers / Guardian:

London 2012 and data journalism: what did we learn at the Olympics? — It was two weeks of elite sport, emotion - and data. So how did we deal with it and what did we learn? These are the 12 lessons we learned from London 2012 — • More data journalism and data visualisations from the Guardian

Erik Wemple:

No more TBD.com — This may be one of the last times that TBD.com does what it's most famous for. Getting media attention, that is. — When I attempted to log onto the site this afternoon, nothing approaching the TBD.com template popped up. Instead, I was redirected to WJLA.com …

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Michael Wolff / Guardian:

Mark Thompson at the New York Times: the enviable position of being Arthur Sulzberger's No 2 — The BBC director general can't expect much power at the New York Times. Better yet, he won't have much responsibility either — Mark Thompson, the director general of the BBC …

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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
NYT's new CEO: BBC's Thompson is custodian and curator, not digital creator

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Lewis DVorkin / Forbes:

Inside Forbes: A New Language of Journalism Speaks to the Rebirth of a Profession — As chief product officer, I spend a lot of time talking with people outside FORBES about our unique model for journalism. Here's one question I get asked all the time: “What exactly are you guys up to?”

Mohammed Ademo / CJR:

Media restrictions tighten in Ethiopia — One of the last remaining independent newspapers was recently shuttered by the government — Government charges against of one of Ethiopia's last remaining independent newspaper editors on Friday and a recent forced shutdown of that paper's presses capped …

Michael Hudson / The International Consortium …:

The Question Investigative Reporters Fail to Ask — Morton Mintz wasn't a cloak and dagger kind of reporter. His muckraking stories on public health dangers and corporate misconduct rarely relied on secret, Deep Throat-style informants. Instead he produced three decades' worth of Page …

Adrian Holovaty:

Onto the next chapter — In July 2007, I founded a company called EveryBlock. August 31 will be my last day at the company. — I've worked on this for five years, three of those after selling it to msnbc.com, and I've developed an uncontrollable itch to do something new.

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Stephen Foley / The Independent:

Bad news for Reuters — It is 161 years since Paul Julius Reuter, a German-born entrepreneur whose first venture in the news business was sending carrier pigeons across Europe, installed himself in the London Stock Exchange, called himself the Reuter's Telegram Company and started selling …

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