Mediagazer: Foxy Nate Silver and why old-media hedgehogs could soon be old news (Hamish McKenzie/PandoDaily)

7:55 PM ET, November 2, 2012

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Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:

Foxy Nate Silver and why old-media hedgehogs could soon be old news — Nate Silver - statistician, analyst, blogger, author, and Xanax for liberals - is a one-man startup, and his brand is on the line. Aside from the candidates themselves, perhaps no man stands to lose more from this election.

Discussion: Salon, Wired, Mashable!, JIMROMENESKO.COM, The Atlantic Online, FAIR Blog, The Week, Gawker.com and HBR.org

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

The Times's Washington Bureau Chief, and Legions of Others, in Defense of Nate Silver — Nate Silver, author of the FiveThirtyEight blog on NYTimes.com, may be under attack from some people, as I noted in a post on Thursday but he also has many defenders. — Hundreds of them wrote to me in e-mails …

Discussion: Groundswell, Erik Wemple, @fivethirtyeight and CJR

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Sorry, Margaret, You Need to Get Out More

Discussion: Poynter, @felixsalmon, The Awl, Brad DeLong, The Daily Dish, Deadspin.com Updates, Quote and Comment and @moorehn

Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:

Twitter to Add Photo Filters to Compete With Instagram — Twitter is finally learning a lesson from Facebook: If you can't buy it, build it. — In the coming months, Twitter plans to update its mobile applications to introduce filters for photos that will allow people to share altered images …

Discussion: Mashable!, TechCrunch, CNET, GigaOM, ReadWrite, The Next Web, The Verge and Business Insider

Pew Research Center:

Journalist Alan Murray Named President of Pew Research Center — Washington (Nov. 2) — Veteran journalist Alan Murray, currently deputy managing editor and executive editor, online, for The Wall Street Journal, has been named President of the Pew Research Center, succeeding public opinion expert Andrew Kohut …

Discussion: Reuters, JIMROMENESKO.COM, FishbowlNY, Politico, Poynter and www.wnyc.org

Capital New York: Who will be the next editor of ‘The Wall Street Journal’? Not Alan Murray

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

Twitter Releases Numbers Related To Hurricane Sandy: More Than 20M Tweets Sent During Its Peak — As you know, the devastation of Hurricane Sandy has hit millions. Many turned to Twitter to discuss what they were going through. Today, the company shared some interesting facts and numbers having …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, The Next Web, Forbes, CNET, Home Media Magazine and Softpedia News

Anna Codrea-Rado / CJR:
It's about the info, not the outlet

Discussion: The Next Web, Betabeat and Softpedia News

Steven Mufson / Washington Post:

The Washington Post Co. reports higher earnings — The Washington Post Co. reported sharply higher earnings in the third quarter of this year, bolstered by cable television profits, political and summer Olympic Game advertising on its local television broadcast stations, and a one-time accounting benefit.

Discussion: MediaPost, Broadcasting & Cable, Politico and AdAge

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: TV earnings up, print earnings down at Washington Post

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Pew: ‘MSNBC was more negative in its treatment of Romney than Fox was of Obama’ — Between the last week of August and the third week of October, 38 percent of campaign coverage studied by Pew's Project for Excellence in Journalism was “what is typically called horserace coverage …

Discussion: Forbes, Journalism.org, CNN, CNET, Mashable! and The Verge

Mark Walsh / MediaPost:
Social Media Harsh On Presidential Candidates

Discussion: Forbes, Journalism.org and CNET

Emma Bazilian / Adweek:

The Search Is On for Wired's Next Editor — The publishing world got an end-of-the-workweek surprise today when Wired announced that editor in chief Chris Anderson in stepping down after 11 years on the job. Anderson is leaving Wired at the end of the year to become the full-time CEO of 3D Robotics, a company he co-founded in 2009.

Erik Maza / WWD:
Chris Anderson to Exit Wired

Discussion: Style Ledger

Anthony Crupi / Adweek:

Storm may have cost media industry half a billion dollars — Already looking rocky at the start of the fourth quarter, the media economy this week was dealt a staggering blow by Hurricane Sandy. — In disrupting local TV and radio broadcasts and putting a halt to all New York media buying …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

Sandy Brings Back Prime Time for Original Wireless Network: Radio — Amid Continuing Blackout, Medium Is the Only Game in Town — Batteries are drained, internet connections long-gone. For the nearly 5 million households muddling through a fourth day without power in the wake of Hurricane Sandy …

Discussion: Yahoo! News, Forbes, Broadcasting & Cable and Capital New York

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

BitTorrent Pirate Ordered to Pay $1.5 Million Damages For Sharing 10 Movies — Since early 2010, hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. have been sued for downloading and sharing copyrighted content on BitTorrent. — Nearly all of these cases end up dismissed or settled …

Discussion: Forbes, Techdirt, Pocket-lint, Softpedia News and CNET

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Why Time Magazine Used Instagram To Cover Hurricane Sandy — If there was still any debate about whether serious photojournalism can take place in the context of camera phones and cutesy retro filters, it's over now. — To document the effects of Hurricane Sandy on the northeast …

Discussion: The Next Web, The Verge, FishbowlNY and Poynter

Emma Bazilian / Adweek:

Quartz Exceeds First-Month Expectations — Atlantic Media Company launched the business news site Quartz in late September, aimed at the world's financial elite with a mobile-first approach. The content designed in an app-like setting ideally performs well enough on smartphone and tablet platforms …

Discussion: Folio

Julie Moos / Poynter:

New York Times to restore paywall after 5 days of free access — The New York Times will restore its paywall later today, after providing five days of free access as a public service during Hurricane Sandy. — A note on the Times' website reads: … Once the paywall is restored, non-subscribers can read only 10 articles.

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

LongTail Raises $5 Million to Take on Web Video Heavyweights — Remember the Web video boom? Most of the venture capital buzz is now directed at mobile ads, a small market that's supposed to grow like a weed. Meanwhile, video is dominated by Google/YouTube, with everyone else way, way, way behind.

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

E-Sports Video Streaming Platform, Twitch, Partners With Sony Online Entertainment To Add One-Click Casting To PlanetSide 2 MMO — The e-sports juggernaut keeps on trucking: live-streaming video platform Twitch is partnering with Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) to incorporate in-game live streaming …

Discussion: Mashable!

Associated Press:

News media play big role in figuring out election winners long before vote count ends — WASHINGTON Ever hear about national elections where the winners arenÂ't known for days as government officials count votes and double-check results? Thank goodness we donÂ't have to wait …