Mediagazer: Stitcher Aims To Build Talk Radio's First Search Engine (Sarah Kessler/Fast Company)

7:00 AM ET, November 4, 2012

Top News:

Why political journalists can't stand Nate Silver: The limits of journalistic knowledge — The more I think about the rift between political journalism and Nate Silver, the more it seems that it's one that's fundamentally an issue of epistemology — how journalists know what they know.

Discussion: Reinventing the Newsroom, Jason Fry's Dorkery, Works Cited, @greenfield64, FAIR Blog, Gawker.com, Splice Today, The Week, HBR.org, The Atlantic Online, Groundswell and Brad DeLong

Zeynep Tufekci / Wired:

In Defense of Nate Silver, Election Pollsters, and Statistical Predictions — Nate Silver. Photo: Brian Finke — Nate Silver analyzes poll data on the influential FiveThiryEight blog at the New York Times. He crunches polls and other data in an electoral statistical model …

Discussion: PointOfLaw Forum, Salon and Mashable!

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
The Times's Washington Bureau Chief, and Legions of Others, in Defense of Nate Silver

Discussion: Mediaite, LA Observed, CJR, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Business Insider, Erik Wemple, @fivethirtyeight and PandoDaily

Politico:

Journalists open wallets for Obama and Romney — Reporters for Romney? Editors for Obama? — Numerous journalists — self-identified reporters, editors and photographers affiliated with established news organizations — contributed money in September and October to the campaigns of President Barack Obama or Mitt Romney.

Discussion: @darlin and @escarry

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

New York Magazine Captures the Look of Post-Sandy New York — To the list of New York institutions that saw their operations disrupted by the Superstorm known as Sandy last week, add New York Magazine. — With offices on Varick and Canal Streets, it is situated right at the borderline between …

Discussion: New York Magazine and Poynter

Dan Pacheco / MediaShift Idea Lab:

The Most Innovative Digital Coverage of Superstorm #Sandy — While I've been blogging on Idea Lab since 2008, this is my first post since starting my new job as the Peter Horvitz Chair of Journalism Innovation at Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School. In that role, I'm adopting an Idea Lab …

Discussion: New York Times

Michelle Atagana / memeburn:

CNN's head of social news: Twitter forces journos to report the news better — CNN accounted for about 13% of all social media mentions, according to trend analytics firm Trendrr earlier this year. That's impressive. Cable News Network is one of the largest news networks in the world …

Dan Nosowitz / Popular Science:

Meet The Climate Change Denier Who Became The Voice Of Hurricane Sandy On Wikipedia — Ken Mampel, an unemployed, 56-year-old Floridian, is in large part the creator of the massive Hurricane Sandy Wikipedia page. He's also the reason that, for nearly a week, the page had no mention of climate change.

Discussion: The Verge and Gawker.com

Sarah Kessler / Fast Company:

Stitcher Aims To Build Talk Radio's First Search Engine — At one point, “binders of women” and “Mitt Romney's tax return” were among the most discussed election-related topics on talk radio. With election day less than a week away, focus has switched to the U.S. national debt, the Benghazi attack, and the final presidential debate.

Discussion: MediaShift

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

PRSS aims to be a low-cost iPad magazine factory in the cloud — By launching their own iPad-only travel magazine, TRVL, in September 2010, entrepreneur Michel Elings and photographer and writer Jochem Wijnands garnered glowing reviews and a shout-out from Apple SVP Eddy Cue.

Edward Jay Epstein / CJR:

What journalists miss about the movie business — The vast preponderance of news reporting about Hollywood concerns the weekly box-office race. It is offered free to the media every Sunday afternoon by Nielsen EDI at a low point in its news cycle, packaged with punning headlines and quotes …

Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:

Curated video world news iPad app launches — Link TV World News offers videos from 125 sources, including Associated Press, Al Jazeera and the Telegraph, and encourages ‘social activism’ — A world news video app has launched for iPad which offers video coverage of breaking international news …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable and The Huffington Post

Derrick Harris / GigaOM:

MIT researcher says he can predict Twitter trends — A researcher at MIT claims to have developed an algorithm that can accurately predict what topics will trend on Twitter. But Twitter being a relatively minor business in the grand scheme of things, the algorithm might end up being more useful elsewhere …

Discussion: BetaNews, Engadget and Guardian

Erik Maza / WWD:

Chris Anderson to Exit Wired — With presidential politics and Hurricane news dominating the day's headlines, Friday could have scarcely been a better day to bury bombshell media announcements. And so it was that Condé Nast ceo Chuck Townsend said Wired editor in chief Chris Anderson …

Discussion: Style Ledger