Mediagazer: Fox News Contesting Its Own Election Call (Rebecca Shapiro/The Huffington Post)

7:05 AM ET, November 7, 2012

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Marc Tracy / The New Republic:

Nate Silver Is a One-Man Traffic Machine for the Times — “FiveThirtyEight is drawing huge traffic,” New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson told me yesterday. She added, “What's interesting is a lot of the traffic is coming just for Nate.” — There has been plenty of controversy …

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Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview:

Nate @fivethirtyeight Silver has his very own dedicated copy editor tonight. And no one would begrudge such a thing, given his traffic.

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Amy Willis / Telegraph:

Republican Karl Rove calls Barack Obama Fox News projection ‘premature’ — Karl Rove, George W Bush's former deputy chief of staff, called a projection that Barack Obama had won the US election “premature” last night and disputed early results in Ohio. CNN, the Associated Press …

Rebecca Shapiro / The Huffington Post:

Fox News Contesting Its Own Election Call — Fox News' Chris Wallace said that Gov. Mitt Romney's campaign is contesting the network's decision to call President Obama's re-election. Wallace said: “Well I have great respect for our decision desk, and I can see that they're very happy in Chicago …

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Reuters:
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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The New York Times is trying to make its mobile apps more than simple containers for news stories — Each cycle, live election coverage serves as a premier testbed for online news. Now The New York Times is using it as a test bed for pushing news in apps beyond the rigid templates that have characterized the form.

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