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George Entwistle / BBC:
Statement from George Entwistle — In the light of the fact that the Director-General is also the Editor-in-Chief and ultimately responsible for all content; and in the light of the unacceptable journalistic standards of the Newsnight film broadcast on Friday 2nd November …
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Emily Bell / CJR:
What's happening at the BBC — The Corporation is facing a serious challenge to its future and to its independence — “To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.” — A very British crisis needs a very British epigraph.
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BBC:
George Entwistle resigns as BBC director general — George Entwistle made his statement outside New Broadcasting House — The BBC's director general, George Entwistle, has resigned in the wake of the Newsnight child abuse broadcast. — In a statement given outside New Broadcasting House …
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Reuters:
BBC must reform or die, says Trust chairman — (Reuters) - BBC director general George Entwistle resigned just two months into the job, after the state-funded broadcaster put out a program denounced by its chairman as shoddy journalism. — The BBC, reeling from revelations …
John Ware / Guardian:
A personal tragedy, and a hammer blow for an honest institution — Paralysis at the top left the BBC's Newsnight exposed. Will this be rectified following Entwistle's departure? — The resignation of George Entwistle as the BBC's director general is both a personal tragedy and a hammer-blow for the BBC.
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John Plunkett / Guardian:
Newsnight insiders fear it will not survive scandal — BBC2 current affairs programme under threat after false claims of child abuse by senior Tory — Newsnight staffers past and present were gathered at a London club to celebrate its former editor Peter Barron's 50th birthday …
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
BBC in crisis as George Entwistle resigns
BBC in crisis as George Entwistle resigns
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Which Polls Fared Best (and Worst) in the 2012 Presidential Race — As Americans' modes of communication change, the techniques that produce the most accurate polls seems to be changing as well. In last Tuesday's presidential election, a number of polling firms that conduct their surveys online had strong results.
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Spencer Ackerman / Wired:
How I Was Drawn Into the Cult of David Petraeus — Gen. David Petraeus gives the thumbs up with his wife Holly at his retirement ceremony. Photo: DOD — When it came out that CIA Director David Petraeus had an affair with his hagiographer, I got punked. “It seems so obvious in retrospect.
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Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
Can NowThis News Crack Mobile Video? — News clearly needs a healthy dose of reinvention. NowThis News is an ambitious attempt to do just that with news video made for a mobile world. — NowThis, founded by former Huffington Post execs Ken Lerer and Eric Hippeau and backed by $5 million …
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Jason Del Rey / AdAge:
News App Pulse Bets Big on Sponsored Content and Bite-Size Content Subscriptions — Brings in More Than $300,000 a Month Off Inbound Interest — They both are news-reading apps, they both claim 20 million users, and they're both less than three years old.
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Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:
For New York Times' Sake, Mark Thompson Should Step Aside — Scandals are the order of the day, from David Petraeus' emergency resignation this week to the implosion of BBC leadership, as its new Director-General George Entwistle announces his own hurried departure today.
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Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:
Spotify Is Having A Good 2012: Revenues Could Reach $500M As It Expands The Digital Music Market — Spotify, the streaming music startup, was having serious trouble paying its bills, if you believed reports from earlier this year. Its 2011 financials showed a loss of nearly $60 million on revenues of $244 million.
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