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12:50 PM ET, November 14, 2012

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David Simon:
Stray penises and politicos  —  I can remember the specific moment when I swore off the sex lives of the famous as journalistic currency.  It was the case of a national sportscaster — I won't name him, but, alas, most of those old enough will remember the name, which is regrettable — whose sex life had suddenly become the media chow.
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Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:
The Quandary for Biographers: Get Up Close, but How Personal?  —  When Doris Kearns Goodwin was still young and unknown and writing her biography of former President Lyndon B. Johnson, she stayed at his Texas ranch.  Sometimes, she said in the book's prologue, when he could not sleep …
Chuck Klosterman / Grantland:
I Lived a CIA Conspiracy Theory
Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine:
The Media's Five Stages of David Petraeus Grief
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Kickstarter-backed journalism startup Matter publishes its first story  —  Matter, the science and technology journalism startup that raised over $140,000 from 2,566 backers on Kickstarter, is launching with its first article Wednesday.  GigaOM readers are already quite familiar …
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Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
New longform science journalism site ‘Matter’ launches today  —  Matter, a site that publishes longform stories about science and technology, launched today.  The site, which will publish one story per month, is open to people who sign up as members.  For 99 cents, they'll get access to monthly stories …
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Google TV update adds voice control, taps into Knowledge Graph  —  Google announced the next big update for Google TV Wednesday, bringing advanced voice control, a new programming guide app and all kinds of smarts derived from Google's Knowledge Graph to the platform.
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
After Flipboard and Tumblr, Chernin bets on YouTube video boom
Discussion: Media Week and Business Wire
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:   YouTube's Magic Number
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
News companies see a financial future in brand-sponsored digital content  —  More and more media organizations are declaring that content sponsored or produced by brands (the new buzzword is “native advertising") is a major part of their future digital business models.
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Jack Marshall / Digiday:
The Mobile Banner: A Dog That Won't Hunt  —  The “analog dollars for digital dimes” analogy has become mere pennies in mobile.  That could be because publishers are still flogging display ads and marketers just aren't that interested.  —  Despite the hype perpetuated by mobile ad companies …
Discussion: eMedia Vitals and Nxtblog
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Marty Baron stories dwell on cuts at The Washington Post  —  Boston Globe Editor Marty Baron is The Washington Post's incoming executive editor.  Profiles and accounts of his ascendance all praise his journalism career, then rue the cuts that presumably face him.
Discussion: Washington Post and Memex 1.1
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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Washington Post Hires New Top Editor; Here Are The Memos
Discussion: City Desk
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
A Mormon Reporter On The Romney Bus  —  On the night of the South Carolina Republican primary in January, I sat near the front of a dark campaign press bus, and listened to reporters talk about Mitt Romney's underwear.  —  Earlier in the day, one of them had happened upon the candidate …
Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
Producer Leaves ‘Today’ Show to Direct Olympics for NBC Universal  —  When Jim Bell was in charge of production of the London Olympics for NBC Universal, he was still the executive producer of the “Today” show.  —  His double duty officially ended on Tuesday when he left “Today,” …
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Time to go for Huey  —  Editor-in-chief likely to step down for Nelson  —  John Huey, who was relaxing at the Time magazine Person of the Year luncheon yesterday, is expected to step down as editor-in-chief of the Time Inc. empire by the end of the year, Media Ink has learned.
Discussion: Capital New York
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
Why did Pete Wells review Guy Fieri's restaurant as a series of questions?  —  After he visited Guy Fieri's American Kitchen & Bar in Times Square, Pete Wells wanted to know why the Awesome Pretzel Chicken Tenders were so far from awesome, and why the bourbon butter crunch chips were missing from his Almond Joy cocktail.
Discussion: The Wrap, The Awl and New York Times
Steven Rosenbaum / Forbes:
The Cost of Cutting Cable  —  It is all my wife's fault.  More than a year ago, after I'd written a number of blog posts about the importance of choice in video, and the fact that cable was dragging their feet in the a la carte world, she called my bluff.  “Ok, if you're so sure there's better stuff …
Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times:
New Fox app enables television commerce  —  The new FoxNow application provides viewers with enhanced interactive and social features related to the network's shows.  (Fox Broadcast Network)  —  For decades, networks have experimented with T-commerce — technologies that would allow viewers …
Discussion: AppNewser
Josh Ong / The Next Web:
Following on Microsoft's $300 million investment, Barnes & Noble releases Windows 8 NOOK app  —  Barnes & Noble and Microsoft completed formation of their joint e-reading venture last month and the first fruits of their collaboration have finally emerged in the form of the NOOK app for Windows 8 and Windows RT.
Discussion: paidContent, GeekWire and The Verge
 
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Steve Jordon / Omaha World-Herald:
Buffett company to close Va. newspaper, cut 105 jobs
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Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
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Rajeev Syal / Guardian:
Tory party's News Corp links face fresh scrutiny over lobbyist's role
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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Tuesday Q&A: Tumblr editor Jessica Bennett on new platforms for news and the rise of the GIF
Discussion: The Wall Blog and SocialTimes
Roy Peter Clark / Poynter:
The 6 media distortions that magnify national disappointments
Andrew Leonard / Salon:
Gallup is very upset at Nate Silver
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Bryan Cranston, Padma Lakshmi, Newt Gingrich, Matt Lauer, Michael Nutter cast non-Obama votes …
Tim Kenneally / The Wrap:
L.A. Times Wins $266K From Photographer David Strick
Discussion: LA Observed
Reuters:
Former Disney CEO Eisner back in moviemaking with Universal
David Holmes / PandoDaily:
News app editor Lauren Rabaino brings a startup mentality to the Seattle Times
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
First female editor named at Broadcasting & Cable
Discussion: TechCrunch
Tom Fornelli / CBSSports.com:
Washington sets limit on amount of tweets from credentialed media
Discussion: Deadspin, GeekWire, Techdirt and Lost Remote
 

 
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU

Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat:
Stability AI debuts Stable Video 3D, a generative AI tool built on its Stable Video Diffusion model, letting users create 3D video from a text or image prompt

Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central:
Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, allowing a group of up to six Steam users to share their games, manage parental controls, and more

 
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