Mediagazer: The Cost of Cutting Cable (Steven Rosenbaum/Forbes)

11:30 AM ET, November 14, 2012

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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 …

Discussion: Business Insider, The Daily Beast and Forbes

Chuck Klosterman / Grantland:

I Lived a CIA Conspiracy Theory — I had an interesting weekend. Maybe you did, too. It's always a mixed bag, you know? Some Friday nights are drunken and exhilarating; other Friday nights are empty and reserved. And then, of course, there are those Friday nights when random people believe …

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Patrick Radden Keefe / The New Yorker Blog:

The Surveillance State Takes Friendly Fire — Last March, in a speech he delivered at a gathering orchestrated by In-Q-Tel, the venture-capital incubator of the Central Intelligence Agency, David Petraeus, the Agency's director, had occasion to ruminate on “the utter transparency of the digital world.”

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Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine:
The Media's Five Stages of David Petraeus Grief

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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

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.

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Katharine Weymouth: Stepping down was Brauchli's decision

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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Washington Post Hires New Top Editor; Here Are The Memos

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Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:
New Top Editor at Washington Post: Marcus Brauchli to Be Replaced by Marty Baron

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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 …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, NetNewsCheck Latest and kottke.org

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter: New longform science journalism site ‘Matter’ launches today

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.

Discussion: The Official Google TV Blog, TechCrunch, Forbes, Fast Company and CNET

Robert Andrews / paidContent:
After Flipboard and Tumblr, Chernin bets on YouTube video boom

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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.

Discussion: Noted, CJR, eMedia Vitals, AdAge and Marketing Pilgrim

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

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,” …

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

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:

Corbis Acquires Crowd-Sourced Photo Agency Demotix, After Its Move Into Apps — Image giant Corbis has acquired Demotix, the crowd-sourced, breaking news picture and video agency which launched in 2008 and recently hit the milestone of a million images uploaded.

Discussion: Demotix and GeekWire