Mediagazer: The Quandary for Biographers: Get Up Close, but How Personal? (Leslie Kaufman/New York Times)

11:55 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 …

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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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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.

Patrick Radden Keefe / The New Yorker Blog:
The Surveillance State Takes Friendly Fire

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

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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 …

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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 …

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.

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

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

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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

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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.

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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 …

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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 …

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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.

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.

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