Mediagazer: Tory party's News Corp links face fresh scrutiny over lobbyist's role (Rajeev Syal/Guardian)

8:35 AM ET, November 14, 2012

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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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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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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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Rupal Parekh / AdAge:

Whoops: Petraeus Given Starring Role in Newest ‘Call of Duty’ — War-Game Makers May Want to Think Twice About Using Real People — He may be embroiled in a dramatic and ever-growing scandal that cost him his job as CIA Director, but if it's any consolation, David Petraeus has retained …

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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:
Lesson from Petraeus: Your emails, and Gmail, aren't that private

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Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:

New Top Editor at Washington Post: Marcus Brauchli to Be Replaced by Marty Baron — The Washington Post, facing steep financial challenges and striving to find profitability as readers abandon print papers for digital formats, changed its newsroom leadership Tuesday.

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Katharine Weymouth: Stepping down was Brauchli's decision — Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth said the paper named a new executive editor Tuesday “because Marcus decided to step down at the end of the year.” I asked her, during a brisk and efficient phone call, if the decision was Brauchli's.

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

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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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Austin Carr / Fast Company:

YouTube Pairs With Google TV For Second-Screen Experience. Could iOS Be Next? — YouTube might finally work on a big-screen TV thanks to the latest app update, which automatically pairs Android devices with a Google TV on the same wireless network. — With a single swipe …

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Andrew Leonard / Salon:

Gallup is very upset at Nate Silver — The polling firm complains operations like FiveThirtyEight could spoil polling for everyone — Did Gallup just blame Nate Silver for ruining the art and science of polling? — You don't have to read too far between the lines of a statement …

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Rajeev Syal / Guardian:

Tory party's News Corp links face fresh scrutiny over lobbyist's role — James Wild, who oversaw BSkyB account of lobbying firm Hanover, to advise minister responsible for competition law — A lobbyist who oversaw his company's BSkyB account during Rupert Murdoch's attempt to gain control …

Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:

New York Times Staffers Vote To Ratify New Deal — After almost two years of contentious negotiations with management, New York Times staffers voted to ratify a new contract on Tuesday, the Newspaper Guild of New York announced. The deal, which is valid through March 30, 2016 …

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Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Universal Music Group nearing its digital tipping point — For the world's biggest music label, the days of revenue decline are over — and soon, it will be surviving mostly on digital money. — Universal Music Group, home to Lady Gaga and U2, on Tuesday reported that revenue …

Roy Peter Clark / Poynter:

The 6 media distortions that magnify national disappointments — I made a mental list today of the institutions that have been stained by recent sexual scandals and came up with: the Catholic Church, the Boy Scouts of America, Penn State University, the BBC, the CIA, Congress …

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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