Mediagazer: BBC Arabic and the complexities of the Arab world (Faris Couri/BBC)

7:15 AM ET, February 4, 2013

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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

The Verge Hires Writer Who Quit CNET in Protest — Greg Sandoval, the CNET senior writer who resigned in protest when the site's parent company, CBS, interfered with its editorial coverage last month, has been hired by The Verge, the Web site that first revealed the full extent of CBS's involvement.

Discussion: @brianstelter, New York Magazine and @joshuatopolsky

Greg Sandoval:

My new home — I'm saved. Two weeks ago, I resigned from CNET after seven years at the technology news site. Today, I can report that I have accepted an offer from The Verge to become a senior reporter. I start in a couple of weeks. Greg Sandoval When I say “saved,” …

Discussion: @sandonet and Talking Biz News

Jay Rosen / Pressthink:

Look, you're right, okay? But you're also wrong. — A post that arises from a certain image I have of disaffected newsroom “traditionalists,” who look upon changes in journalism since the rise of the web with fear and loathing. It is not addressed to particular people but to a climate …

Discussion: @palafo and @mattderienzo

Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:

Decades of Leadership, Making an Exit — IT is considered a given, among many in management, that every employee is replaceable. When even the most valuable staff member walks out the door, someone else takes over and does the job. Life goes on and change is good. — I'm not so sure.

Discussion: @omar_quraishi, @michaelroston and @romenesko

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Twitter Got Hacked. Expect More Companies to Follow. — The last week of tech headlines reads like some sort of cybersecurity end of days scenario. The New York Times hacked. The Wall Street Journal hacked. The Washington Post hacked. — And finally on Friday, Twitter …

Discussion: Marketing Land, Crikey and NYT Bits

Washington Post:

Chinese hackers suspected in attack on The Post's computers — A sophisticated cyberattack targeted The Washington Post in an operation that resembled intrusions against other major American news organizations and that company officials suspect was the work of Chinese hackers, people familiar with the incident said.

Discussion: New York Times, Politico, CNET, Guardian and Softpedia News

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Marketers Jump on Super Bowl Blackout With Real-Time Twitter Campaigns — CBS's broadcast of the Super Bowl was thrown into confusion and delay in the third quarter on Sunday when power in half of the Mercedes-Benz Superdome went out, prompting a surge of attempts at humor on Twitter …

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Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:

Andrew Sullivan and the new wisdom of the leaky meter — On the surface, Andrew Sullivan's bold move to sell subscriptions to a new, independent version of his blog, The Dish, seems to have paid off. In the four weeks since putting out a call for subscriptions to the site at a cost of $19.99 a year …

Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:

Andrew Sullivan's grand experiment in reader-supported online journalism is now live — Prominent political blogger Andrew Sullivan's site The Dish is now up and running at its new user-funded home. So far, the ad-free experiment appears to be a success, with Sullivan pulling in $511,000 …

Discussion: The Dish and New York Magazine

Herbert J. Gans / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Journalism for democracy — Editor's note: Herbert Gans is one of America's preeminent sociologists, and some of his most notable work has come in examining the American news industry. His seminal 1979 book Deciding What's News: A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News …

Faris Couri / BBC:

BBC Arabic and the complexities of the Arab world — It is no secret that recent Arab uprisings have placed enormous burdens on the shoulders of BBC Arabic journalists responsible for reporting news from the region. — Covering the Arab world is not always an easy task …

David Gelernter / Wired:

The End of the Web, Search, and Computer as We Know It — People ask what the next web will be like, but there won't be a next web. — The space-based web we currently have will gradually be replaced by a time-based worldstream. It's already happening, and it all began with the lifestream …