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Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
Problems With Precision and Judgment, but Not Integrity, in Tesla Test — As promised, I've spent the past several days looking into the reporter John M. Broder's test drive of the celebrated electric car known as the Tesla Model S. The article, which focused on two new “superchargers” …
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SlashGear, Engadget, Rehak/Stuebing Mostly Media, @sulliview, @dirkliedtke, @moorehn, @jeffjarvis and Mercury News
David Carr / New York Times:
Logging Off to Trace a Web Photo to Its Source — When photographs of spontaneous events miraculously appear on the Web, it generally prompts two responses: wonder and skepticism. — So it was with an image of exploding manhole covers in Omaha that took over the Web last month.
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The Buttry Diary, Media Decoder and Capital New York
Brent Lang / The Wrap:
Amazon Shake-Up: Anthony Bay Out as Head of Video Division (Exclusive) — Amazon is shaking up its video services, as two top executives are leaving the e-commerce powerhouse, TheWrap has learned. — Anthony Bay, global head of the company's digital video division, will leave Amazon …
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Home Media Magazine and NetNewsCheck Latest
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Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
Amazon-owned LoveFilm's MD Jim Buckle to step down after a year in position
Amazon-owned LoveFilm's MD Jim Buckle to step down after a year in position
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Accountancy Age
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
The Need for a Digital “New Journalism” — The survival of quality news calls for a new approach to writing and reporting. Inspiration could come from blogging and magazine storytelling and also bring back memories of the 70′s New Journalism movement. — News reporting is aging badly.
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@bobbiejohnson, Kirk LaPointe's …, @rafat, @_arianna, @rajunarisetti, @konradweber, @zimbalist, @noruweijin, @kcorrick, @moorehn and @wblau
Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
Some shifts in power visible in journalism today — “To some degree they have achieved what Tim Russert of NBC News had when he was host of Meet the Press. Sitting down for an interview with Swisher and Mossberg is a thing you do to show that you are a serious player...”
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@dskok, @stephaniepride, @rajunarisetti and @scottdougal
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
BuzzFeed uniques up 47% as New York Times profiles Editor Ben Smith — Douglas Quenqua profiled BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith in The New York Times' Styles section Sunday, an infraction that cannot go unremarked. — Quenqua “labors on the misapprehensions that Smith invented blogging …
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
McGrory: Boston Globe will ‘untangle’ its two websites — The difference between BostonGlobe.com and Boston.com isn't clear to “many people in this community and people in this newsroom,” Boston Globe Editor Brian McGrory told Poynter in a phone interview Friday. “That's understandable,” he said.
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Media Nation, @nycjim, NetNewsCheck Latest and @jayrosen_nyu
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Austin Tice, David Corn win Polk Awards — McClatchy's David Enders and Austin Tice have been awarded the George Polk Award for War Reporting for their work in Syria, Long Island University announced Monday. Tice, a freelancer, has been missing in Syria since last August.
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
As BBC strikes, Brits trust journalists less than Americans do — Good news for British journalists: At least you're not politicians. Those public servants were the only group trusted less by Britons than members of the press, according to an Ipsos MORI poll published Friday.
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Richard Alleyne / Telegraph:
BBC strike hits flagship TV and radio news programmes
BBC strike hits flagship TV and radio news programmes
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pressgazette.co.uk, The Independent, BBC, Guardian, @paulmasonnews, Digital Spy and The Independent
Tim Carmody / The Verge:
Why Intel could be the company to finally crack internet TV — Everyone else has tried, now it's the chipmaker's turn — Intel? Really? There were rumors and reports for months that Intel was mounting a play for internet TV, but there was always an element of implausibility to them.
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Forbes
Michael Wolff / Guardian:
The fall of Time Inc is more about bad leadership than a dying industry — Even in the context of the general decline of the magazine business, Time Inc warrants special shame and humiliation — I remember when the 34th floor of the Time Life building was the most vaunted real estate in journalism.
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@palafo, @michaelwolffnyc, @smalera and Wall Street Journal
Shane Hickey / Guardian:
Irish publishing group ousts Australian — Brett Chenoweth's resignation as chief executive comes after the board said it had ‘lost confidence’ in his leadership ability — The chairman and chief executive of the Australian arm of Independent News and Media (INM) have been ousted …
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
Risk of a ‘Pando problem’? The Business of Fashion blog lands $2.1m from LVMH, Index Ventures and more — In these harsh economic times where B2B enterprise plays make the safest bets, newly venture-backed media companies are a rarity. That's why it's interesting to see that fashion blog …
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PandoDaily, BoF, Guardian and growthbusiness.co.uk
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