Mediagazer: The Fight To Keep YouTube Online in Egypt (Tessa Stuart/BuzzFeed)

7:20 AM ET, February 18, 2013

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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

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Patrick B. Pexton / Washington Post:

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Felix Salmon:

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Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:

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John R. Bohrer / Capital New York:

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Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:

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Ben Jacobs / Daily Download:

What The New York Times Utterly Misses About BuzzFeed — The New York Times' profile of Ben Smith, the Editor in Chief of Buzzfeed, depicts him as a brand new phenomenon in journalism. — It's not the article's only error— the author, Douglas Quenqua, labors on the misapprehensions …

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Discussion: Daily Download, @justinnxt, @max_read and @buzzfeedandrew

Tessa Stuart / BuzzFeed:

The Fight To Keep YouTube Online in Egypt — Egypt's Ministry of Communication and Information Technology says it's impossible to enforce a judge's decree blocking the website. — A protester near Tahrir Square in Cairo, September 13, 2012. Image by Mohamed Abd El Ghany / Reuters

Discussion: Association for Freedom …, ABCNEWS, Reuters, Egyptian Initiative …, The Inquisitr and The Verge

Erik Hayden / Hollywood Reporter:

Editor Behind Romney ‘47 Percent’ Video Honored With Polk Journalism Award — Mother Jones' David Corn was among the George Polk Award honorees. CBS News' Holly Williams, Frontline's Martin Smith and the New York Times' David Barstow are also award recipients.

Discussion: Mother Jones, @davidcorndc, @davidcorndc, @daudig and Long Island University

Bianca Bosker / The Huffington Post:

Tesla, The New York Times And The Truth About ‘Truth’ In Data — The fierce dispute between The New York Times and the CEO of Tesla Motors over the merits of its electric car is remarkable for what it says about how we argue in a time of seemingly limitless information.

Discussion: Techdirt and The Raw Story

Richard Alleyne / Telegraph:

BBC strike hits flagship TV and radio news programmes — A strike by BBC journalists over jobs disrupted programmes including the flagship Today on Radio 4. — John Humphrys and James Naughtie presenting the Today rogramme on Radio 4 THE BBC RADIO 4 ‘TODAY PROGRAMME’