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5:00 PM ET, March 24, 2013

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Washington Post Defends Killing Critical Iraq Media Article  —  NEW YORK — Greg Mitchell, author of a recently updated book on media mistakes during the run-up to the Iraq War, So Wrong For So Long, revealed Saturday night on his blog that the Washington Post's Outlook section had killed …
Discussion: @gregmitch
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Greg Mitchell / Pressing Issues:
Double Failure  —  Wash Post killed my assigned piece this weekend which was mainly on media failures re: Iraq—and ran this misleading (cherry-picking) piece claiming media did NOT fail.  So let's revisit my recent posts here on when probe in Wash Post itself showed that it failed big time.
Greg Mitchell / Pressing Issues:
That Piece Killed by the ‘Post’  —  Due to “popular demand,” based on my post last night, I'm publishing below the assigned Outlook piece that I submitted to the Washington Post on Thursday.  I see that the Post is now defending killing the piece because it didn't offer sufficient “broader analytical points or insights.”
Discussion: Chickaboomer and The Nation
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
The Times's Work in Progress  —  SINCE I started as The Times's fifth public editor last September, I've taken up topics from “false balance” in news articles to negative arts criticism to government secrecy.  After six months, 16 Sunday columns and close to 100 blog posts to the Public Editor's Journal …
Discussion: @blqueen
Richard Nash / Virginia Quarterly Review:
What Is the Business of Literature?  —  As technology disrupts the business model of traditional publishers, the industry must imagine new ways of capturing the value of a book.  I. One of the remarkable deficits in contemporary accounts of both book publishing and Internet business is sociohistorical awareness.
Tim Adams / Guardian:
Shane Smith: 'I want to build the next CNN with Vice - it's within my grasp'  —  Twenty years ago Shane Smith set up a hip little Montreal magazine called Vice.  Then along came the internet and Vice reinvented itself as the edgiest, wildest online media brand in the world.
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Report shows pay TV not keeping pace with broader economy  —  Pay TV lags recovery in the economy  —  The cable-TV business is not keeping pace with the broader economic recovery, a newly released report shows.  —  While the housing market added half a million new units in the fourth quarter …
Bill Mickey / Folio:
Atavist Co-Founder Evan Ratliff On Digital Content Models  —  From long-form to subscriptions, there's something for everyone.  —  One of the more dramatic turnarounds when considering online and digital content is long-form journalism.  Once considered anathema to online publishing …
Maria Balinska / Nieman Reports:
No Such Thing as “Foreign” Anymore  —  My journalism manifesto comes down to three words: local global mashup.  —  Here's the back story.  I've spent my entire career—18 years of it at the BBC—in international journalism, reporting and editing stories “abroad” for audiences “back home.”
Ed Bott / ZDNet:
Embrace, extend, extinguish: How Google crushed and abandoned the RSS industry  —  Summary: Most of the commentary I've read so far about the loss of Google Reader has been about its use as an RSS client.  But that's a red herring.  The real victims were companies that had planned in 2005 and 2006 to build RSS sync engines.
Guardian:
Blogs likely to be excluded from press reforms by House of Lords  —  Prominent web writers warn punitive measures would force many of them to close down, thereby stifling transparency  —  Fears that bloggers and small-scale news websites will be dragged into the new proposed system of press regulation …
Ritchie King / Quartz:
Skinny and white: the fashionable new look for news sites  —  Call it fashion week for the news industry.  This month, three major American journalism shops have said they will be redesigning their websites: Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times.
 
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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline.com:
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Bloomberg Businessweek expands non-postal delivery
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
The New Republic Fires Timothy Noah
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Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:
Posthaven Launches In Public Beta, Has Saved 850K Posts Since Posterous Announced Its Shutdown Date Of April 30th
Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Changing trains: The Local East Village, NYU's hyperlocal blog, moves from The New York Times to New York magazine
Discussion: FishbowlNY and New York Times