Mediagazer: StateImpact makes its mark, but won't expand (Anna Clark/Columbia Journalism Review)

5:10 PM ET, May 12, 2013

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Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:

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Bill Carter / New York Times:

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Ryan Tate / Wired:

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Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

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David Weigel / Slate:

Follow Friday: The Clickbait Destroyer — Last summer, on a slow news day, a social media contractor named Alex Mizrahi got irritated with the Internet. The Huffington Post's main Twitter account—Mizrahi was one of more than two million followers—blasted out a headline asking “Who's the richest celebrity?”

Anna Clark / Columbia Journalism Review:

StateImpact makes its mark, but won't expand — As NPR exits the ambitious project, director says, “we changed the way reporting is done” — Two years ago, with statehouse bureaus taking huge cuts in a contracting media landscape, National Public Radio designed the StateImpact project …

Rick Gladstone / New York Times:

Pakistan Orders New York Times Reporter Declan Walsh to Leave — Pakistan's Interior Ministry has ordered the expulsion of The New York Times bureau chief in Islamabad on the eve of national elections, the newspaper said Friday. The Times has strongly protested the move and is seeking his reinstatement.