Mediagazer: Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight Blog Is to Join ESPN Staff (Brian Stelter/New York Times)

4:15 PM ET, July 20, 2013

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight Blog Is to Join ESPN Staff — Nate Silver, the statistician who attained national fame for his accurate projections about the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, is parting ways with The New York Times and moving his FiveThirtyEight franchise to ESPN …

Discussion: Business Insider, PandoDaily, @carr2n, TechCrunch, Fast Company, paidContent, Deadline.com, @stevestreza, Politico, Mediaite, @pkafka, The Verge, @dangillmor, The Wrap, New York Magazine, LA Observed, Variety and The Huffington Post, Thanks:@steverubel

Calvin Woodward / Associated Press:

Pioneering journalist Helen Thomas dies at 92 — WASHINGTON (AP) — Helen Thomas, the irrepressible White House correspondent who used her seat in the front row of history to grill nine presidents — often to their discomfort and was not shy about sharing her opinions, died Saturday. She was 92.

Discussion: New York Times, CNN, Politico, NPR, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Mediaite, Yahoo! News, Deadline.com, Big News Network.com, Gawker, Guardian, TVNewser, The Independent, Bloomberg, The Huffington Post, PolicyMic, @ohnorosco, @digiphile, @cjbsc and @jmfbrooks

Jacob Harris / Source:

The Perils of Polling Twitter — Jake Harris on just a few of the myriad reasons why using tweets as data is less-than-ideal — In this case study — But what does Twitter think? If you are a data journalist in a newsroom, you will hear this question sooner or later in your career.

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …

Glenn Peoples / Billboard:

Exclusive: Windowing Hurts Sales, Increases Piracy, Says Paper Released by Spotify — Windowing is doing more harm than good, suggests a new paper by Will Page, director of economics at Spotify and former chief economist at PRS for Music. — In “Adventures in the Netherlands: Spotify …

Sarah Hill / Mediashift:

How Google Glass Will Change the Future of Broadcast Journalism — Want to stay current on media and technology from around the web? Get MediaShift's Daily Must Reads in your in-box! — News gathering is a difficult job and if you're a working journalist, you already understand …

Discussion: GigaOM, Thanks:@mediatwit

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

Starting a Conversation at The Times About Women as News Sources — The illustration from a children's book, published in 1969, says it all about the role of women in newsrooms at that time. — “... The Story of Newspapers - before women were invented,” quipped the journalist Graham Carter on Twitter …

Yochai Benkler / Guardian:

Bradley Manning ‘aiding the enemy’ charge is a threat to journalism | Yochai Benkler — Without an informed and free press, there cannot be an enlightened people. That's what this trial is really about — Thursday, Colonel Denise Lind, the judge in the Bradley Manning court martial …

Chris Chafin / The Awl:

War Reporting For Bloody Dummies — Recently I saw the journalist Clare Morgana Gillis, and asked her about her war reporting. “If you want to know a bunch of stuff about my background and whatever you can Google it,” she said. She is tall and intimidating, was wearing wraparound sunglasses at the time …

David Carr / New York Times:

Behind Rolling Stone's Cover, a Story Worth Reading — Of all the outraged responses to the Rolling Stone cover of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old suspect in the Boston marathon bombings, those from Boston were particularly acute. Mayor Thomas Menino wrote a letter of protest to Rolling Stone …

Discussion: New Yorker, Guardian and HyperVocal

Todd Spangler / Variety:

YouTube Pay Channels Aren't Taking Off Yet, Some Partners Say — Two months after site's launch of subscription services, several content providers haven't seen much activity — YouTube, which has built an Internet video empire based on free, ad-supported content, has not signed …

Discussion: Guardian and WebProNews

John Lloyd / Financial Times:

The future of the British tabloid — Two years after the News of the World closure, the ‘red tops’ are in militant mood, fighting regulation and determined to seize back the initiative from the internet — Sue Douglas is one of the few female big beasts in the popular newspaper jungle.

Angela Washeck / 10,000 Words:

With the Death of AJR in Print, What's in Store for Media Commentary? — Wednesday the American Journalism Review broke the news that it's going to quit publishing its print magazine. — Starting this fall (the date isn't specified), all AJR content will only be available online …