Mediagazer: In the quest for digital-age prosperity, legacy newsrooms are making pilgrimages to Silicon Valley (Alison Langley/Columbia Journalism Review)

11:25 PM ET, November 3, 2013

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Yahoo's Mayer on the Talent Hunt for Tech Journalists (Even From AllThingsD!) — This weekend, a Yahoo recruiter tried to poach two of our fine AllThingsD reporters for what was described as a “new initiative within our Tech Vertical.” — According to the recruiter, who used LinkedIn for the outreach …

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Evie Nagy / Fast Company:

Wearab.ly teams up with NPR, Atlantic and NatGeo to turn RSS feeds into Google Glass Apps — Wear Your News: This Platform Turns Any RSS Feed Into A Google Glass App — As media companies race to adapt to their readers' increased reliance on smartphones and tablets …

Claudia Buck / Sacramento Bee:

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Mark Hosenball / Reuters:

UK: Snowden reporter's partner involved in ‘espionage’ and ‘terrorism’ — (Reuters) - British authorities claimed the domestic partner of reporter Glenn Greenwald was involved in “terrorism” when he tried to carry documents from former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden through …

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Reuters:

Two French journalists abducted, killed in northern Mali — (Reuters) - Two French radio journalists were killed by gunmen in northern Mali on Saturday shortly after being abducted in the town of Kidal, French and Malian officials said. — The French government confirmed that 58-year old Claude Verlon …

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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

What does sustainability look like in nonprofit journalism? — What, exactly, does a healthy nonprofit news site look like? — If you're a national site like ProPublica, is the metric winning major awards and changing policy through your reporting? If you're a state-focused site …

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Alison Langley / Columbia Journalism Review:

In the quest for digital-age prosperity, legacy newsrooms are making pilgrimages to Silicon Valley — In the quest for digital-age prosperity, legacy newsrooms are making pilgrimages to Silicon Valley — In March 2012, the nation's public broadcasters gathered in Austin, TX …

Tim Peterson / AdAge:

YouTube to charge TV networks the same 45% of ad revenues it charges other content producers, ending favorable terms — YouTube to TV Networks: No More ‘Sweetheart’ Ad Deals for You! — Video Service Imposing 45% Ad Splits On All Partners, But Also Offering New Upside

Discussion: @petersontee, Variety, VideoInk, Business Insider and Tubefilter

John Paul Titlow / Co.Labs:

The future of storytelling is a combination of text, moving images and interactive elements—all powered by a JavaScript library called D3. — For newsrooms, creating interactive stories can be painful—but readers are coming to expect them more and more. As easily as they can wow readers …

Discussion: Teaching Online Journalism and @ricmac

Concurring Opinions:

On the NSA and Media Bias: An Extended Analysis — By Albert Wong and Valerie Belair-Gagnon, Information Society Project at Yale Law School — In a recent article in the Columbia Journalism Review, we reported that major US newspapers exhibited a net pro-surveillance bias in their “post-Edward Snowden” coverage of the NSA.

Discussion: @janinegibson

Louise Watt / Associated Press:

Chinese journalist tries to crowdfund his career — BEIJING (AP) — From his temporary home on a friend's sofa, Yin Yusheng hopes to craft a new kind of journalism in China, where the industry is widely seen as state-controlled and corrupt. He wants to make his readers the boss — and that includes paying his salary.

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Broken news: struggling to find facts in the Twitter maelstrom — LAX shooting shows that the rules of retraction on Twitter are still unwritten — especially for old media — As with Hurricane Sandy, the Boston Marathon bombings, and countless other major stories, news of today's shooting …