Mediagazer: Who Killed Michael Hastings? (Benjamin Wallace/New York Magazine)

1:15 PM ET, November 11, 2013

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Jessi Hempel / Fortune:

Vox Media acquires Curbed Network for $20-30M — Vox Media has taken on sports, technology and video games. Now it's getting into real estate. — FORTUNE — Fortune has learned that ambitious digital media startup Vox Media will acquire Curbed Network, a saucy trio of urban lifestyle …

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Felix Salmon:

Content economics, part 4: scale — The big blog news of the day is that Vox Media has acquired Curbed Network. Why is the news so big? Because, until now, if a major blog property was sold, it was always sold to some media giant — more often than not, AOL — which wanted …

New York Times:

‘60 Minutes’ Airs Apology on Benghazi — Lara Logan was scheduled to deliver a report on Sunday's “60 Minutes” about disabled veterans who climb mountains. Instead, she appeared in front of the newsmagazine's trademark black backdrop and issued an apology.

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

‘60 Minutes’ Benghazi Apology Leaves Key Questions Unanswered — NEW YORK — “60 Minutes” correspondent Lara Logan apologized Sunday night for her discredited Oct. 27 report featuring an “eyewitness” account of the Benghazi terrorist attack that proved to be false. — But “60 Minutes” doesn't need to apologize anymore.

Discussion: Guardian, Columbia Journalism Review, Politico, Gawker, @azmatzahra, The Wrap, Pressing Issues, The Raw Story and NPR

David Carr / New York Times:

Marrying Companies and Content — On Thursday, Contently, a hot little company, held a buzzy conference at the Bowery Hotel on a very of-the-moment topic. — The conference, the Brand Publishing Summit, included clients, agencies and publishers, with a lot of chatter about brands going direct …

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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

Home Sec suggests BBC must be curbed to protect local newspapers — Home Secretary Theresa May suggested today that the BBC may need to curb its activities at a local level to protect local newspapers. — She said: “If the BBC can provide all the locally-significant news, what reason is left for local people to buy a newspaper?

Discussion: Guardian, @pressgazette, @fleetstreetfox and @nickcohen4

Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:

Lessons in a Surveillance Drama Redux — IT was almost eight years ago that The Times published a blockbuster story by James Risen and Eric Lichtblau about a secret Bush administration program to eavesdrop on Americans without warrants. But for many Times readers, it still resonates deeply.

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Daniel D'Addario / Salon:

The Thought Catalog revolution: How trolling took over the Internet — There's only hate-reading and trolling online. Can anyone find a new model? — They know they're making you mad. The website Thought Catalog sits at the intersection of the hauteur of the young and the privilege of the wealthy …

Marek Miller / Journalism.co.uk:

Finnish daily piloting solar-charged e-reader giveaway — Helsingin Sanomat is giving 300 subscribers devices worth €40 that can be charged by artificial or natural light — Credit: Image courtesy of Leia Media Ltd — Finnish daily Helsingin Sanomat is testing pushing their content …

John Plunkett / Guardian:

NSA leaks: Theresa May says editors ‘should recognise their responsibilities’ — Home secretary follows cabinet colleagues in criticising newspapers over stories based on Edward Snowden revelations — Theresa May has become the latest Tory cabinet minister to criticise the publication …

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Guardian:
Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger to be questioned by MPs over NSA leaks

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Benjamin Wallace / New York Magazine:

Who Killed Michael Hastings? — Reflexively distrustful, eager to make powerful enemies, the young journalist whose Mercedes exploded in Los Angeles one night couldn't possibly have died accidentally, could he? — At the end of his life, Michael Hastings, like many of the progressive journalists …

Discussion: LA Observed, @nickbaumann, @buzzfeedben, @clarajeffery, @mlcalderone, @rachelsklar, @joshuafoust, @clarajeffery and @sarahw

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Flipboard Debuts Catalogs, Shoppable Magazines Built By Brand Advertisers, Celeb Curators & Users, Too — Flipboard is inching into Pinterest's territory today with the launch of a new “shopping” category which allows e-commerce brands turn their online stores into flippable, shoppable catalogs …

Discussion: Fast Company, Gigaom, Folio, AllThingsD, Forbes, VentureBeat, Fashionista, CNET and The Next Web

Brendan Nyhan / Columbia Journalism Review:

TruePolitics, factchecking site for New York City politics, to launch early 2014 — Factchecking goes local in New York — The founding editor of TruePolitics talks about the soon-to-launch site — With the trio of PolitiFact, Factcheck.org, and The Washington Post's Fact Checker blog …