Mediagazer: A Year of Poor Decisions Show Why It's Time for a Change of Leadership at MSNBC (Joe Concha/Mediaite)

10:00 AM ET, November 18, 2013

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Jay Rosen joins Pierre Omidyar's news venture — Out of the press box and onto the field — I have a personal announcement. — I am joining up with the new venture in news that Pierre Omidyar, Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill are creating, along with Liliana Segura …

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Emily Bell / Guardian:

Journalists are on the move in America - and creating a new vitality — Big-name reporters are moving for very significant amounts of money to a wide variety of new and surprising places — It caused a stir when the lauded statistician Nate Silver recently announced he was leaving …

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Katherine Rushton / Telegraph:

Murdoch sale led to ruin of MySpace, says its co-founder — News Corp squandered $15bn of investors' cash, says MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe — Chris DeWolfe, the former chief executive of MySpace, has accused Rupert Murdoch of ruining the social network - and discussed false allegations …

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Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:

Andrew Sullivan expands The Daily Dish with monthly subscription-only magazine called Deep Dish — Blogger-entrepreneur Andrew Sullivan — who left The Daily Beast earlier this year to launch his own reader-supported site and has since raised over $800,000 from his supporters …

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Adrian Chen / Gawker:

After 30 Years of Silence, the Original NSA Whistleblower Looks Back — The four-story brownstone at 141 East 37th Street in Manhattan has no remarkable features: a plain building on a quiet tree-lined street in the shadow of the Empire State Building. In the summer of 1920, Herbert O. Yardley …

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Ted Johnson / Variety:

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Joe Concha / Mediaite:

A Year of Poor Decisions Show Why It's Time for a Change of Leadership at MSNBC — Before we begin, a disclaimer: — This column is not about MSNBC's narrative...not about its ideology or advocacy. The decision by MSNBC a few years ago to go left, to be the anti-Fox, should be applauded …

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Alexis Sobel Fitts / Columbia Journalism Review:

Openly accessible — The backlash over a Science magazine sting raises questions about the scope of investigative journalism and the rigor of open access publishing — Last month John Bohannon, a biologist and science writer, published the kind of piece in Science magazine that defies classification.

Associated Press:

Gunman opens fire at French newspaper office, seriously wounding employee before fleeing — PARIS — A gunman opened fire in the lobby of a French newspaper office in Paris on Monday, gravely wounding a photographer's assistant before fleeing. — The daily newspaper Liberation said the 27-year-old victim was in serious condition.

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John Reynolds / Guardian:

Adult video-on-demand website closed for failing to protect children — Ofcom takes action against Jessica Pressley site for providing free hardcore pornography without a robust paywall — The media regulator has shut a website offering free hardcore pornography, marking …