Mediagazer: Big Media Comes to SXSW for Buzz — And to Bring SXSW Everywhere Else (Peter Kafka/Re/code)

1:50 AM ET, March 9, 2014

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Newsweek EIC tells Pando “We've hired security to protect our reporter.” Social media head: “We won!” — “I find that phenomenally offensive.” — Newsweek's Editor-in-chief Jim Impoco is not happy that we're questioning his magazine's huge Bitcoin scoop. “This was textbook reporting,” Impoco insists.

Discussion: The Future of Pando, @runasand, @cjoh, @caleweissman, @penenberg, bookforum.com and The Verge

Kashmir Hill / Forbes:

Deputies confirm key quote from Dorian Nakamoto about Bitcoin in Newsweek story — More Details On Newsweek Journalist's Interview With Alleged Bitcoin Creator — In a long article that points to a 64-year-old California man Dorian Nakamoto as Bitcoin's creator, the most compelling evidence …

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Seth Fiegerman / Mashable:
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Sarah Silbert / Engadget:

NYT Now is a mobile news platform with a dedicated staff curating stories — SXSW is a veritable playground for journalists, with panels catering to media professionals and — most importantly — no shortage of free food. We're not surprised, then, that The New York Times chose Austin as the venue for an announcement this week.

Discussion: @mathewi, @lindazebian and Mashable

Max Seddon / BuzzFeed:

Forbes Distances Itself From Ukrainian Magazine As Oligarch Owner Wanted For Corruption — Family scion Miguel Forbes, who approved the Ukrainian magazine's controversial sale to an oligarch wanted for stealing $1 billion and facing EU sanctions, has left the company.

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:

FiveThirtyEight to Relaunch on March 17 — We have some news! We're planning to relaunch FiveThirtyEight on March 17, a week from Monday. — As with all plans, this one could go awry. We're still completing final testing on the new website, and tweaking the final elements of the site's design.

Discussion: @fivethirtyeight, The Wrap, FiveThirtyEight and Poynter

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Big Media Comes to SXSW for Buzz — And to Bring SXSW Everywhere Else — South by Southwest started out as a place for unknown bands to make a name for themselves, before it got too big for anyone to stand out. Then the same thing happened to Web companies: Good luck trying to get your startup …

Discussion: Re/code

Russell Brandom / The Verge:

Julian Assange at SXSW: ‘national security reporters are a new kind of refugee’ — Speaking via Skype before an audience of thousands at South by Southwest, Julian Assange made the case for a new golden age of national security reporting, conducted largely by Americans in exile.

Discussion: Adweek, Guardian, Gawker, VentureBeat, Poynter, CNET, @gissounia, TechCrunch, @stevekovach, Hollywood Reporter, The Next Web and Engadget

Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:

Next week Medium is launching an iPhone app for reading but not writing posts — With Medium, Evan Williams Is Tackling the Future of Writing Online — As a founder of both Blogger and Twitter, Evan Williams helped change the way people write online. Now, with his latest start-up …

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Google Ventures Boots ‘Bustle’ — Bustle, the unfortunately named and ill-marketed woman's publication launched by Bleacher Report founder Bryan Goldberg in August, has lost at least one prominent investor. Google Ventures has pulled its initial investment of $100K out of the company's latest round …

Discussion: The Wire, @espiers, @sarahjeong, @atleeclark, @michaelwhitney, @sheigh and @nostrich

Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:
Sources: Bryan Goldberg of Bustle bought out Google Ventures' $100k investment

Discussion: @paulcarr, @jason_kint, @peteryared, @sarahcuda, @elongreen, @shaig and @jessicakroy

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Aereo's internet TV service in Denver and Salt Lake City shuts down today — Aereo's streams in Denver and Salt Lake City hung on for a while after the US District Court of Utah granted its opponents a preliminary injunction on February 20th, but today they're shutting off.

Discussion: Deadline.com, Salt Lake Tribune, Hollywood Reporter, Variety and Broadcasting & Cable

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David Carr: Anyone trying to predict the future of journalism “is going to get clobbered” — David Carr: Journalism Is Still Serious, Just Different — In September, New York Times media columnist David Carr will convene his first class at the College of Communication …

Jeremy Popkin / Splitsider:

Talking to 'The Onion's New Editor-in-Chief, Cole Bolton — It's a story as old as time itself: man dislikes his job, decides to pursue a career in comedy, sends a bunch of unsolicited work into The Onion, and eventually becomes editor of the world's most popular satirical news site.

Discussion: @peteschroeder and @michaelroston

Casey Newton / The Verge:

After Zite sale, it's time to take a more skeptical look at news personalization by algorithm — The smarter news apps are, the dumber they get — A curiously hot category with little to show for it — In August 2011, CNN bought the newsreading app Zite for $20 million.

Discussion: @mathewi