Mediagazer: You can't judge Business Insider's value by its investors (Dan Primack/Fortune)

3:11 AM ET, March 18, 2014

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FiveThirtyEight launches to make data journalism accessible without sacrificing rigor — What the Fox Knows — FiveThirtyEight is a data journalism organization. Let me explain what we mean by that, and why we think the intersection of data and journalism is so important.

Ben Thompson / stratechery:

Average journalism gets crowded out as the internet eases delivery of the best journalism — e FiveThirtyEight and the End of Average — Just a few minutes ago, Nate Silver's new FiveThirtyEight site launched. While it's not known how much ESPN is paying Silver, it's certainly a substantial amount …

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Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

Business Insider's Henry Blodget pushes back against Michael Wolff's gloomy outlook for ad-supported digital media — USA Today Is Worried About Us And The Digital Media Industry! — USA Today columnist Michael Wolff has written a column expressing his view of the prospects for our business and that of other digital news companies.

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Dan Primack / Fortune:

You can't judge Business Insider's value by its investors — Media columnist goofs on Business Insider funding math. — FORTUNE — Earlier today, USA Today media scribe Michael Wolff wrote a pretty bearish column about the future of business news website Business Insider — suggesting it may be a …

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Connie Cass / Associated Press:

Study: three quarters of Americans get news at least daily, using multiple devices and sources — ON THE MEDIA BUFFET, PEOPLE STILL SEEK MEATY NEWS — WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans of all ages still pay heed to serious news even as they seek out the lighter stuff, choosing their own …

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Guardian:

Guardian editor receives European Press award for Edward Snowden story — Alan Rusbridger given award for NSA revelations that ‘set alarm bells ringing throughout the world’ — Alan Rusbridger, the editor in chief of the Guardian, has been honoured at the European Press awards for leading …

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Kelly McBride / Poynter:

Lessons learned from a Twitter storm — Poynter is a school. We teach journalists new and better ways of informing the public. And so it makes sense that I would share what I've learned from the recent Twitter uproar over a column I wrote last week. — First the background …

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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Comcast and Time Warner Cable lost 1.1 million video customers in 2013 — Pay-TV isn't going away, though, as AT&T and Verizon boost subscriber numbers. — Comcast, Time Warner Cable (TWC), and all other top cable companies lost pay-TV subscribers in 2013, but the companies were able …

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Cheneya / Variety:

Sony Lays Off 70 in Interactive Division, More Cuts Expected — Sony Pictures Entertainment has laid off the entirety of its Interactive team which numbers more than 70 people. The team, which serves as a digital marketing agency and production studio for the studio's product …

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Wall Street Journal:

YouTube Enlists ‘Trusted Flaggers’ to Police Videos — Google has given roughly 200 people and organizations, including a British police unit, the ability to “flag” up to 20 YouTube videos at once to be reviewed for violating the site's guidelines. — The Financial Times last week reported …

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Paper Does Its First Content Collaboration With Exclusives From TED — In hopes of luring in fresh audiences, Facebook Paper announced its first experiment in working with an outside group to populate the Ideas section of its stylized content reader standalone app.

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Abigail Edge / Journalism.co.uk:

Study: Facebook news referrals are ‘gaining’ on Google — Traffic referrals to news sites from social media sites have overtaken referrals from search, according to a recent report by Parse.ly — Credit: Image by owenwbrown on Flickr. Some rights reserved

Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Know which way the wind blows: Journalists need to think more critically about weather maps — Everybody's talking about the weather. — Weather.com is exploding with content, from longform to short docs to clickbait. Gawker just started a weather blog called The Vane.

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Amazon's Set Top Box Will Be A Dongle Like Chromecast, Could Feature OnLive-Style Streaming — Amazon is readying a game console/set top box of its own, and we've learned from multiple sources familiar with the device that the Lab126-produced gadget will have a form factor similar to the Chromecast …

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John Eligon / New York Times:

Undercover TV Reports on School Security Raise Ethical Questions — The three news reports followed the same format: Television reporters walked into schools with hidden cameras, under the premise of testing the security measures. Each time, the anchors provided a sobering assessment of the findings.

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Quartz to launch an India channel — Quartz, the mobile-first digital publication aimed at global business and finance elites, is the latest American news brand making a foray into India. — Capital has learned that Quartz is preparing an India channel to launch this spring or summer …

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