Mediagazer: Media career path: Cry ‘media bias’ (Dylan Byers/Politico)

5:10 PM ET, March 30, 2014

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Alexander Howard / Tow Center for Digital Journalism:

Aron Pilhofer on data journalism, culture and going digital — When it comes to computer-assisted reporting and the ways media companies are using technology, there are few people in the U.S.A. as knowledgeable as Aron Pilhofer. He runs a newsroom team at The New York Times that combines journalism …

Discussion: @elanazak, @jayrosen_nyu and @digiphile

Marcella Bombardieri / The Boston Globe:

Court documents reveal ambivalence in how MIT assisted Aaron Swartz's prosecution — The inside story of MIT and Aaron Swartz — More than a year after Swartz killed himself rather than face prosecution, questions about MIT's handling of the hacking case persist

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Robert Kolker / New York Magazine:

How NBCUniversal Killed DailyCandy — Dany Levy, the founder of DailyCandy, the addictive and once wildly successful shopping e-newsletter and website, was boarding a plane to Mexico when she heard her creation was being shut down by its current owner, NBCUniversal, along with Television Without Pity …

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Sam Kirkland / Poynter:

How AOL maintains editorial independence in Ford-sponsored ‘This Built America’ series — When an AOL team with an editorial vision joined a video production team with an artistic vision to launch an ambitious 50-week series about people and companies rebuilding America, it was clear they needed a brand to help fund it.

Trevor Timm / Freedom of the Press Foundation:

Lessons for Journalists and Sources from the Microsoft/Blogger Privacy Fiasco — Privacy-conscious Internet users were aghast last week when court documents showed that Microsoft looked at the content of a blogger's Hotmail account without a warrant—or any legal process whatsoever …

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

Media career path: Cry ‘media bias’ — Sharyl Attkisson hasn't landed yet, but there's every reason to suppose she's not going to finish her career in local news in Duluth. — For starters, Atkinson is an accomplished reporter. But she's also taken one of the surefire moves to help ensure …

Martin Chulov / Guardian:

Spanish journalists freed in Syria after six-month ordeal — Javier Espinosa and Ricardo Villanova Garcia released but Islamist extremists still hold over 40 other western hostages — Two Spanish journalists kidnapped in northern Syria last September were freed by their captors on Saturday night …

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Emerging Technology From the arXiv:

The Evolution of Automated Breaking News Stories — A Google engineer has developed an algorithm that spots breaking news stories on the Web and illustrates them with pictures. And it is now filing its first stories on Twitter. — Breaking news stories are one of the driving forces for online media.

Discussion: @mathewi

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

FiveThirtyEight Apologizes On Behalf Of Controversial Climate Science Writer — NEW YORK — Two prominent climate scientists say Roger Pielke Jr., a controversial writer at Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight site, sent emails threatening possible legal action in response to their criticism of his findings for the data-driven news site.

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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEightDataLab:
FiveThirtyEight admits issues with climate-science article, will commission rebuttal

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Vijaya Gadde / The Twitter Blog:

Twitter wins Turkish court case overturning take-down order of account, but service still blocked — Victory for free expression in Turkish court — Two days ago, we filed petitions in Turkish court to challenge the access ban on Twitter, joining Turkish journalists and legal experts …

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Today's Zaman:
Turkish journalist detained over leak of key Syria meeting

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Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
Turkey's YouTube traffic down 2/3 after blockage by government

Discussion: @zeynep, Washington Post, SocialTimes and Bloomberg View

Stephen Franklin / The Big Roundtable:

Veteran journalist recalls Beirut in 1982 and reflects how the Internet is changing Arab world — The Light in Beirut — Up against a wall, waiting to die on a late afternoon in August 1982, a journalist's life stops and then starts over. — Bright, bright light. So bright it blinds me.

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Hilmar Schmundt / Spiegel Online:

How Copyright Laws Keep E-Books Locked Up — Many publishing houses don't allow their products to be lent out by digital libraries for fear of piracy. Articles and books by researchers are also affected. Readers are the ones who have to pay the price. — When the German author Johann …

Robert Andrews / Beet.TV:

Huffington Post CEO Maymann: “HuffPost Live” Nears Break Even, Eyeing Global Expansion — LONDON — Nearly two years after launching, HuffPost Live, Huffington Post's effort to reinvent rolling TV news, is on the verge of breaking even, says HuffPost's CEO.