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Joe Hagan / New York Magazine:
Can ‘60 Minutes’ Afford to Take Lara Logan Back? — Is Lara Logan too toxic to return to 60 Minutes? — Eleven years ago, the 60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan was sitting in the InterContinental hotel in Amman, Jordan, watching her career flash before her eyes.
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Lara Logan's Future At CBS Uncertain Since Discredited Benghazi Report — NEW YORK — On Oct. 28, Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) announced that he planned to block all of President Barack Obama's appointees until every survivor of the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi attack testified before Congress …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CBS News Mum on Logan's Status At ‘60 Minutes’ Following Report
CBS News Mum on Logan's Status At ‘60 Minutes’ Following Report
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Craig Silverman / Poynter:
Time public editor Margaret Sullivan says journalists need to be like sharks … New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan says journalists today are like sharks. “If you're not moving forward, it's over.” — Sullivan gave a keynote address at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia …
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David Segal / New York Times:
Problem for advertisers: more than half of online video ads go unwatched below the fold, in tiny players, or played simultaneously with other ads — The Great Unwatched — Some of the biggest names in Internet media have been gathering in New York City at the third annual Digital Content NewFronts …
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Alexander Howard / Tow Center for Digital Journalism:
Interview with Tasneem Raja, interactive editor at Mother Jones, on data journalism — Tasneem Raja urges newsrooms to adopt pair programming for better data journalism — New, digitally native media enterprises like Five Thirty Eight have gotten a lot of attention — and some grief — as they've gone online this year.
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
LA Times to relaunch site on Tuesday, with mobile readership in mind — How the L.A. Times is redesigning for the mobile Web — Newspapers lag far behind in the share of time spent on mobile devices. That's a reality the Los Angeles Times is hoping to counter when it relaunches …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
“Game Change” co-authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann join Bloomberg to spearhead a new, stand-alone politics site — Bloomberg snags Halperin and Heilemann — “Game Change” co-authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann have joined Bloomberg News where they will spearhead a new …
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Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:
Slate doubling down on podcasts, launching two in the next week — Slate Raising Its Investment in Podcasts — The digital magazine Slate will start two new podcasts on Monday: The Gist, with the former NPR reporter Mike Pesca, its first daily podcast intended to deliver news and opinion …
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David Carr / New York Times:
A Key Player in a Scandal, V. Stiviano Feeds the Media's Appetite — Words are sometimes no match for pictures. So when I suggest that V. Stiviano may understand and avail herself of the current American media culture better than anyone, it is worth taking a look at our subject, below.
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Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
No Regrets for the Founder of Tumblr After Yahoo Sale — When Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion a year ago, it sent a ripple of excitement — and anxiety — through the tech industry. Would Yahoo and its recently arrived chief executive, Marissa Mayer, breathe new life into Tumblr?
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Will Oremus / Slate:
Twitter isn't dying: active users and timeline views don't capture the platform's vast reach — Twitter Is Not Dying — Well, that's it folks: Twitter is dead. It had a good flight. A short flight, but a noisy one. Sadly, it is now headed the way of Flappy Bird.
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