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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.

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 …

Discussion: Gawker and @mlcalderone

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 …

Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu, @dabeard, @poynter, @mlcalderone, The Buttry Diary, New York Times and International Journalism …

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 …

Discussion: SocialTimes, @karenmcgrane, Wall Street Journal, @ravisomaiya, @zimbalist, @patrickruffini, @rafat, @aaronwall, @carr2n, @emilybell, mUmBRELLA, Beyond Search, @markham and Beet.TV

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.

Discussion: @jeremybowers, @tasneemraja, @digiphile, @jsb and @macloo

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 …

Discussion: New York Times, Bloomberg, @binarybits, @bloombergway and @mlcalderone

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.

Discussion: bookforum.com, @st_ffen, @amanfirdaus and WGBH News

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 …

Discussion: @kgeee, @davidplotz, @fmanjoo, @slategist and @pescami

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.

Discussion: @frankbruni, @jswatz, @michaelroston, @carr2n and @jonathanmahler

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 …

Discussion: @jbenton, @palewire, @digiday and @pottsmark

Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:

As Netflix Resists, Most Firms Just Try to Befriend Comcast — In the middle of an otherwise routine earnings report last week, Netflix took an unexpected detour into the realm of antitrust enforcement: It opposed Comcast's proposed purchase of Time Warner Cable, it said …

Discussion: @dangillmor