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12:55 PM ET, August 13, 2014

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Foreign correspondents are risking infection to cover the Ebola outbreak in West Africa  —  Covering contagion  —  In the lead feature on page one of Tuesday's New York Times, West African bureau chief Adam Nossiter toured what is said to be the “most devastated village” at the heart of the region's current Ebola outbreak.
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Baquet: Alissa Rubin in stable condition  —  New York Times reporter Alissa Rubin is in an intensive care unit in Istanbul and is “in good spirits, occasionally managing to laugh,” Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet tells staffers.  Adam Ferguson, the freelancer who was with Rubin …
Discussion: Politico and @davidfolkenflik
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Rod Nordland / New York Times:
Times Journalist Injured in Iraqi Kurd Helicopter Crash
Jessica Coen / Jezebel:
Gawker reintroduces pending comments system to combat Jezebel's rape gif problem  —  What Gawker Media Is Doing About Our Rape Gif Problem  —  On Monday, we posted an open letter to the management of Gawker Media, our parent company, regarding an ongoing problem that we here at Jezebel …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
StyleHaul Next Big MCN Sale?  Amazon, Fox, Hearst Approach (Exclusive)  —  RTL-backed company has been approached about potential acquisition by Amazon, 21st Century Fox, Hearst and Condé Nast, according to sources  —  StyleHaul could be the next hot multichannel network to get snapped up by a big media company.
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Former Sun journalist Ben Ashford found not guilty after reading texts on stolen iPhone  —  Ben Ashford found not guilty after trawling stolen phone for flirty texts  —  Former Sun journalist walks free after being arrested as part of investigation into criminal breaches of privacy and hacking
Alex Byers / Politico:
Comcast and Time Warner pay total of $132K to sponsor dinner honoring FCC Commissioner Clyburn  —  Comcast, Time Warner Cable help honor Mignon Clyburn amid merger review  —  Comcast and Time Warner Cable are sponsoring a dinner honoring FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn at a time when the agency …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Jeanne Cummings joins Bloomberg Politics project as head of Washington operations  —  Bloomberg Politics taps Cummings in D.C.  —  Jeanne Cummings, a deputy editor at Bloomberg News, has been tapped to serve as head of Washington operations for the Mark Halperin-John Heilemann-led Bloomberg …
J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
BuzzFeed deleted over 4K staff posts in late April, based on metrics in author profiles  —  Over 4,000 BuzzFeed Posts Have Completely Disappeared  —  You may have heard that BuzzFeed recently landed $50 million in venture capital, with which it hopes to transcend its long-time status as a …
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Adam Serwer is BuzzFeed's new national editor  —  Adam Serwer will become BuzzFeed's new national editor.  Serwer is currently a reporter at MSNBC and worked for Mother Jones before that.  —  Serwer will lead a small desk of “people whose beats kind of fall outside of the other things we have …
Dale Eisinger / The Awl:
A liberal writer's perspective on writing for a conservative news site  —  My Short Career in the Internet Outrage Business  —  The target demographic: white males, Rust Belt, fifty-plus.  We came in early; I saw the sunrise every morning.  We worked in New York City, but I don't think a single coworker lived there.
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Hairpin founder joins Matt Taibbi's magazine  —  Matt Taibbi announced two hires for his yet-unnamed magazine Tuesday: Laura Dawn, executive director of multimedia and Edith Zimmerman, who will be a senior writer.  —  Edith Zimmerman founded The Hairpin.  She has also written for Vulture …
Al Tompkins / Poynter:
Under financial pressure, CBS ditches TV affiliates who refuse to give higher cuts of revenue  —  CBS prepared to play rough with affiliates over money  —  CBS fired an opening salvo in what could become a disruption for network affiliated television stations.
Discussion: @poynter, @thebenbergman and @atompkins
 
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