Mediagazer: Ben Bradlee Could Teach Us All a Thing or Two About Real Disruption (Kara Swisher/Re/code)

11:20 AM ET, October 27, 2014

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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:

How Facebook Is Changing the Way Its Users Consume Journalism — MENLO PARK, Calif. — Many of the people who read this article will do so because Greg Marra, 26, a Facebook engineer, calculated that it was the kind of thing they might enjoy. — Mr. Marra's team designs the code …

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Michael Bolen / The Huffington Post:

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James Bradshaw / Globe and Mail:

Canadian radio host Jian Ghomeshi fired from CBC over public revelations of his private sex life, plans to sue for $50M — Ghomeshi says he was fired from CBC over sex life being made public — The CBC has ended its relationship with renowned broadcaster Jian Ghomeshi after receiving information that …

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Kurt Wagner / Re/code:

Whisper editorial staff placed on leave includes editor-in-chief Neetzan Zimmerman — Whisper Suspends Some Editorial Staff Following Guardian Report — Anonymous messaging app Whisper has suspended some members of its editorial staff in the wake of a troubling article from the Guardian …

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Michael Heyward / Whisper:
Whisper responds to Guardian's “10 questions”, says members of editorial team put on leave

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Jay Rosen / The Conversation:

Journalists need a point of view if they want to stay relevant — If extreme polarization is now an enduring feature of American politics — not just a bug — how does that change the game for journalists? I have some ideas, but mainly I want to put that question on the...

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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:

Egyptian Media to Limit Criticism of Government — CAIRO — A group of Egyptian newspaper editors pledged Sunday to limit their criticism of state institutions, a day after Egypt's president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, warned of a “conspiracy” behind a militant attack last week that killed at least 31 soldiers.

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Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Ben Bradlee Could Teach Us All a Thing or Two About Real Disruption — When he died this week at 93 years old, the kudos for and remembrances of former Washington Post editor extraordinaire Ben Bradlee flooded across the Internet in a blast-from-the-past exudation.

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Brendan Nyhan / New York Times:

Studies show Americans don't in fact live in information cocoons of like-minded media sources — Americans Don't Live in Information Cocoons — In this polarized age, have citizens retreated into information cocoons of like-minded media sources? — A new Pew Research Center report found …

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Eric Blattberg / Digiday:

Q&A with Nate Silver on launch of Signals, FiveThirtyEight's data-driven film project — Nate Silver's model shows digital video winning for FiveThirtyEight — Seven months after launching FiveThirtyEight as an standalone site under ESPN, founder Nate Silver is bringing his data-flavored journalism to video.

Alexander Klöpping / Medium:

Blendle, a Dutch news aggregator that charges by the article, announces $3.8M in funding from NYT and Axel Springer for European expansion — Today our journalistic startup got backed by The New York Times and Axel Springer — Less than six months ago we launched our journalism startup Blendle out of Utrecht in The Netherlands.

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Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com:

Amazon Announces New Streaming Device, Fire TV Stick, Special Limited Pricing Of $19 — This morning Amazon announced a new HDMI streaming device called the Fire TV Stick, which is already available for pre-order and will ship before black Friday. (Nov. 19th) Amazon is offering Prime members …

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Roy Peter Clark / Poynter:

From AIDS to Ebola: Journalism, disease, and the mentality of fear — I remember a day back in the 1980s when I first met a person who I thought had AIDS. I was sitting at the front desk of the old storefront building of the Poynter Institute when a tall gaunt man entered through the glass doors and approached me with a question.

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