Mediagazer: How Micah Lee securely connected Edward Snowden with Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald (Micah Lee/The Intercept)

6:35 PM ET, November 1, 2014

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Pianist asks The Washington Post to remove a concert review under the E.U.'s ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling — The pianist Dejan Lazic, like many artists and performers, is occasionally the subject of bad reviews. Also like other artists, he reads those reviews. And disagrees with them.

Discussion: Gawker, @sfmnemonic, @grady_booch, @mschruers, @xor and @alisternburg

Micah Lee / The Intercept:

How Micah Lee securely connected Edward Snowden with Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald — Ed Snowden Taught Me To Smuggle Secrets Past Incredible Danger. Now I Teach You. — Late on the evening of January 11, 2013, someone sent me an interesting email.

Discussion: @lorenzofb, @maassp, @matthew_d_green, @a_greenberg and @dangillmor

Max Fisher / Vox:

The video of Sharyl Attkisson getting “hacked” actually just shows a stuck delete key — Former CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson has become something of a hero among segments of the right ever since she was pushed out from the network this spring over concerns that her reporting had taken an anti-Obama bias.

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Sharyl Attkisson releases video of apparent computer hack — Sharyl Attkisson, the former CBS News correspondent who claims that her computers were hacked by the government while she was reporting on the Benghazi scandal, has released a video she took with her cellphone of one apparent hack.

Discussion: @ryanlawler, @yurivictor, Talking Points Memo, Gawker, Washington Post, Mediaite and @jayrosen_nyu

Julie Posetti / WAN-IFRA:

Newly appointed Quartz Executive Editor S. Mitra Kalita on authentic journalism, smart audiences, global expansion, and the essence of a good headline — Newly appointed Quartz Executive Editor S. Mitra Kalita on authentic journalism, smart audiences, global expansion, and the essence of a good headline

Discussion: MinOnline and @mitrakalita

Ben Sisario / New York Times:

All-Christmas Radio Is an Enduring, and Profitable, Tradition — WEST ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — It was still two weeks before Halloween when WEZW-FM, the easy-listening standby of Cape May County, pushed the Christmas button. — Not to miss out on the merriment, two rival stations in Birmingham …

Discussion: @joshualambier and AllAccess.com

Michael Meyer / Columbia Journalism Review:

Should journalism worry about content marketing? — Corporate brands now compete for audience with an aggressive storytelling strategy — At a glance, the Daily Growl could be any morning news meeting held in the “win the internet through pet videos” bureau of a lavishly funded media startup.

Discussion: @zimbalist, @rafat and @jeffjarvis

Eric Blattberg / Digiday:

Inside The New York Times' video strategy — One big part of The New York Times' post-newspaper strategy: video. — The publisher rolled out a new video player this week. It swallows four times the screen real estate of its predecessor, spanning the Times homepage edge to edge.

Tim Carmody / Nieman Lab:

From rumor to out: Tim Cook reminds us that “unpublishable” facts don't live in a vacuum online — Apple CEO Tim Cook's public acknowledgment that he's gay is a welcome moment for dozens of reasons. Cook becomes the first out CEO of a Fortune 500 company, at the most successful company in the world …

Discussion: Tech Times, Personal Weblog of Joe Clark …, @tcarmody, Wall Street Journal, @tcarmody and Here & Now

Chris Ip / Columbia Journalism Review:

Ta-Nehisi Coates defines a new race beat — The Atlantic writer looks to the past to confront contemporary racism — He is the most celebrated journalist writing about race today, and yet Ta-Nehisi Coates' ideas are surprisingly unoriginal. He would be the first to say so.

Discussion: @pottytheron

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Trent Reznor Working on ‘Challenging’ Music Delivery Project at Apple — Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, who serves as Chief Creative Officer of Beats Music, became an Apple employee alongside Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre when Apple acquired Beats back in May.

Discussion: Billboard, UPROXX, Ubergizmo, TechCrunch, The Verge and 9to5Mac

Tom McCarthy / Guardian:

Matt Taibbi returning to Rolling Stone after split from First Look Media — Journalist who controversially left eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's organisation just days ago will have story in forthcoming Rolling Stone — Matt Taibbi is gathering no moss. The former Rolling Stone journalist …