Mediagazer: Rolling Stone's disastrous U-Va. story: A case of real media bias (Erik Wemple/Washington Post)

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Rolling Stone's disastrous U-Va. story: A case of real media bias — On Slate's DoubleX Gabfest podcast last month, reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely explained why she had settled on the University of Virginia as the focus for her investigative story on a horrific 2012 gang rape of a freshman named Jackie …

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

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Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

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Ken Doctor / Capital New York:

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Luke Somers, American Hostage, Is Killed During Rescue Attempt in Yemen, U.S. Official Says — SANA, Yemen — An American journalist held for more than a year by Al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen was killed during a rescue attempt by United States commandos late Friday, a senior United States official said.

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Carol Morello / Washington Post:

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

CBS, Dish Reach Carriage Deal After Brief Blackout — CBS and Dish Network on Saturday morning said they reached a multiyear pact for carriage of CBS-owned stations across the U.S. as well as the Eye's cable networks, coming after CBS pulled its signals Friday night from the satcaster.

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Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:

High-priced research publishers warily open up to the Web — Big consumer-facing publishers like The New York Times and Time Inc. may be struggling, but there's one part of the publishing industry that's still a $19 billion business: academic publishing. — Academic publishers …

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Andrea Peterson / Washington Post:

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Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
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Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Lab:

Evernote users object to Context feature that displays related news stories as they type notes — Algorithm fatigue: What Evernote's news-recommending product can tell us about privacy — e all remember Clippy, right? He of the friendly, persistent “It looks like you're writing a letter.

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Napier Lopez / The Next Web:

Netflix is testing a “Tweet Me a Reminder” button on Twitter for new episodes — It can be hard to remember when new content is streaming online - you don't get assaulted with loud commercials nearly as much as on TV, after all - but it looks like Netflix and Twitter now want to make your life easier by tweeting you reminders.

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Miriam Elder / BuzzFeed:

Russia threatens to ban BuzzFeed after the site posted news about deadly gunfight in Chechnya — Russia Threatens To Ban BuzzFeed — BuzzFeed has received a warning over a post on this week's attack in the capital of Chechnya. — Russia has warned BuzzFeed that it will ban access …

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