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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
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 …
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
How Rolling Stone failed in its story of alleged rape at the University of Virginia — Journalists are paid to be skeptical and to distinguish facts from assertions: Don't get too close to your sources and check what they tell you. — Rolling Stone magazine, it appears …
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Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
The New Republic Will Not Publish Next Issue Thanks to Staff Exodus — About a Dozen Editorial Staffers Have Quit Since Thursday — Hispanic Fact Pack 2014 — The New Republic magazine will not publish its next issue, which had been scheduled to appear Dec. 15, after about a dozen full …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
New Republic staffers resign en masse
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New York Times:
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.
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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Andrea Peterson / Washington Post:
Why it's so hard to calculate the cost of the Sony Pictures hack — The cyberattack on Sony Pictures went far beyond the typical corporate hack — with attackers allegedly leaking huge amounts of data, including personal information about employees and internal company strategy information.
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Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
Sony Hack Reveals Top-Secret Profitability of 2013 Movies — A new document reveals figures for ‘This Is the End,’ ‘Grown Ups 2,’ ‘Captain Phillips’ and ‘American Hustle,’ among others — As The Hollywood Reporter continues to sift through a massive trove of Sony Pictures documents leaked …
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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@digiday
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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@ceodonovan
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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Electronista, VideoInk and The Verge
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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@maxseddon, @miriamelder, TechCrunch and Gigaom
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Prominent Azerbaijani Journalist Sent To Two-Month Pretrial Detention — Azerbaijani reporter Khadija Ismayilova was taken from a Baku courthouse to a pretrial detention center on December 5 as supporters gathered outside the court, chanting her name. — BAKU — A court in Baku has ordered …
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