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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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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.
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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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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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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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Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Lab:
Evernote users compare news links from Context feature to ads and worry about privacy of 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.
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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Dylan Byers / Politico:
New Republic staffers resign en masse — The majority of The New Republic's masthead resigned en masse on Friday following the owner's decision to force out the editorial leadership, move the magazine to New York, and rebrand the venerable, century-old publication as a “digital media company.”
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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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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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Alan D. Mutter / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
USA Weekend shuts as costs spike and ads tumble — USA Weekend, the second-largest Sunday newspaper magazine in the United States, will print its final edition on Dec. 28, succumbing to soaring distribution costs and plunging advertising. — The circulation of the Sunday supplement …
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