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Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:
Interview with Mark Bowden and Seymour Hersh on covering Osama bin Laden's death, and how competing agendas create contrasting narratives on official stories — What Do We Really Know About Osama bin Laden's Death? … Mark Bowden was watching a ballgame — the Phillies versus the Mets …
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Mark Bowden / Vanity Fair:
The New York Times Magazine's suggestion that The Finish is fabricated has no factual basis — There's Just One Problem with Those Bin Laden Conspiracy Theories — They have no factual basis, despite what you may have read in The New York Times Magazine, argues the reporter who pieced together …
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Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:
Some VCs, appearing defensive, dismiss WSJ's reporting on Theranos, but should actually welcome investigative journalism — Some tech investors sure seem to be getting defensive lately ... Nobody likes to be questioned. — But lately, some of Silicon Valley's big tech investors seem …
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Walt Hickey / FiveThirtyEight:
Analysis: Fandango's movie ratings are higher than IMDb's 79% of the time, and similarly higher than ratings on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic — Be Suspicious Of Online Movie Ratings, Especially Fandango's — You were excited for the date: dinner and a movie. Your date picked a restaurant — “It got five stars on Yelp!”
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Sources: YouTube readying programming that will be exclusive to its upcoming subscription service, will announce some of it at an event in Los Angeles Oct. 21 — YouTube Will Make You Pay to See Some of Its New Videos — Coming to YouTube: Videos you'll need to pay to see.
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New York Times:
As it expands globally, Netflix faces increasing competition and demand for local-language programming — Netflix Faces Challengers in Its Push to Expand Globally — At first glance, Miguel Díez Ferreira would seem to make an ideal customer for Netflix.
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
After the success of recent collaborations with Huffington Post and Gawker, the Intercept is considering working with other newsrooms to broaden its reach — The Intercept mulls working with other newsrooms to maximize its impact … Readers who glanced at The Huffington Post's homepage Thursday morning …
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@jayrosen_nyu, Tech Times, Foreign Policy and The Week
Meagan Doll / MediaShift:
Q&A with Northwestern University professor Josh Meyer on the challenges and opportunities of reporting on national security — How Medill is Teaching National Security in the Classroom and Beyond — Alongside more traditional news beats, Northwestern University professor Josh Meyer …
Erin Carroll / Columbia Journalism Review:
FOIA “expedited processing” provision for media often ignored, reflects widening disconnect between government and media — Why FOIA's speed clause is broken — In August of 2013, the Associated Press made a straightforward records request to the State Department.
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@cjr and @mmcauliff
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Atlantic's April redesign has tripled click-through rates, increased time spent on native ads to over four minutes, surpassing industry average — How The Atlantic gets people to spend more than 4 minutes on its native ads — The Atlantic took a user-friendly approach when it redesigned …
Adrienne Lafrance / The Atlantic:
Inside efforts to resurrect a Pulitzer-nominated 34-part story eight years after it disappeared from the web — Raiders of the Lost Web — The web, as it appears at any one moment, is a phantasmagoria. It's not a place in any reliable sense of the word. It is not a repository. It is not a library.
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The Content Strategist, NPR and Digg
David Bauder / Associated Press:
CBS refuses to run advertising for Truth, a film about a 2004 discredited 60 Minutes report — CBS bans advertising for critical film — CBS bans advertising for critical film CBS has refused to run advertising for “Truth,” the film starring Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford that revisits …
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