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Basic Google search: still baffling some journalists
In a post entitled Want to Hear What Katie Couric Said Yesterday? Don’t Read Portfolio, the Wall Street Journal‘s Peter Kafka points out that Portfolio media blogger Jeff Bercovici had to pull down a story obtained under Chatham House rules. Some MediaMemo readers have asked me to reprint all of Bercovici’s story, but I don’t…
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Unrequired Reading {12.11.08}
These are some of the things that have caught my attention lately. It’s a more eclectic mix than just the news business, but then so’s life:
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A Media Micro-Mogul writes…
Nick Denton, Gawker Media’s micro-mogul, usually has a nice line in online media business analysis. But here, alas, he disappoints [my italics]: 1. Get out of categories such as politics to which advertisers are averse.… media groups cannot afford in the current environment to fund their most noble missions; they should leave that to public-spirited…
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The unanonymous Economist
The Economist has a proud tradition of anonymity. But in case you wondered who wrote the piece on the death of blogging – it was this gentleman, and he has a very entertaining blog.