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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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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…