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“Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls,” part II: David Sedaris’ book of essays

For part I of my “Lets Explore Diabetes With Owls” review, click here. *** Instead of posting something midway through David Sedaris’ latest book of essays – “Let’s explore diabetes with owls” – like I...

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Now Reading: True Detective, journalism in the new media world, Elisabeth...

A selection of stories I read around the Web today … True Detective finale Slate’s David Haglund and Willa Paskin exchanged emails immediately after the finale and break it down … Haglund is more OK...

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Now Reading: Malaysia Airlines flight 370, Beats music, Scarlett Johansson

A few things I read around the Web today … A simple theory about the Malaysia Airlines jet We’ve all been fascinated by the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370. It’s impossible not to be...

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Now Reading: digital video and Bloomberg Media, Anne Hull reporting tips, Bounty

A few things I read around the Web today … Bloomberg Media’s new direction Relatively new Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith recently detailed his vision for the company and its strategy for expanding...

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Nick Bilton’s ‘Hatching Twitter,’ part I

We’ve got two new books in the mix currently, and let’s start with the one I’m most excited about (and thoroughly enjoying): Nick Bilton’s ‘Hatching Twitter: A true story of money, power, friendship...

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NFL Media and a future of bottomless content

For the purposes of this blog, I rarely ever post mainstream sports media content (which I deal with daily in a professional capacity), but there was a great Q&A today that I thought crossed over...

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Here’s a great lesson on reporting from The New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin

Recently, Jeffrey Toobin wrote a compelling piece in The New Yorker about the Baltimore City Detention Center, and today he had a post on the Internet about how he found some of his sources for the...

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Now Reading: El Chapo, TV writing, Mad Men’s Pete Campbell, pageviews, David...

Clearing out some open tabs on my MacBook Pro … The hunt for the world’s most notorious drug lord This piece from Patrick Radden Keefe in The New Yorker is incredible. “The hunt for El Chapo” is the...

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Now Reading: Mad Men, college grads, Silicon Valley, GoPro, cancer doc

Quickly cleaning out some open tabs on the MacBook Pro … Matthew Weiner talks about writing and Mad Men If you like screenwriting, writing of any kind, storytelling, Mad Men, television in general or...

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The New York Times innovation report in three takeaways

The New York Times innovation report has been described as one of the most important documents ever for the digital media business. Given where we are in digital media – a place that has seen media...

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