Zach Seward's Top Stories

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  1. Statement On Michael Hastings
    buzzfeed.com ❘ Shared by Andy Carvin, Brian Fung and 31 others
    BuzzFeed is saddened to report that Michael Hastings died in a car accident early this morning in Los Angeles. He was 33. Ben Smith, BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief, said in a statement: We are shocked and devastated by the news that Michael Hastings is...
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  2. Michael Hastings Dead at 33
    rollingstone.com ❘ Shared by Colin Jones, jhazard and 22 others
    Michael Hastings Courtesy of Blue Rider Press/Penguin Michael Hastings, the fearless journalist whose reporting brought down the career of General Stanley McChrystal, has died in a car accident in Los Angeles, Rolling Stone has learned. He was...
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  3. IAm Michael Hastings, a reporter for BuzzFeed and a writer for Rolling Stone.
    reddit.com ❘ Shared by Ben Smith, dan sinker and 7 others
    Okay, here's my advice to you (and young journalists in general): 1.) You basically have to be willing to devote your life to journalism if you want to break in. Treat it like it's medical school or law school. 2.) When interviewing for a job,...
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  4. Why Publishers Should Ban Slideshows
    digiday.com ❘ Shared by Seamus Condron, Pascal Taillandier and 4 others
    Chris Johanesen is vp of product for Buzzfeed “Slideshow” has become a dirty word on the Web, and with good reason. Here’s why Buzzfeed will never have slideshows and what that means in the media industry. Before Buzzfeed was a media company, we...
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  5. How the IRS keeps the $4.3 trillion nonprofit world secret
    washingtonpost.com ❘ Shared by Digg Kickers, Steve Rhodes and 3 others
    How the IRS keeps the $4.3 trillion nonprofit world secret (Photo by Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg) You’ve heard about the the Internal Revenue Service’s habit of targeting conservative 501(c)(4) applicants for close scrutiny. You’ve also by now heard the...
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  6. The Google footnote that perfectly captures US government surveillance secrecy
    qz.com ❘ Shared by Christopher Mims, phdorset and 3 others
    Google just asked the court that oversees surveillance of foreigners inside the United States to let the company disclose more information about government demands for information. The filing, before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court,...
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  7. I Know What You Think of Me
    opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com ❘ Shared by felix salmon, Patrick LaForge, NYT and 3 others
    Anxiety: We worry. A gallery of contributors count the ways. Recently I received an e-mail that wasn’t meant for me, but was about me. I’d been cc’d by accident. This is one of the darker hazards of electronic communication, Reason No. 697 Why the...
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  8. Inside Pocket: how a startup beat its rivals to build the 'DVR for everything'
    theverge.com ❘ Shared by Callie Schweitzer, Adrianne Jeffries and 2 others
    The day before he turned 27, Nate Weiner drove from San Francisco to Mountain View for the most important meeting of his life. Weiner — he pronounces it "WINE-er," and yes, junior high was a rough time for him — made a mixtape for the occasion,...
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  9. World Leaders Take Most Menacing G8 Photo Ever -- Daily Intelligencer
    nymag.com ❘ Shared by MirandaN, Lindsey Wiebe and 2 others
    "How was the G8?" "It was good. We discussed economic cooperation and anti-terror policies and sacrificed a baby calf to the gods of capitalism and laughed maniacally."
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  10. New York Magazine
    nymag.com ❘ Shared by Taylor Lorenz, Lauren Rae Bertolini and 2 others
    (Photo: Bobby Doherty/New York Magazine; Patrick McMullan (Upham)) On November 29, 2010, federal agents in San Francisco arrested a 33-year-old New Yorker named Samuel Phineas Upham, setting in motion the chain of news reports that are responsible...
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