The Breaking Media-owned site rated its inaugural top 50 universities for 2013 on employment data, firm placement and tuition costs.

“Due to imperfections in the existing law school ranking systems, we decided to take a shot at ranking the law schools,” the site wrote in an email to FishbowlNY. “Here’s our inaugural set of rankings, reflecting our general philosophy of ranking based on outcomes rather than inputs.”

Check out the explainer the ATL folks posted on their site — it’s complete with a beautiful infographic that shows how they ranked the schools, and why they think their top 50 are better than competitors’.

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Paul Miller, a senior technology writer at The Verge, hadn’t been on the internet in a year. No social media. No Google. Nothing. As his Vox Media colleague noted in a memo to reporters on Wednesday, he had “never even seen a Vine.”

But, today, he’s back.

The Verge drummed up attention for its year-long human project with the hashtag #WhatShouldPaulSee, though it didn’t appear to gain much traction on Twitter.

In his introductory post since returning to the World Wide Web, Miller wrote:

And now I’m supposed to tell you how it solved all my problems. I’m supposed to be enlightened. I’m supposed to be more “real,” now. More perfect.

But instead it’s 8PM and I just woke up. I slept all day, woke with eight voicemails on my phone from friends and coworkers. I went to my coffee shop to consume dinner, the Knicks game, my two newspapers, and a copy of The New Yorker. And now I’m watching Toy Story while I glance occasionally at the blinking cursor in this text document, willing it to write itself, willing it to generate the epiphanies my life has failed to produce.

I didn’t want to meet this Paul at the tail end of my yearlong journey.

Read his full post at The Verge for more.

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The Atlantic Books, the new imprint, will publish several long-form stories this year, the magazine said in a press release. Details of the next publication will be announced in the coming weeks.

“Over the two decades that Jonathan has been writing for The Atlantic, he’s produced revelatory articles on everything from politics to foreign policy to, in our current issue, end-of-life care.  But this book is his most powerful work,” James Bennet, editor in chief of The Atlantic, said in a statement. “We are honored to make it the debut title of The Atlantic Books.”

Rauch, a contributing editor at the magazine, chronicles his quarter-century of denial, living in an inverted world “where love is hate, attraction is envy, and childhood never ends. He comes to think of himself as a kind of monster—until one day, seemingly miraculously, the world turns itself upright and the possibility of love floods in.”

“Denial: My Twenty-Five Years Without a Soul” is available now exclusively onKindle Singles and soon via Nook, iBooks, and Kobo for $1.99. For more information, please visit www.theatlantic.com/denial.

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Gawker and Jezebel went down on Monday afternoon in an apparent server failure, but were quickly revived.

The cause of the crash was not immediately clear. Gawker Media’s other sites, including Gizmodo, io9 and Kotaku, remained live.

A Gawker editor and a spokesperson did not immediately respond to emails from FishbowlNY requesting comment.

Sorry for the brief downtime! We are back. Hi.

— Valleywag (@Valleywag) April 30, 2013

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The Huffington Post announced the launch of a German edition on Monday, rounding off its local European offerings that already include versions in France, Spain, Italy and the U.K. There’s also a Canada edition.

And a Japanese edition is coming in May. Hence the headline. Har, har.

As with the other sites, HuffPost partnered with a local media company — in this case Tomorrow Focus AG.

“We are thrilled to be partnering with Tomorrow Focus to launch the German edition of the Huffington Post,” editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington said in a press release. “Tomorrow Focus is deeply involved in virtually every sector of digital content in Germany, and there is no one we’d rather be partnering with for this expansion.”

The site will be based in Munich and staffed by local journalists and writers.

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Forget BuzzFeed’s astronomical rise to journalistic and meme-tastic bliss. Put aside their shouts out from President Obama, their allegedly awesome White House Correspondents Dinner parties, their ever-growing list of big-name (and, presumably, high-price) journalists joining the masthead.

FeedBuzz is the new, hip site and if you aren’t reading it, you’re probably, like, stuck in the antediluvian epoch that was the first half of 2013.

See, FeedBuzz features a VAClub, guest writers and videos.

Videos!

And who cares how many lists BuzzFeed can compile of cats doing this and that. Who even thinks about goats that sound like humans now? What are you, a grandma? Come on.

The cool thing to scroll through is Arab children feasting their eyes on hamburgers.

Like, totally hitting that international news angle that Buzz — what was it again? — oh, yeah, BuzzFeed could never cover.

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And as a new Tumblr that began posting six days ago seems to show, there are many Tech Companies That Only Hire Men.

• Apple is seeking a Commissions and Subsidy Analyst, and he will work with …
• Microsoft is seeking an engineer, and he needs to be familiar with the latest algorithms …

Even Yahoo, captained by the ever-intriguing Marissa Mayer, seems to have a male-bias.

• “The candidate will build quality into the solution by writing the appropriate unit tests for his code and work with qa counter…”

For more, click over to the Tumblr. Do you think New York’s tech companies should be working harder to attract women? Tell us below in the comments.

h/t [Buzzfeed's Anna North]

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AOL has shuttered its AOL Music division and laid off its staff, according to pink-slipped employees on Twitter.

Spinner.com, a rock-music news site under the AOL Music banner, announced suddenly on Thursday afternoon that it was shutting down. Minutes later, it said in a tweet that the entire music editorial division of the media giant, which owns The Huffington Post, was closing, too.

All of AOL Music is shutting down. Thank you all for your support. We had such a blast.

— Spinner.com (@Spinner) April 26, 2013

AOL Music operates the main homepage music.aol.com along with the sites The Boot and Tour Tracker, which appear to be on the chopping block.

Dan Reilly, the site’s editor, said on Twitter that he was “sitting in an HR meeting right now, trying to negotiate keeping our computers for a few more days.”

Well, we all just got laid off. AOL Music is finished.

— Dan Reilly (@danreilly11) April 26, 2013

The number of employees laid off remains unclear.

Three AOL spokeswomen did not immediately respond to repeated calls from FishbowlNY requesting comment.

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And that was just for her acclaimed Tumblr project, 100 Interviews.

Since then, the newest hire by The Daily Dot, the so-called “internet newspaper” based in Austin, has freelanced for The New York Times Magazine and Cosmopolitan and served as a staff editor for Thought Catalog.

The Manhattan-based writer will be the fifth New York staffer for The Daily Dot, which churns out the sort of millennial-geared feature stories on internet culture and viral news that might appear on BuzzFeed, Gawker or the less personally confessional posts of Thought Catalog.

She will work under the site’s inaugural New York correspondent, assigning editor Cooper Fleishman. Two other reporters and a software data engineer live in the city, too.

“The site is run the way that I remember newsrooms are run,” she told FishbowlNY in an interview. “I can do my daily duties, then there’s a lot of encouragement to do longer stuff.”

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So, what’s a CBS or NBC or ABC to do? Disrupt its own model, argues Columbia Business School professor Rita Gunther McGrath.

In a post on the Harvard Business Review, she writes:

The basic problem is that the constraints which broadcasters have historically used to protect their profits have now been relaxed — or have even disappeared. Indeed, the New York Times recently noted that the profit model for broadcasters is under assault, citing “cracks in the citadel of TV profits.” The issue is that when you sell things in bundles you can charge for a whole bunch of things nobody really wants — customers will pay for the entire bundle in order to get the one or two things they actually want. This worked for years in cable television — give customers hundreds of channels they won’t watch but will pay for anyway in order to obtain ESPN or HBO.

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“Starting 14 months ago I began to move Betaworks into being an operating company,” CEO John Borthwick wrote. “in our first three years we were a factory for building companies, we built them and spun them out, hired CEO’s and got other people to fund them. 14 months ago I paid our investors all their money back and started making the shift to operating company.”

The purchase comes ahead of the release of Digg Reader, which it has touted as a replacement for the now-defunct Google Reader.

Read the full TechCrunch post for details here.

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“Let’s Play Spot the Non-Whites Around Rupert Murdoch!”

But Gawker’s fierce commenters turned the gun on Nick Denton‘s flagship site.

“Gawker media is not exactly a Rainbow,” wrote one under the nom-de-commentaire, birthdeath. “Pot, meet kettle.”

“No, not a rainbow. But for what it’s worth and since you asked, 1/3 of our masthead (at this site, not company-wide) is not white,” Cook replied.

Wrote another commenter: “I’m sure the difficulty in having more people of color at sites like Buzzfeed and Gawker is that they only want to pay people under 40,000 a year….and they want them to live in NYC and be super trendy etc. So who can afford to live like that? Trust-fund, predominately white, babies of course. See: Lena Dunham’s character in ‘Girls.’”

So, was Cook race-baiting for clicks, here? Or was he making a fair observation? Tell us in the comments below.

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For some reason, they left out BuzzFeed, the news site entirely built on the idea of socializing online and sharing stories, but never mind that because they did include Olivia Ma, the head of news and media partnerships from the most beloved social network, Google+.

Here are some photos from the summit:

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The Editors’ Lab series, organized by the Global Editors Network, invites teams of two — one designer, one developer –to build apps and projects. The Times event is based on “newsgaming,” studying the intersection of games and journalism.

The contestants are chosen from a number of different major media institutions, including the Associated Press and the Boston Globe.

Here are more details from the Times‘ post:

Judges from The New York Times, the Online News Association, the Knight Foundation and the Global Editors Network will review the teams’ projects and choose one winner. The grand prize is $6,500 — plus the chance to compete against nine other winning teams at the GEN News Hackathon in Paris. At the Editors’ Lab in Buenos Aires last September, the winning team created visualizations of auto theft statistics using data from several sources, including the public.

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Berg is the second major departure from the 11-person team in the last two months. In March, Zeke Miller left the New York-based news site for a gig at Time‘s Washington bureau.

It’s unclear what prompted Berg’s departure, but in a tweet announcing her leaving, she called the news “bittersweet.”

Some bittersweet personal news: Today is my last day with BuzzFeed.

— Rebecca Berg (@rebeccagberg) April 17, 2013

Berg did not immediately respond to an email from FishbowlNY requesting comment.

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