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12:30 PM ET, May 7, 2010

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Jesse Fruhwirth / Salt Lake City Weekly …:
Chronicle staff investigated for “PENIS” gag  —  FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, in conjunction with the Student Press Law Center, have written a letter to university administration in support of the Chrony 9.  “These actions are unacceptable,” they write.
New York Post:
Slim has his pickings  —  MEXICAN billionaire Carlos Slim is wheeling and dealing his way through the media world.  —  According to people familiar with the matter, Slim is sinking more money into The New York Times Co., doubling his current 7 percent stake, while also visiting the offices of Newsweek …
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
On a Dramatic Afternoon for Dow, a Scramble to Cover the Story  —  Cable news anchors and financial Web sites struggled to keep up as the Dow fell nearly 1,000 points and then mostly rebounded in a matter of minutes Thursday afternoon.  —  As my colleague David Carr put it just now …
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Joe Weisenthal / The Wire:
THE MOST EXCITING MOMENT IN CNBC HISTORY: Jim Cramer Saves The Market
Emily Bryson York / AdAge:
McDonald's to Use Facebook's Upcoming Location Feature  —  Brands Eager to Build Apps Once Massive Social Network Launches Its Own Foursquare Competitor  —  CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — Facebook is preparing to launch location-based status updates for its users.
Jolie O'Dell / Mashable!:
Wikipedia Now Lets You Order Printed Books  —  Wikipedia's launching a new feature for English readers: The ability to create custom books from Wikipedia's huge bank of free content.  Because of the way Wikipedia's images and copy are licensed, they're free for anyone to access, use and share in this way.
Discussion: Lost Remote
Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon:
The horror of NPR's copycat story  —  Did a “Morning Edition” segment lift its ideas from a satirical viral video?  —  On Wednesday, NPR's “Morning Edition” correspondent Beth Accomando did a humorous segment on a modern-day horror movie cliché called “The Cell Phone Always Dies First.”
Discussion: mediabistro.com
Today's Zaman Mobile Edition:
Al-Jazeera considering Turkish broadcast  —  Given the importance of Turkey for the Arab world, Al-Jazeera is giving serious thought to beginning Turkish-language broadcasts, Qatari Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage Hamad Bin Abdulaziz al-Kawari has said.
Ian Shapira / Story Lab:
Should journalists out each other's sources?  —  On Wednesday morning, I read a piece on the Politico web site speculating about the identity of confidential sources who helped me break a story about negotiations to sell The Washington Times.  Initially, the Politico headline …
Discussion: FishbowlDC
Andrew Romano / Newsweek Blogs:
Why the Media Ignored the Nashville Flood  —  As you may have heard, torrential downpours in the southeast flooded the Tennessee capital of Nashville over the weekend, lifting the Cumberland River 13 feet above flood stage, causing an estimated $1 billion in damage, and killing more than 30 people.
Jason Chupick / PRNewser:
The FCC's Embedded Journalist Is Really a Spokesman  —  On Monday night the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) senior advisor to the chairman Steve Waldman tried out the agency's “Reboot” message on a tough crowd: regulation averse digerati from Silicon Alley.
Discussion: TVNewser, WebNewser and UnBeige
Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:
UK general election 2010 - online journalism is ordinary  —  Has online journalism become ordinary?  Are the approaches starting to standardise?  Little has stood out in the online journalism coverage of this election - the innovation of previous years has been replaced by consolidation.
Paul J. Gough / Hollywood Reporter:
Networks banking on World Cup  —  Soccer tourney begins June 11 in South Africa  —  As the World Cup ads say, one game changes everything.  —  ESPN is counting on that maxim to justify its biggest marketing blitz to date for a single event, designed to position the sports nicher …
Michael Miner / Chicago Reader:
The Sun-Times Preserves its Photo Archive by Selling It  —  Is the Sun-Times selling off its heritage at garage sale prices?  The other day eBay put up for auction an item from the paper's archives described as “Original Photo 1913 Thomas Edison Family NICE!!!”  Bidding started at $10 and ended four days later at $27.
Discussion: eMedia Vitals, Romenesko and Fitz & Jen
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:
ProPublica chief aims to make a splash  —  When ProPublica, a non-profit investigative journalism start-up, was named among the Pulitzer prize winners last month, its acceptance by the editorial elite symbolised just how much online news operations are shaking up the US news establishment.
Discussion: Journalism.co.uk
Todd Spangler / Multichannel:
Harmonic To Acquire Omneon For $274 Million  —  Deal Would Combine Harmonic's Video Encoding With Omneon's Video Production Systems  —  Video-encoding vendor Harmonic announced a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Omneon, a provider of video-production and playout gear …
blogs.abcnews.com:
Four Journalists Banned From Gitmo Coverage for Outing an Interrogator  —  The Pentagon has barred four reporters from further reporting of the military commission proceedings at the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay because they published articles identifying a witness whose identity …
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Is Brightcove the Next Flash?  —  It was just a few years ago that Adobe's Flash revolutionized video publishing by enabling media companies to reach a vast number of consumers with a plugin that ensured a consistent rich media experience across multiple operating systems and browsers.
Maureen O'Connor / Gawker:
Guy Who Sent Us Washington Post's Malcolm X-Obama Mix-Up Denies Hoax  —  The Washington Post claims a much blogged-about photo caption blooper was a “hoax.”  But the guy who sent the screencap to us stands by it: “I don't even have Photoshop on my computer!  Also two co-workers saw my screen.”
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Joseph Plambeck / Media Decoder:
Losses Slow and Digital Sales Rise at Warner Music
Discussion: Variety
Judith Rosen / Publishers Weekly:
Spiegel & Grau Look to Indies to Boost Martel
Discussion: GalleyCat and Bookninja
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Hummel Report: Another nonprofit news org with an anti-govt.-waste …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
HBO on Your iPad? There Won't Be an App for That (For a While).
Dylan Stableford / The Wrap:
Comedy Central's Head of Programming: Grilled
Discussion: rbr.com
Eriq Gardner / Billboard.Biz:
Google Sues Indie Label Over Copyright Claims
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and PlagiarismToday
John Koblin / New York Observer:
Depatures: Business Editor Jay Sherman Leaving the New York Post for Moody's
Discussion: Talking Biz News
Bloomberg:
CBS Overpaid Moonves $28 Million, Says Study of CEO Pay
 Earlier Picks: 
Editor and Publisher:
Out of Bankruptcy, ‘O.C. Register’ …
Alexei Oreskovic / MediaFile:
Actually, Yahoo is not spending another $85 million on ads
Zeke Turner / New York Observer:
Newsweek's Tumblr Guy Not Afraid to Punch Back at Crtitics
Discussion: Romenesko, DealBook and The Big Money
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Newsweek's hazy future
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Broadcasters See Big Boost In Web Video Viewership
Dina Temple-Raston / NPR:
How Media Coverage Crimped The Times Square Case
Discussion: blogs.dix-eaton.com and Romenesko