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3:00 AM ET, June 8, 2010

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Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Apple's impact: What Steve Jobs' WWDC announcements mean for the news industry's mobile strategy  —  Apple CEO Steve Jobs just stepped off the stage in San Francisco at this year's Worldwide Developer Conference.  His announcements focused squarely on the new iPhone 4, about which you'll find …
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
The Content Graph and the Future of Brands  —  Yesterday, two stories from Aol's DailyFinance appeared in the Sunday print edition of the Daily Telegram, a newspaper in southern Michigan.  These stories appeared on a business page that would otherwise have been produced almost entirely with stories from the Associated Press.
Discussion: eMedia Vitals
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Ryan Sholin / Publish2 Blog:   Publish2 News Exchange Stories In Print: DailyFinance in the Daily Telegram
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
CNN Close to Dropping AP  —  CNN is close to dropping its subscription to the Associated Press, people familiar with the decision tell TVNewser.  —  A CNN spokesperson said that no decision has been made.  —  The move, if it happens, will mean that CNN no longer subscribes to either of the major wire services.
Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
An End for Helen Thomas and the Helen Thomas Rules  —  To many in Washington, two sets of rules seemed to apply for journalists covering the president: those for regular White House correspondents, and those for Helen Thomas.  —  Ms. Thomas, 89, made a name for herself asking tough …
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Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
Breaking: Helen Thomas Retires, Effective Immediately (Video)
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Helen Thomas Dropped By Speaking Agency, Under Fire For Remarks On Middle East
AdAge:
Does Who Creates Content Matter to Marketers in a ‘Pro-Am’ Media World?  —  Examiner Has 7.4 Million Readers, Local Ads and News — but Few Traditional Journalists  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — If you're trolling the web and hit upon an Examiner.com story, you might think you're reading the San Francisco Examiner.
Matt Heist / paidContent:
What Yahoo Needs To Do With Associated Content  —  Matt Heist is CEO of High Gear Media, a vertical publishing company that focuses on automotive content from professional writers and enthusiasts.  Prior to joining High Gear Media, Heist worked at Sidestep.com, and before that, at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO).
Clint Hendler / CJR:
WaPo denies allegation it sat on WikiLeaks video  —  Whomever had been posting to the WikiLeaks Twitter account over the last 12 hours has had some very unkind words for Wired's reporting on Bradley Manning, the young Army soldier who reportedly has been arrested for his role in leaking …
Discussion: Reuters and International Media
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U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
NBC News Hires Newsweek's Michael Isikoff  —  NBC News has hired Michael Isikoff away from Newsweek at a time when the newsweekly magazine is up for sale.  —  Mr. Isikoff will become the national investigative correspondent for NBC, a position similar to the one he has held at Newsweek since 1994, the network said.
Nat Ives / AdAge:
Wall Street Journal Expands Again With New Weekly Section  —  Former Domino Magazine Editor Consulting on New Leisure and Lifestyle Section  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The Wall Street Journal is expanding again, this time with an additional weekly section of leisure and lifestyle content …
Discussion: Romenesko and The Wire
Gavin O'Malley / MediaPost:
Tremor Bows Interactive Pre-Rolls  —  Video ad network Tremor Media on Monday is expected to announce a strategic partnership with Innovid to embed interactive elements into pre-roll video ads across Tremor's publisher network.  —  The joint product offering will be marketed under the name vChoice iRoll …
Discussion: NewTeeVee and Online Video News
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Esquire Hits 100,000 iPhone App Downloads—But Don't Talk About Sales Yet  —  It took just six months, but Esquire magazine's iPhone app has crossed a big threshold: it's gotten 100,000 downloads of in Apple's iTunes Store.  But that's only for the free “shell” that serves as a storefront to buy individual issues or subscriptions.
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Journalists running start-ups face tall odds  —  Fed up with furloughs and down-sizing - or forced involuntarily out of their jobs - journalists across the land are taking matters into their own hands by starting their own news sites.  —  While I applaud these brave and commendable efforts …
Discussion: Romenesko
Jason Fry / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Maximizing the values of the link: Credibility, readability, connectivity  —  The humble, ubiquitous link found itself at the center of a firestorm last week, with the spark provided by Nicholas Carr, who wrote about hyperlinks as one element (among many) he thinks contribute to distracted, hurried thinking online.
Changingnewsroom / The Changing Newsroom:
Preaching the Value of Verification  —  In a piece last month for Nieman Lab, Ken Doctor asks: “What's copyediting worth these days?” and concludes that in order for news organizations to really harvest tangible value from good editing they should “claim their professionalism publicly, prominently and persistently, yet discreetly.”
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Corrected: @ CM Summit: AdMob's Hamoui: Nothing New About iAd's Rich Media  —  Correction: In the original, I misheard AdMob CEO Omar Hamoui's responses to an audience question.  The story and headline have been updated to reflect the correct version.  —  Asked to navigate between Google …
Discussion: TechCrunch
Marc Reeves:
Speaking truth to power: my speech to the CBI  —  On Thursday this week (June 10), I've been invited to speak at the Senior Executive Lunch of the West Midlands CBI.  I've been asked to talk about “Tomorrow's news today - changes to regional media and what the future holds for news journalism.”
Discussion: paidContent:UK and Jon Slattery
Steve Herrmann / The Editors:
BBC News linking policy (3)  —  Links to external sites are an important part of the BBC News website and I have blogged previously about how and why we are aiming to develop what we do in this area - here and here.  —  One theme that came up was what we should do about linking to sites which require subscription.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Sugar Inc. Goes Local With FreshGuide Acquisition  —  San Franciso-based women-focused online media site Sugar Inc. made it first significant move into the local market, by announcing its purchase of FreshGuide.  —  The locally focused FreshGuide makes women-aimed city guides …
 
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Mike Shields / Mediaweek:
Video site passes Hulu in users, finds Hispanic niche
The Huffington Post:
Eliot Spitzer A Cable News Hot Commodity
Peter Delevett / Mercury News:
Noted travel writer discusses changing world of travel
Discussion: Romenesko and Gawker
Meghan Keane / the Econsultancy blog:
Will The New York Times admit a few freeloaders are good for business?
Discussion: paidContent
Holly Sanders Ware / New York Post:
Oprah drive time  —  Oprah Winfrey, the queen of daytime TV …
Discussion: TVWeek.com
Felix Gillette / New York Observer:
James Fallows Talks About Google's Impact on the Future of Newspapers
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
Stuart Elliott / Media Decoder:
Ad Revenue for Movie Theaters Rises
Discussion: The Wrap
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Adobe Tries Creeping Back Onto the iPad, With Help From Greystripe
Discussion: TechCrunch
 Earlier Picks: 
Bill Mitchell / Newspay:
Locals Pitch: We Want Time's ‘Assignment Detroit’ House
Rafat Ali / paidContent:
Six Apart Buys Green Online Ad Net NaturalPath Media
Discussion: TechCrunch
lonelysandwich:
iPad TV  —  I won't lie to you—it took two weeks with my iPad …
Discussion: Yahoo! News and broadstuff
David Kaplan / paidContent:
MTVN's Tribes Ad Network Goes Mobile
Discussion: MediaPost and eMedia Vitals
Jack Marshall / ClickZ:
Facebook Grows Video Presence
Discussion: TechCrunch
Matthew Flamm / Crain's New York Business:
Wired's iPad liftoff