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2:40 AM ET, July 2, 2010

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 Top News: 
Joe Pompeo / The Wire:
Newsmax Media, Two Others Are Out Of The Running For Newsweek  —  A spokesman for Newsmax Media just sent us the following statement about the company's failed bid to buy Newsweek:  —  Newsmax Media made a serious bid to acquire Newsweek, which we believe is an extraordinary publishing property …
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Joe Pompeo / The Wire:   Marc Lasry's Avenue Capital Is Among Newsweek Finalists …
Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!:
Groupon to Offer Exclusive Deals through Local Newspapers  —  The quickly growing deal-a-day site Groupon has entered in to a partnership with The McClatchy Company — owner of The Miami Herald, The Sacramento Bee and several other newspapers — to outsource exclusive Groupon deals to McClatchy websites in 28 U.S. markets.
BBC:
China's Xinhua launches global English TV channel  —  China's state news agency Xinhua has launched a 24-hour global news channel in English.  —  Officials said CNC World would present “an international vision with a China perspective”.  —  The launch is being seen as an attempt by China …
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Anton Troianovski / Wall Street Journal:
China Agency Nears Times Square
Will Richmond / VideoNuze:
Revision3 is Achieving Unaided Advertising Recall of Up to 99%  —  When Revision3, the independent network of online video programs, has surveyed its viewers, it has discovered that 99% of them are able to identify at least 1 of its advertisers.  That incredibly high level of unaided recall …
Discussion: WebNewser
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
UK Times Goes Tentatively Paid From Friday At £1-A-Month  —  We've covered every step in Times Newspapers' conversion to paid websites - the initial plan, the confirmation, the blocking of stories from search engines and the launch in May of the two new websites behind a registration wall on a free preview basis.
Tim Adams / Business Week:
Tyler Brûlé, Media Maverick  —  Canadian-born Tyler Brûlé's magazine, Monocle, challenges just about every piece of received wisdom about what works in media these days  —  In a modest, terraced mews building beside Marylebone station in West London …
Patrick Gavin / The Politico:
JOURNOS' FAVORITE JUNKET  —  There are plenty of perks to being a reporter: free notepads, the occasional expensed source lunch and that whole “front-row seat to history” thing.  —  But, for a privileged few, there's one bonus that beats all the rest: A week of drinking top shelf booze, free of charge.
Discussion: FishbowlDC
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Anderson Cooper ‘Very Happy at CNN’ with ‘No Plans to Leave’  —  Anderson Cooper, reporting from the Gulf, has taken the time to email his staff about an online story earlier this week which claimed he was unhappy at CNN and ready to bolt the network.  From The Wrap:
Ben / Westside Independent:
Proof that the New York Times is More Popular than the Wall Street Journal — Among Thieves  —  The Wall Street Journal is in a death-match with the New York Times to win the hearts and minds of New York's intellegentsia.  But there is one crucial group to whom the Journal apparently doesn't appeal: thieves.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Paper.li Lets You Read Twitter In Daily Newspaper Form, Raises More Funding  —  Exclusive - SmallRivers, a fledging Internet startup based out of Switzerland that has developed a Web app called Paper.li that basically lets you turn Twitter streams, tags and lists into daily online newspapers …
Discussion: paper.li, ReadWriteWeb and WebNewser
Meghan Keane / Capital New York:
Not even the internet could save ‘Party Down’  —  Starz' mockucomedy may have been a niche product—New York magazine called it “TV's greatest-ever catering comedy”—and it was beloved around the web.  The ratings, however, told a different story.  —  The second-season finale last Friday brought in only 74,000 viewers.
Discussion: Best Week Ever
Matt / WordPress.com News:
Phone Your Blog  —  A broken telephone I saw while wandering around Bangkok  —  It's happened to all of us.  The night starts off innocently enough with a little gin and tonic, maybe a mojito, then next thing you know you're doing tequila shots with the bartender and the girl from Brazil …
Dylan Stableford / The Wrap:
L.A. Times Sells King Kong a Mock Editorial Wrap-Around Section  —  The L.A. Times is at it again, allowing an advertiser to overtake an editorial section.  —  On Thursday, the paper published a fake four-page wrap-around advertising section designed to look like the paper's LATEXTRA section, which was buried inside.
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Huckabee Trying Out a Daily Show for News Corp.  —  Mike Huckabee, the weekend Fox News Channel host and possible 2012 presidential candidate, is getting a six-week tryout as a daily talk show host.  —  Called “The Huckabee Show,” it will have a preview run on weekdays for six weeks …
Bill Mitchell / Newspay:
Pay Walls Debut at Three Gannett Papers Testing ‘Journalism as a Service’  —  Gannett stepped into the world of paid content today with what it termed “a small-scale test” at the Tallahassee Democrat, The Greenville (S.C.) News and The (St. George, Utah) Spectrum.  —  screengrab/Tallahassee.com
Discussion: Gannett Blog and paidContent
John Consoli / The Wrap:
Ice Cube Digicam Performance Footage Added for ‘Fallon’ Repeat  —  “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” is getting its own Bonus Feature.  —  Each night, prior to taping, Fallon's house band, the Roots, performs to get the audience pumped.  Before the May 28 show, with Ice Cube as Fallon's lead guest …
Discussion: rbr.com
Eric Alterman / The Nation:
A Conspiracy So Immense...  There used to be a specter haunting the American media—a specter called “Journolist.”  A by-invitation liberal Internet listserv that grew to 400 members, it was introduced to the larger public in a lurid March 2009 Politico cover story asking the question, “Proof of a Vast Liberal Media Conspiracy?”
Discussion: Romenesko and GalleyCat
 
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
The New Republic Adds Blogs, Claims Ad Success Amid Hybrid Pay-Free Site
Discussion: eMedia Vitals
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Wired's Dadich Adds Corporate Digital Mag Role
Discussion: New York Observer
Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
BBC's Interactive TV Exec Chakkara Heads To TalkTalk
Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:
Larry King Heading Into Bagel Biz; Will He Have To Answer To Nate N' Al?
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
When a journalism gig is paid for by outsiders
Andrew Wilson / Media Week:
Apple launches iAds ad platform
Discussion: GigaOM and Poynter Online
 Earlier Picks: 
David Zurawik / Z on TV:
Spitzer, King: Why changes at CNN matter so much
Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:
Lewis Dvorkin on the Future of Forbes: More ‘Entrepreneurial,’ ‘Scalable’
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
MediaShift:
Spot.Us Lessons: Journalists Work in, and For, the Public
Discussion: Spot Us
Brad Stone / Bits:
Amazon Introduces a New Kindle DX With Lower Price
Taylor Buley / Velocity:
Quora: A Technology Writer's Best Friend, For Now
Discussion: memeburn
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
A New Magazine for Terrorists
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
New Internet site gives some thought for food