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4:50 PM ET, July 5, 2010

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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
At Yahoo, Using Queries to Steer News Coverage  —  Welcome to the era of the algorithm as editor.  —  For as long as hot lead has been used to make metal type, the model for generating news has been top-down: editors determined what information was important and then shared it with the masses.
David Carr / New York Times:
The Media Equation: For Blogger, ‘Outspoken’ Was a Selling Point, Till It Wasn't  —  Wanted: Political blogger covering the conservative movement.  Must be provocative and write with a strong point of view although not in a way that would reveal bias or offend any of your potential subjects.
BBC:
At a glance: BBC's annual report  —  The BBC's annual report has been published for the financial year 2009-10.  —  Here are some of the key points from the review, which is conducted by the management and its regulatory body, the BBC Trust.  —  The corporation made £316 million in efficiency savings over the past year.
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Jemima Kiss / Guardian:
Trust endorses 25% budget cut to BBC online services  —  Trust insists that likely £30m reduction would be ‘carefully targeted’ to allow growth in less commercially viable areas  —  The BBC Trust today endorsed a 25% budget cut to the BBC's online services as part of wider cost savings across …
Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
On The Economist's Cover, Only a Part of the Picture  —  It was the ideal metaphor for a politically troubled president.  —  There was President Obama on the cover of the June 19 issue of The Economist, standing alone on a Louisiana beach, head down, looking forlornly at the ground.
Curt Hopkins / ReadWriteWeb:
Major Newspaper Chain Goes Open Source  —  The argument over the utility of open source has one more voter in the yes camp.  This time, it's the Journal Register Company, a U.S. newspaper chain with 170 publications.  —  Calling it the Ben Franklin Project, the company tried open source for a month.
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Mark Fitzgerald / EditorandPublisher.com:
None Dare Call Them ‘Newspapers’: Canwest Chain to be ‘Postmedia Network Inc.’  —  CHICAGO  —  Canwest Limited Partnership LLC never exactly screamed “newspaper company,” but when the sale closes of the publishing group that includes the National Post, Ottawa Citizen and Vancouver Sun …
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Larry King Dreams a Little  —  After announcing the end of his 25-year-old talk show last Tuesday, Larry King waited all of half an hour before daydreaming about the next line on his résumé.  —  “I got to get other things to do,” Mr. King said as his guest on CNN, Bill Maher …
Discussion: CNN and Chickaboomer
John Markoff / New York Times:
Taking the Mystery Out of Web Anonymity  —  THE Obama Administration is trying to fix the Internet's dog problem.  —  The problem, as depicted in Peter Steiner's legendary 1993 New Yorker cartoon, is that on the Internet nobody knows you're a dog.  And thus the enduring conundrum over who can be trusted in cyberspace.
Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Sunday Times ‘borrows’ free copy to put behind its paywall  —  Ever since Times Newspapers announced that it would erect an online paywall, its various apologists have argued that charging for access is necessary to pay for “quality journalism.”  —  So we heard a lot about the high cost …
Discussion: Editors Weblog
Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
Guardian Media Group Makes Its Finance Chief CEO  —  Now that its long-time CEO Carolyn McCall has flown off to run budget airline easyJet, Guardian Media Group is giving its interim replacement Andrew Miller the job permanently, effective immediately.  —  Miller had been chief financial officer …
Christopher Beam / New York Magazine:
A Reasonable Man  —  In a world of loud voices and extreme positions, David Brooks manages to be both irrelevant and absolutely essential.  —  D avid Brooks is angry—for David Brooks, at least.  “This is a damn outrage, to be honest,” he tells David Gregory on Meet the Press.
Discussion: New York Observer
 
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