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3:26 AM ET, July 28, 2010

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C.W. Anderson / Nieman Journalism Lab:
When do 92,000 documents trump an off-the-record dinner?  A few more thoughts about Wikileaks  —  Sometimes you can spend an entire morning racing the clock to put together the perfect blog post, and once you're done, find a quote or two that would have let you sum up the entire thing in a lot less time.
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:   Value-added journalism  —  I asked Alan Rusbridger …
Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!:
MTV Releasing Facebook Game and iPhone App to Promote “Jersey Shore”  —  The second season of MTV's reality hit, Jersey Shore, will debut this coming Thursday.  To build anticipation around the first episode fist-pump style, MTV is releasing a Facebook game and iPhone app that will feature …
Discussion: BRANDING UNBOUND
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Deadline.com:
CONFIRMED: ABC Family's Paul Lee Taking Over As President Of ABC Entertainment Group After Steve McPherson Resigns  —  4TH UPDATE 6:30 PM: We've just confirmed that ABC Family President Paul Lee will take over as president of ABC Entertainment Group.  Just like Steve McPherson, Lee will manage both ABC Entertainment and ABC Studios.
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Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Ex-Washington Post blogger David Weigel joins Slate  —  Journalist David Weigel, who resigned from the Washington Post last month after a leaked-email controversy, is joining Slate as a political reporter.  —  “I'm thrilled to be joining Slate, thrilled to be working with writers I've read …
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction:
Longlist announced for Man Booker Prize 2010  —  Man Booker Dozen announced  —  The judges for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction today, Tuesday 27 July, announce the longlist for the prize, the leading literary award in the English speaking world.  —  A total of 138 books …
Mark Fitzgerald / EditorandPublisher.com:
New ABC Publisher's Statement Will Count ‘Branded Editions’ and Nonpaid ‘Verified’ Circulations  —  CHICAGO  —  The Audit Bureau of Circulations' board approved sweeping changes in the way newspapers report circulation.  —  Among the changes: Newspapers that publish so-called “branded editions” …
Daniel Frankel / The Wrap:
The Twitter Effect Isn't What Hollywood Thought  —  The Twitter Effect.  —  The term entered the lexicon last summer after Universal's Sacha Baron Cohen comedy “Bruno” tumbled more than 36 percent in its first 24 hours in theaters.  —  One year later, the social media trend …
Discussion: MediaPost and The Big Picture
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Newspapers Hit New Low as an Information Source  —  The number of Americans who say that newspapers are an important source of information continues to decline, according to a survey by the The Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism.
Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times:
Hulu's sharp decline in viewership underscores inconsistency in measuring size of online audience  —  Contradictory data from competing measurement firms make it hard for advertisers to determine which websites should get their business.  —  Keith Richman, chief executive of Break.com …
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Study: Most Brands Still Irrelevant on Twitter  —  Marketers Are Certainly Tweeting, but Users Are Barely Listening  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Attention brands: Twitter users aren't talking to you or about you.  In fact, they barely know you exist.  —  That's one of the conclusions …
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and Crikey
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Facebook launches a “Facebook + Media” page  —  Last night, Facebook unveiled a project that it's had in the works for a while: a media page devoted to journalists, developers, and other “media partners.”  Facebook + Media is dedicated, it says, to “helping news, TV, video, sports …
Discussion: Hacks and Hackers …
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Karen Everhart / Current.org:
Uproar over Fresh Air in Mississippi  —  After Mississippi Public Broadcasting abruptly dropped Fresh Air from its radio schedule July 8, its explanation of “recurring inappropriate content” in the talk show didn't sit well with fans of the program.  —  Judith Lewis, executive director …
Discussion: Romenesko
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Discovery Promotes Digital Media Head Campbell  —  Discovery Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) is giving corporate development exec Bruce Campbell some additional responsibilities as chief development officer and general counsel.  At the same time, Campbell will be handing over his duties …
Patricia Sellers / Fortune:
Steve Jobs' mark on ABC's Lost  —  How the Apple CEO may have changed the course of the hit ABC show with one comment back in 2005.  —  by Patricia Sellers, editor-at-large  —  from left to right Carlton Cuse, Barry Jossen, Damon Lindelof, and Anne Sweeney
Dominic Ponsford / Editor's Blog:
The paywall debate: At the Financial Times there is no debate, it works  —  Wherever you stand on the great paywall debate, you can't argue with the fact that one UK national newspaper publisher has proved that a paywall can work.  —  Figures released by the Financial Times yesterday revealed …
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
'FT's paywall helps us understand users'
Discussion: Editors Weblog
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Piers Morgan on Jay Leno Tonight, Will He Talk Larry King?  —  Tonight “America's Got Talent” judge Piers Morgan will be a guest on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.”  While Morgan is presumably there to discuss the semi-finals of the NBC talent show, Leno has promised to ask about that other show Morgan …
Discussion: On Media's Blog
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Redstone gifted rocker with his own stock  —  THR EXCLUSIVE: Mogul gave shares to Barbarellas singer  —  NEW YORK — Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone gave the lead singer of a girls' band some of his own company stock as a personal gift, according to a copy of the regulatory filing obtained by The Hollywood Reporter.
Discussion: Company Town
Jon Friedman / MarketWatch:
The New Yorker elitist?  Remnick: I don't see it  —  Commentary: ‘We do something that a lot of people want’ … NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — New Yorker Editor David Remnick bristles when someone saddles his magazine with the “e” word — elitist.  —  “Look,” he said, “this word 'elitist …
 
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Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
White House briefing room may get shaken up
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Why Fair Use is Not Just Acceptable, It's Essential for the Future
Discussion: Ars Technica, TeleRead and Gizmodo
Jim Romenesko / Romenesko:
Just-launched iNeedaGreatStory.com claims it 'makes life easier …
Jason Fell / Folio:
Newsweek, TheStreet Enter Content Sharing Partnership
Richard / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Recording Industry Giant Tries to Undermine ‘Safe Harbor’ …
Discussion: NewTeeVee
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
If Your Music Business Model Is To Make Money On Live Shows …
David Cohn / MediaShift Idea Lab:
Spot.Us Goes National, Gets Clay Shirky as Sponsor
Discussion: Spot Us
 Earlier Picks: 
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Ready for 3-D Web Video? Break Media Is Serving It Up Anyway
Discussion: NewTeeVee
Joe Mandese / MediaPost:
Clients Weigh In On Nielsen Plan To Give Less ‘Weight’ To Internet Households
Damien Hoffman / Wall St. Cheat Sheet:
A True American Success Story - with David Asman at Fox Business Network
Lawrence Meyer / Watchdog Blog:
The Newsroom on Steroids  —  Let's state the obvious at the outset …
Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:
Boston Screamer: News nabs Convey to pummel Post
Discussion: Media Nation and FishbowlNY
Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
The new journalism  —  Less gatekeeping, thanks to the Internet …
Discussion: Mediaite
Daniel Lyons / Newsweek:
Read On  —  Why the iPad hasn't killed the Kindle.