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1:35 AM ET, September 8, 2010

Top News:

Network News Changes: Just A Matter of Time — Execs may issue denials about possible deals such as ABC/Bloomberg or CBS/CNN, but the partnerships seem to have a whiff of inevitability — There's a lot of juicy gossip swirling in media circles these days regarding who may be getting into bed with whom …

Discussion: MediaPost, The Wrap, TVNewser, Company Town, Variety and Yahoo! News

Bill Carter / New York Times: At ABC News After Westin, Risk and Opportunity

The Daily Beast:
Who Pushed ABC News' Chief?

Discussion: Howard Kurtz, Company Town, Gawker, The Daily Beast, Romenesko, The Wrap, Tuned In, TVNewser, Associated Press and New York Times

Guardian:

Witness will testify on phone hacking — • Ross Hall transcribed hacked voicemail for other journalists — • Police likely to interview Andy Coulson, says Met officer — • New inquiry launched by home affairs select committee — A key witness from inside the News …

Discussion: CJR, The Staggers, New York Times, Politics Daily and BBC

Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
NY Times will not assist police investigation of tabloid

Discussion: Guardian, New York Observer and Romenesko

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:

How readers consume their news online is changing journalism, but it's not just about the clicks — I can no longer file a story in our computer system without filling out a box, a small gray square that may well determine the future of serious journalism. — The box is supposed …

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire, the Econsultancy blog, International Media, eMedia Vitals and Romenesko

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Real Journalism Threatened by Knowledge of What People Like

Discussion: The Wall Blog

Choire / The Awl:

Gawker Media Now Bigger Than All Newspapers Online — Except One — The latest traffic memo arrives from Gawker Media honcho Nick Denton: in it, Comscore shows that his network of sites is bigger than any newspaper online but the New York Times. That being said? “The newspapers are now the least of our competition.

Discussion: Crikey

Lois Beckett / The Snitch:

NPR Takes ‘Web-First’ Approach to Blogging. What Does That Mean? — Tomorrow, National Public Radio will formally launch the Argo Project, a group of 12 topic-based news blogs hosted by different NPR affiliates across the country. Two of the blogs are Bay Area-based: KALW's The Informant …

Jonathan Weber / The Bay Citizen:

Working with The New York Times — The New York Times has a “public editor” who “works outside of the reporting and editing structure of the newspaper and receives and answers questions or comments from readers and the public, principally about articles published in the paper.”

Discussion: Media Nation

The Atlantic Online:

When ‘Bite Me’ Is ‘Off the Record’ — A day after Rolling Stone Magazine published an explosive profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, featuring raw comments and salty language, a sort of self-generated audit of Washington's journalistic conventions took off inside the Beltway.

Discussion: Mediaite and Soup

/ Jay Rosen:

The Journalists Formerly Known as the Media: My Advice to the Next Generation — This is adapted and expanded from the Inaugural Lecture I gave to the incoming class of journalism students at Science Po in Paris, September 2, 2010: their first day. You can find reports on the speech in English here …

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's …, Rebooting The News and News Launch Diary

Andrew Fitzgerald / Promiscuous Intelligence:

Citizen Medicine and Citizen Journalism — In my many Google Alerts is one for “citizen journalism.” I get some interesting material from it and most often it's people picking on the subject in defense of “real journalism” (which I do not have a Google Alert set up for.)

Taylor Buley / Buleyean String:

HP Breaks Its Own News With Lawsuit Over Hurd's Move To Oracle — HP announced on Tuesday that it is pursuing a civil case against HP chief exec-turned-Oracle-exec Mark Hurd “to protect HP's trade secrets” as Hurd transitions to a new gig as part of the Oracle triumvirate.

Discussion: GigaOM, Computerworld, TechCrunch, DailyFinance, Gizmodo, Globe and Mail, HipMojo.com and Engadget, more at Techmeme »

CNN:

Exclusive first peek at ‘Parker Spitzer’ — CNN announces the name and Oct. 4th premiere date for the Kathleen Parker and Eliot Spitzer program, weeknights at 8 p.m. ET.

Discussion: The Wire, Mediaite, Salon, Broadcasting & Cable, The Wrap, rbr.com, New York Observer, Hotline On Call and Wonkette

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction:

Man Booker Prize 2010 shortlist announced — Judges decide on six shortlisted titles — Peter Carey, Emma Donoghue, Damon Galgut, Howard Jacobson, Andrea Levy and Tom McCarthy are today, Tuesday 7 September, announced as the six shortlisted authors for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

Discussion: Jacket Copy, GalleyCat, mediabistro.com, New York Observer and New York Magazine

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

IPad Magazine Subscriptions, With a Catch: Zinio Launches Apps for Sporting News, National Geographic — Another day, another new iPad magazine app. But the latest entry, from Sporting News, is worth mentioning, at least for its subscription model. — That is: Unlike much bigger rival …

Discussion: Publishing Executive News, MediaPost, Poynter Online, NetNewsCheck Latest and eMedia Vitals

Nieman Foundation News:

Nieman Foundation and Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting join forces to strengthen global health reporting — CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - A new collaboration between the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting will support international reporting initiatives …

Luisa Beltran / PE Hub Blog:

Ex-Modern Luxury CEO Sues Company — Michael Kong, the former CEO of Modern Luxury Media, along with ex-CFO Jeff Goldstein, are suing the magazine publisher, which could throw a monkey wrench into the Dickey family's planned buy of the company. — According to court documents filed …