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New York Times:
Tribune Company Ousts Randy Michaels as Chief — The Tribune Company's board of directors resolved on Friday what had been its preoccupation for most of the week: sealing the fate of Randy Michaels, the controversial chief executive who became a dark sideshow to his bankrupt company's financial struggles.
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Trib Nation, Gretawire and Mixed Media
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Reuters:
Tribune to detail bankruptcy plan, but fights loom — Newspaper publisher Tribune Co. is expected to unveil a plan on Friday to settle billions of dollars in debts and end its two-year bankruptcy, but it still faces some potentially nasty legal fights. — The owner of the Los Angeles Times …
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Associated Press
Om Malik / GigaOM:
There is No New Media: It's All New Consumption — “The most ominous of fallacies-the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.” -Freyda Stark — So, now television broadcasters are blocking Google TV from getting access to the content they're putting online.
Jon Bershad / Mediaite:
The Weekend Of WikiLeaks Begins: Embargo Ends And The Torrent Of Classified Info Starts To Seep Out — And, with that, the release of 400,000 classified military documents, dubbed The Iraq War Logs, has begun. WikiLeaks, the organization that previously released 70,000 documents …
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BuzzMachine, Guardian, Datablog, International Media, New York Times, The Daily Dish, Aljazeera and CJR
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New York Times:
The Iraq Archive: The Strands of a War
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CNN, The New Yorker Blog, Outside the Beltway, Politics Daily, BBC, Guardian, The Atlantic Online, The Huffington Post and The Nation, more at Techmeme »
Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
WikiLeaks suggests news outlets publishing Iraq docs soon
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ABCNEWS, Agence France Presse and This Just In
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
OpenFile Wants to Re-Invent Local Journalism — When OpenFile founder and CEO Wilf Dinnick was still working as a foreign correspondent for CNN in the Middle East, he was summoned to the network's London office where the senior executives showed off iReport, CNN's citizen journalism project.
Andrew Alexander / Washington Post:
Post's Amazon links in stories raise ethical questions — When you're reading a Post review online, click on a highlighted book title and you'll likely be directed to Amazon.com, where you can purchase it instantly. It's convenient for readers. But is it costly to credibility?
Dave Itzkoff / ArtsBeat:
‘South Park’ Apologizes for Lifted Material in ‘Inception’ Parody — Updated — The creators of “South Park,” the animated Comedy Central series, apologized on Friday to the creators of a Web comedy video satirizing the summer blockbuster “Inception”, following a recent episode of …
Discussion:
Runnin' Scared, New York Magazine and Movieline
Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:
Media Moves: Doree Shafrir to Rolling Stone — Doree Shafrir — who was responsible for, among other things, being one-half of the author of the blog-to-book phenomenon that was Postcards from Yo Momma and being responsible for the “Hipster Grifter” story during her tenure …
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The Doree Chronicles
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
NPR's Schiller Says Juan Williams Was Fired Because of Ethics Guidelines — The timing might not have been perfect. But firing Juan Williams was the right decision, the NPR chief executive, Vivian Schiller, said in an interview Friday. — NPR found itself under fire on Friday for the decision …
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New York Times, Hot Air, The Maynard Institute, Reason and Opinionator
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Steven Zeitchik / Los Angeles Times:
Hollywood's little secret: movie purgatory — Sometimes, studios change their minds about releasing a movie, even if it has already been completed. Films with big stars such as Matt Damon, John Cusack, Eddie Murphy and Mel Gibson have all been there. — ‘CASE 39’: Even though RenEe Zellweger starred …
The Daily Beast:
Barry Diller Talks Newsweek & the Future of The Daily Beast — Today's lunch interlude at The Daily Beast Innovator Summit in New Orleans — between this morning's Peter Orszag, Spotify investor and Justin Timberlake doppelganger Sean Parker, and this afternoon's General McChrystal …
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The Daily Beast, Fast Company and SAI
Joe Flint / Company Town:
NBC's got a ratings situation on its hands — Every now and then a number leaps out. — Friday morning it was the size of NBC's Thursday's night audience. On a night that NBC owned for decades, the network averaged less than 5 million viewers. To put it into some context …
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Multichannel and rbr.com
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