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11:25 AM ET, March 15, 2011

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Robminto / Online Journalism Blog:
When is an online comment defamatory?  —  Rob Minto looks at two recent cases that leave the field of libel online as confusing as ever.  —  For several years, newspapers, bloggers and other online publishers have been waiting for a landmark case to clarify defamation online.
Discussion: Media News
Lauren Kirchner / CJR:
“The News Industry Is No Longer In Control Of Its Destiny”  —  And other findings of the Pew State of the Media Report  —  Today the Pew Research Center for Excellence in Journalism released its annual “State of the Media” report, and it's a mixed bag of good and bad news.
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
State of the News Media 2011: New revenues have not arrived, but new challenges have
Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
Cable News Viewership Declines Double Digits in 2010 … After years of audience growth, cable news may have hit a wall.  —  According to the Project for Excellence in Journalism's annual State of the News Media report, cable news viewership for CNN, MSNBC and Fox News fell substantially in 2010 …
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
CNN Live ‘TV Everywhere’, New HD Video Player On The Way  —  The launches are still months away but CNN Digital has a pair of announcements from SXSW tonight that mark significant advancements for the network's online and mobile video offerings.  In early summer, CNN plans to flip the switch …
The Huffington Post:
EXCLUSIVE: Fox News Signing Former Sen. Evan Bayh As A Contributor  —  UPDATE: Fox News officially announced on Monday afternoon that former Democratic Senator Evan Bayh is becoming a contributor to the network.  —  Michael Clemente, the network's senior vice president for news, announced the move in a statement.
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
MSNBC Alters Lawrence O'Donnell ‘Shooting Fish’ Michele Bachmann Segment in Online Version  —  In our earlier write-up of Lawrence O'Donnell's Michele Bachmann-themed “Rewrite” segment, I completely missed the possibly controversial nature of O'Donnell's “shooting fish in a barrel” reference …
Discussion: The Wire
David Carr / New York Times:
Gains for NPR Are Clouded  —  The Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism will issue its annual State of the Media report on Monday, and you will be unsurprised to learn that journalism remains in broad retreat.  —  News is still on the march: for the first time ever, more people consumed their news on the Web than with newspapers.
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Mark Memmott / NPR:
NPR: O'Keefe ‘Inappropriately Edited’ Video; Exec's Words Still ‘Egregious’
Jim Romenesko / Poynter:
LAT publisher on how bankruptcy has hurt Tribune  —  Los Angeles Times publisher and Tribune co-president Eddy Hartenstein testified Monday that bankruptcy has prevented Tribune from keeping up with the rest of the publishing industry by consolidating operations, and has prevented the company …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
YouTube's Premium-Content Strategy Starts to Take Shape  —  Talks of Providing $2M-$5M Seed Funds to Agents and Producers Who Commit to Episodes  —  How do you get professional video if you don't want to do big money deals with Hollywood studios?  You go straight to the creators.
Lauren Kirchner / CJR:
Walking Out on 60 Minutes: A Time-Honored Tradition  —  This past weekend, 60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon was interviewing “Curve Ball,” the notorious Iraq defector whose fabrications about his country's supposed “weapons of mass destruction” played a large part in the US decision to go to war.
Discussion: CBS News
Jennifer Mascia / New York Times:
Charlie Sheen Helps Make a Name for Ustream  —  His last job was on a network sitcom that drew 15 million viewers a week.  Now Charlie Sheen, fallen television star, delivers nonsensical, expletive-laced rants before an audience of roughly three million on a live video-streaming Web site called Ustream …
Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Google's Blogger Is About to Get an Overhaul  —  Blogger, the 11-year-old blog publishing service acquired by Google in 2003, has begun teasing a complete revamp of its blogging platform.  —  Blogger is one of the world's top 10 biggest websites, far larger than WordPress.com, Tumblr or Posterous.
Deadline.com:
AMC Entertainment Trying Again With IPO  —  This will be the second try at going public for the national theater chain, which withdrew a filing back in the fall of 2008.  The updated effort involves raising $450 million by offering common stock to be used to pay off debt, Reuters says.
Jxpaton / Digital First:
I Promised - You Delivered - The Checks Are Cut  —  Take a bow - you did it!  —  Our goal was to hit $40M in profit in 2010.  Well you did better than that - you hit more than $41M.  Not bad for a bankrupt, beat up old newspaper company people had written off as dead in 2009.
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Paper erects pay wall - and traffic goes up!  —  They (including me) said it couldn't be done, but the Augusta Chronicle put up a pay wall without losing traffic.  —  In fact, page views rose a nifty 5% in the three months since the Georgia newspaper installed a metered system similar …
Discussion: Newsonomics, eMedia Vitals and Poynter
Mike Reynolds / Multichannel:
Uva To Exit Univision On April 2  —  CEO Elects Not To Renew Employment Contract, Will Seek Other Opportunities  —  Joe Uva will be leaving his position as president and CEO of Univision Communications next month.  —  Uva has told the board of directors at the top Spanish-language media company …
 
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MediaShift:
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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
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Kat Stoeffel / New York Observer:
‘New Yorker’ Writers Are ‘Brooklyn’ Writers Too!  The Self-Loathing Gentrifier and Friends Launch Borough Glossy
Discussion: bookforum.com and FishbowlNY
Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
Tablets Not Yet A Newspaper Substitute, Telegraph Finds
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Rodale's Kang To Manage Hearst Magazines' ‘Content Extensions’
Mike Shields / Adweek:
Hulu Video Gets Original
Discussion: MediaMemo
 Earlier Picks: 
Phil Rosenthal / Tower Ticker:
Tribune Co. ‘NewsFix’ in Houston: With no anchor, TV news reels
Discussion: TVSpy
Todd Wasserman / Mashable!:
Barry Diller: Newsbeast Merger Might Not Work
Discussion: CNET News
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Virginia is for (news) lovers: How a Charlottesville newspaper and non-profit make their relationship work
Simon Dumenco / AdAge:
A Month With The Daily — Is It Actually Worth Paying for?
Poynter:
Carr, Stelter answer questions about media, New York Times at SXSW “Page One” documentary screening
Sebnem Arsu / New York Times:
In Turkey, Thousands Protest a Crackdown on Press Freedom
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Google to Help Broker Video Ads
Discussion: AdExchanger.com