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12:15 AM ET, March 17, 2011

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Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
Four New York Times Journalists Are Missing in Libya  —  6:19 p.m. |  Updated The New York Times said Wednesday that four of its journalists reporting on the conflict in Libya were missing.  —  Editors said they were last in contact with the journalists, who were reporting from the northern port city …
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Julie Moos / Poynter:
2 of 4 missing New York Times journalists were kidnapped previously  —  Four journalists working for The New York Times are missing in Libya, says Executive Editor Bill Keller.  Anthony Shadid, Stephen Farrell, Tyler Hicks and Lynsey Addario were last heard from Tuesday morning.
Discussion: CNN, Guardian, The Daily Beast and J-Source
Washington Post:
Editor's Note: An apology  —  Two articles published by The Post online and in its print editions earlier this month contained substantial material that was borrowed and duplicated, without attribution, from The Arizona Republic newspaper.  —  The articles described an indictment …
Dan Sabbagh / paidContent:
The Daily Set For Europe Availability; 5,000 Subs?  —  Rupert Murdoch's iPad newspaper The Daily will be available in the UK within months, depending on when Apple's new online subscription model becomes available in this country.  —  The chief digital officer of Murdoch's News Corporation …
Discussion: The Loop
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
The Washington Post Has Achieved Perfect Fairness  —  The most noteworthy feature of the new WashingtonPost.com redesign: its opinion section (the world's worst) now features “Left-Leaning” and “Right-Leaning” tabs, so that you can comfortably segregate yourself in the opinion ghetto of your choice.
Felix Salmon:
How blogs have changed journalism  —  Benzinga's Laura Hlebasko sent me some questions about blogs and online media for a feature she's writing.  Here they are, along with my answers: … I find pretty big differences in how I write, depending on whether it's for a traditional media outlet or for the blog.
Jay Rosen:
Anatomy of a Twitter Screw-up: My Own  —  “Twitter invites casualness, yet it demands extra care.”  — Science writer Carl Zimmer.  —  Yesterday I made a serious error on Twitter.  Here is what happened.  —  TechCrunch ran this story: AOL Asks Us If We Can Tone It Down.
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
On the Media: Patch.com's Newark plan smells of conflict  —  Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington (Jason Kempin / Getty Images For IMG / March 16, 2011)  —  The AOL hyper-local news operation, now under Arianna Huffington, enters a partnership with a New Jersey mayor that doesn't seem journalistically sound.
Discussion: On Media's Blog
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Lucia Moses / Mediaweek:
Huffington Explains AOL's Odd Partnership With Newark Mayor
Discussion: Poynter
Nils Mulvad / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Collaboration, an investigative reporting network, and the development of Farmsubsidy.org  —  Editor's Note: Our sister publication Nieman Reports is out with its spring issue, which spotlights the efforts of reporters trying to uncover corruption.  We're highlighting a few entries that connect …
Discussion: Nieman Reports
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Stefan Candea / Nieman Journalism Lab:
From the ground up: The growth of independent media in Romania
Discussion: Nieman Reports
Abu Dhabi / Reuters:
News Corp aims to build own social gaming business  —  (Reuters) - Media giant News Corp aims to build its own social-gaming business as valuations of games companies, such as FarmVille maker Zynga skyrocket, its head of digital media said on Wednesday.  —  Jonathan Miller also said News Corp's …
Discussion: BloggingStocks and Techland
Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:
Off Screen, Porn Sites Trick Advertisers  —  Tactic Dupes Big Marketers, Internet Companies With Flood of Traffic From Hidden Pages  —  Dozens of big-name marketers and Internet companies have fallen victim to a scam orchestrated by a series of pornography sites.
Discussion: Fortune
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Netflix Becoming a Television Station?  —  The Wall Street Journal says that Netflix is in talks to distribute an original television series starring Kevin Spacey and directed by David Fincher.  The company seems to hope that it can follow the path blazed by HBO and AMC …
Dylan Stableford / The Wrap:
Jimmy Finkelstein Buys IWantMedia.com — A Site He Once Left at the Altar  —  Jimmy Finkelstein — The Hill owner and media investor who once courted and dumped IWantMedia.com — has acquired the media aggregation website.  —  Financial terms of the deal, first reported by Keith Kelly, were not disclosed.
Discussion: New York Post
Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:
AP's new curveball: Wire service will tell baseball stories two ways to help cost-cutting clients for road games  —  As the old saying goes in newsrooms, every night is election night on the sports desk.  The late-night deadline stress is enormous — especially when you're trying to cover 162 baseball games in a six-month season.
Discussion: Associated Press and Poynter
Stefanie Botelho / Folio:
Mag+ Will be Available to Other Publishers April 4th  —  Bonnier to launch Moving Media, a business based on print-converting system.  —  Bonnier Publishing is taking their Mag+ system to another level.  —  Bonnier, who publishes Popular Science and Field + Stream magazines, among others …
Discussion: paidContent:UK
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Newspaper ad sales hit 25-year low in 2010  —  While ad sales rose in every other mass medium in 2010, newspaper revenues plunged to the lowest point since 1985, falling to nearly half of the all-time high of $49.4 billion achieved just five years earlier.  —  Combined print and online sales …
Discussion: The Wire, Poynter and rbr.com
 
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Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Networks unlikely to pay RNC to broadcast debates
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Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
New York Observer launches tech site, loses editor
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
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