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3:15 PM ET, July 11, 2011

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Simon Dumenco / AdAge:
Life After Rupert's Reign: What Will Happen in a Post-Murdoch World?  —  With the Closure of the News of the World, the Rule of One of the Most Powerful Media Moguls of All Time Has Officially Begun to Wind Down  —  With Sunday's closure of News Corp.'s 168-year-old News of the World …
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Paul Mason / BBC:
Murdoch: the network defeats the hierarchy  —  Rupert Murdoch has dispensed power, terrorized politicians and shaped politics  —  The Murdoch empire fractured, a Conservative prime minister attracting bets on his resignation, the Metropolitan Police on the edge of yet another existential crisis …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
British tabloid tactics are rampant in American journalism, too  —  It takes some doing to get an entire country up in arms about media misconduct, but News of the World rose to the occasion.  —  By hacking into the phones of terror victims and a missing 13-year-old girl later found murdered …
Discussion: FishbowlDC and CJR
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
News Corp. Shareholders in Class Action Over Hacking  —  Rupert Murdoch standing by embattled News International CEO Rebekah Brooks.  Image by AFP/Getty Images via @daylife  —  As if Rupert Murdoch didn't already have enough of a legal/financial/public relational disaster on his hands …
Nick Davies / Guardian:
Charles and Camilla warned over hacking  —  Palace confirms police recently approached couple to warn them they were likely targets of News of the World private investigator  —  Police have warned Buckingham Palace that they have found evidence that the Prince of Wales and the Duchess …
Discussion: BBC, Adweek and The Huffington Post
David Carr / New York Times:
A Tabloid Shame, Exposed by Earnest Rivals  —  The phone-hacking scandal that is mushrooming in Britain, with arrests, skullduggery and influence peddling, would be a delicious story for The News of the World if it were not about the newspaper itself.  Instead, the hunter became the hunted …
The Independent:
I'm a hacking victim too, Gordon Brown to announce
Discussion: Guardian
BBC:
Murdoch says chief Rebekah Brooks is his first priority
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Huffington Post suspends writer, apologizes for over-aggregated post  —  The Huffington Post has suspended Amy Lee, who wrote a thorough summary of an Ad Age post that Simon Dumenco complained was unethical and brought just 57 page views to AdAge.com, and apologized for the …
Discussion: LA Observed and Editors Weblog
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Simon Dumenco / AdAge:
What It's Like to Get Used and Abused by The Huffington Post  —  The Blog Queen Defends Her Aggregation Practices by Saying She Drives Traffic.  Oh, Really?  —  One of the great and pressing questions of the post-blog age is: What constitutes unfair — unethical — aggregation?
Kai Nagata:
Why I quit my job:  —  Until Thursday, I was CTV's Quebec City Bureau Chief, based at the National Assembly, mostly covering politics.  It's a fascinating beat - the most interesting provincial legislature in Canada, and the stories coming out of there lately have been huge.
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Netflix Isn't Kicking Tires at Hulu  —  The sale of video site Hulu LLC is entering its next phase.  —  Initial presentations to potential suitors mostly wrapped up last week, according to people familiar with the matter.  Next, interested bidders will comb through the business in greater detail …
Chris Rovzar / New York Magazine:
Newsweek.com Will Cease to Exist on July 19  —  Right now if you go to newsweek.com, you'll see a basic magazine website, updated with content from the print version of the mag and a top navigation bar that directs you to content on its sister site, dailybeast.com.
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
An iPad App for Cosmo Guys  —  Cosmopolitan offers the answers to a lot of crucial questions.  Should you get back with your ex?  How do you make your pony tail sexy?  Are those the right sunglasses for summer?  —  But one area the magazine has not delved into much is giving advice …
Discussion: Adweek and eMedia Vitals
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
AOL's HuffPost Enters Crowded Online Arena With HuffPost Celebrity Site  —  The Huffington Post Media Group, AOL's fast-moving content unit, is launching a celebrity site called HuffPost Celebrity today, as well as another called HuffPost Culture.  —  HuffPost Celebrity …
Discussion: The Wire and Adweek
Tanzina Vega / Media Decoder:
Black News in New Focus  —  NBC News and Interactive One, a network of Web sites aimed at African-Americans, plan to announce a partnership on Monday that will combine the editorial and sales resources of both properties.  The partnership will focus on aligning NBC's African-American news site …
Discussion: rbr.com, Poynter and News One
Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:
Guardian Extends Its Digital Effort To E-Readers With Kindle App  —  This looks like an example of “Digital First” in action: today, the Guardian announced that it has launched a Kindle app, its first for the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) device, as it looks to extend its footprint to more wireless devices …
 
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