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7:50 PM ET, July 11, 2011

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Guardian:
News International papers targeted Brown  —  Newspapers obtained information from the former prime minister's bank account, legal file and family medical records  —  Journalists from across News International repeatedly targeted the former prime minister Gordon Brown, attempting to access …
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New York Times:
British Tabloid Targeted Investigators' Phone Data  —  LONDON — Shortly after Scotland Yard began its initial criminal inquiry of phone hacking by The News of the World in 2006, five senior police investigators discovered that their own mobile phone messages had been targeted by the tabloid and had most likely been listened to.
Discussion: The Wire
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
The Twisted Logic of Murdoch's Pivot on BSkyB Deal  —  Like a school of fish making random zigzags to confuse a pursuing shark, Rupert Murdoch is resorting to wild maneuvers to preserve his media empire — and his ambitions of still greater dominance — as it attempts to outrun a scandal that threatens to consume it.
Nick Davies / Guardian:
Charles and Camilla warned over hacking
Discussion: BBC, Adweek and The Huffington Post
BBC:
Murdoch says chief Rebekah Brooks is his first priority
Discussion: Guardian
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?
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Steve Myers / Poynter:
Huffington Post suspends writer, apologizes for over-aggregated post  —  The Huffington Post has suspended Amy Lee, who wrote a summary of an Ad Age post that Simon Dumenco complained was unethical and brought just 57 page views to AdAge.com.  Huffington Post Executive Business Editor Peter Goodman apologized …
Dylan Byers / Adweek:
Is Huffington Post Throwing its Writers Under the Bus?  —  The Huffington Post is no stranger to criticism about its aggregation practices.  But when Advertising Age's Simon Dumenco called out the website over a story that borrowed heavily from a post he'd written, it reacted swiftly …
Discussion: The Wire
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.
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: Folio, MediaPost and FishbowlNY
Erik Wemple:
New York Post prostitution story gets shakier  —  The New York Post's “scoop” on Dominique Strauss Kahn's accuser is getting fishier, to the extent that's possible.  The paper appears to have had documentation challenging the reliability of its only source in a story alleging that the accuser had worked as a prostitute.
Discussion: New York Magazine
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 …
Chrys Wu / Poynter:
Beginner's guide for journalists who want to understand API documentation  —  There are three letters that have been floating around the media world for several years now: API.  Short for “application programming interface,” an API enables software programs to communicate with one another …
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
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 …
Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:
An experiment in creating an ‘Auto-Debunker’ twitter account  —  As the conspiracy theories flew around last Friday, one in particular caught fire: the idea that the News Of The World might have been closed down because it would then allow for its assets - i.e. incriminating evidence - to be destroyed.
 
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Discussion: Poynter, TVNewser, rbr.com and News One
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Discussion: AdPulp
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Discussion: The Wire
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