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3:05 PM ET, July 19, 2011

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Phone hacking: Rupert Murdoch ‘humbled’ by MPs' probe — Rupert and James Murdoch are likely to be asked what took place at the News of the World — Rupert Murdoch has said his appearance before MPs to answer questions about phone hacking is the “most humble day of his life”.

Bloomberg:

News Corp. Said to Consider Chase Carey as CEO — News Corp. is considering elevating Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey to chief executive officer to succeed Rupert Murdoch, people with knowledge of the situation said. — A decision hasn't been made and a move depends in part …

Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:

The Statement The Murdochs Wanted To Make Before The MPs Said No — Before MPs kicked off their phone hacking questions for James and Rupert Murdoch today, James asked John Whittingdale, the chair of the Commons Committee on Culture, Media and Sport, if he could read out a statement—another apology.

Discussion: Guardian, http://www.Stinkyjournalism …, On Media's Blog, Editors Weblog, Online NewsHour and BBC

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Murdoch & Son Visit Parliament, Return With a Big Helping Of Humble (and Shaving Cream) Pie — This morning, News Corp. CEO and majordomo Rupert Murdoch, his son James (who is also a top company exec) — as well as former employee and full-time lightning rod Rebekah Brooks …

Discussion: Guardian, VentureBeat, The Wire, Gawker, Forbes.com, The New York Observer, On Media's Blog, The Snitch, mediabistro.com, TVNewser, The New York Observer and Journalism.co.uk

Foster Kamer / The New York Observer:

Video: Murdoch Attacked! Deng Fights Back! (Updated, With Slow-Motion Replay) — Rupert Murdoch was just attacked during the big News Corp hacking hearing in the British Parliament. Via Business Insider, this is objectively insane and awesome: — Update: Via Jezebel's Whitney Jefferson, the Gif you've all been waiting for:

Discussion: blogs.telegraph.co.uk, @jonniemarbles, The Huffington Post, Guardian, Adweek and mUmBRELLA

Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:

Rupert Murdoch has board backing — (Reuters) - News Corp independent directors are fully behind Rupert Murdoch, a board member told Reuters on Monday, as his iron grip on his vast media empire came under question because of the hacking scandal that already has consumed his London newspaper company.

Discussion: New York Magazine, paidContent, NetNewsCheck Latest and Gawker

Burgess Everett / On Media's Blog:

Piers Morgan takes on tabloid scandal — Former News of the World editor Piers Morgan finally, if briefly, confronted the News of the World phone-hacking scandal on Monday night after coming under pressure for avoiding coverage of the story while the rest of CNN went into overdrive.

Discussion: Mediaite, The Daily Beast, The Book Bench, Forbes.com, TVNewser, GalleyCat, Adweek, AdAge and ThinkProgress

Legalweek:

Harbottle defends Hackgate position; Grabiner to lead News Corp clean-up — Author: Simon Petersen

Discussion: The Slog

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
How News Corp. Will Change After the Hacking Scandal

Discussion: TVNewser, rbr.com, Guardian, The New York Observer, Adweek, On Media's Blog, Forbes.com, Mediaite, WWD Media Headlines, paidContent:UK, The Awl, Capital New York, AllThingsD, Fact and Comment, Wall Street Journal and Broadcasting & Cable

Felix Salmon:
Could News Corp end up in play?

Discussion: The Wire and FT Alphaville

Nick Robinson / BBC: From inside the Murdoch hearing

Reuters: Special report: Rupert Murdoch, a hands-on newspaperman

Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Can Hands-on Boss Rupert Murdoch Plausibly Deny Knowledge of Hacking at the News of the World?

Discussion: Poynter, Adweek, AllThingsD, MediaFile and News Desk

Bloomberg:
Murdoch Struggles for Control as Scandal Grows

Discussion: New York Times, Guardian, Adweek, Mixed Media, The Daily Dish, The Huffington Post, The Wire, Felix Salmon, ABC News, Forbes.com, On Media's Blog, The Wrap and Crikey

New York Times:
Murdoch Aides Long Tried to Blunt Scandal Over Hacking

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Press Gazette, Guardian, The New York Observer, msnbc.com, The Big Picture, The Nation, Salon, Tom Watson, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, American Journalism Review and Newsweek

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:
Updated: The Sun and News International sites hacked, Lulzsec claims responsibility

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

With Float, Scribd Hopes To Become The Netflix Of Reading — It's a big day for online document sharing and social reading site Scribd. Today at Fortune's Brianstorm conference, CEO Trip Adler will be revealing a major initiate that introduces a suite of new products and an entirely new brand: meet Float.

Discussion: VentureBeat, GigaOM, Fast Company, App Advice, Adweek, Softpedia News, CNET News, Epicenter, TUAW, ReadWriteWeb and TeleRead, Thanks:beet_tv

Verne G. Kopytoff / New York Times:

Scribd Creates a Paid News Site — Relatively few people are willing to pay for an online newspaper or magazine. But what if they could pay a monthly fee for a vast library of news, like Netflix's subscription service for movies? — Scribd, a Web site that lets users share reports …

Discussion: paidContent and AllThingsD, more at Techmeme »

Andy Rutledge: News Redux — Digital news is broken. Actually, news itself is broken.

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Time Magazine Rolls Out Print/Digital Subscriptions — And Puts Up Another Web Pay Wall — Time magazine is making it easier for readers to subscribe to its digital and print editions. And it is making it harder for non-subscribers to read the magazine on the Web.

Discussion: VentureBeat, Poynter, FishbowlNY and paidContent, more at Techmeme »

Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg:

Hulu Owners Offer 5-Year Show Extension — Hulu LLC, the online video service seeking bids, plans to offer suitors five years of access to shows from its media-company owners, including two years of exclusivity, two people with knowledge of the situation said.

Discussion: Adweek, Bloomberg, Online Video News and The Business Insider

Nikki Finke / Deadline.com:

Deadline Hollywood Game Launches On Facebook This Summer: News Affects Play — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — NIKKI FINKE'S DEADLINE.COM, PARAMOUNT DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT, AND LIQUID ENTERTAINMENT SET SUMMER 2011 RELEASE FOR ‘DEADLINE HOLLYWOOD GAME’ ON FACEBOOK

Discussion: LA Observed and Movieline

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

News orgs publish ebooks to capitalize on trending news, archived content — As more people buy e-readers and download books through digital stores, some news organizations are finding they can capitalize on their expertise and archives of information by quickly publishing e-books related to big stories.

Discussion: Editors Weblog

Jim Romenesko / Poynter:

WP hires three bloggers to work with Ezra Klein — They are Suzy Khimm, who leaves Mother Jones; Sarah Kliff, formerly of Politico; and Brad Plumer, a New Republic associate editor. The Post memo is after the jump. — The Financial staff is thrilled to announce that we've hired three talented bloggers to work with Ezra Klein.

Discussion: FishbowlDC

Sophie Roell / The Browser:

Jay Rosen on Journalism in the Internet Age — In a break from our usual practice of focusing on books, we asked the journalism analyst and veteran blogger to recommend five articles illustrating the upheavals of the news business — I know that as journalists we have to adapt rapidly …