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5:45 AM ET, July 22, 2011

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Wall Street Journal:
Justice Department Prepares Subpoenas in News Corp. Inquiry  —  The U.S. Justice Department is preparing subpoenas as part of preliminary investigations into News Corp. relating to alleged foreign bribery and alleged hacking of voicemail of Sept. 11 victims, according to a government official.
Discussion: The Slog and Gawker
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Guardian:   James Murdoch: groomed for the top but now looking down the barrel
Reuters:
James Murdoch denies misleading panel
Discussion: Adweek
Business Week:
Will the Scandal Tame Murdoch?
Susan Candiotti / CNN:   9/11 families to meet with attorney general over phone hacking
Gautam Naik / Wall Street Journal:
Scotland Yard Stint Lands Former Editor in Spotlight
Discussion: Washington Post
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
NYT's Nisenholtz: 'We're Not Naive About Google'  —  A revealing bit of conversation at the end of the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) earnings call between an analyst, digital head Martin Nisenholtz and CEO Janet Robinson about Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and the About.com response to the change in search algorithms that hit About, among others.
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The New York Times Company:
The New York Times Company Reports 2011 Second-Quarter Results
Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:   New York Times Digital Transition: Worth $34 million (annually) and counting
David Kaplan / paidContent:
NYTCo Swings To Loss; Digital Rises Double Digits, About Continues To Fall
Keach Hagey / On Media's Blog:
David Leonhardt next NYT Washington bureau chief?  —  The New York Times newsrooms in Washington and New York have been buzzing with the rumor that David Leonhardt will soon be named the paper's next Washington bureau chief.  —  Filling the slot is Executive Editor Jill Abramson's …
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Media News
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Lornet Turnbull / Seattle Times:
State DOL cancels driver's license of ex-reporter in country illegally  —  The state of Washington has canceled the driver's license of a journalist who, in a New York Times Magazine article last month, revealed that for 14 years he kept a secret from his U.S. employers: He is an illegal immigrant.
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Demand Media's Lawyers Go After Critical Blog as Stock Sags  —  There's something perversely flattering about having an entire website devoted to your supposed terribleness.  But Demand Media is evidently not enjoying the attention from Demand Studios Sucks, a blog maintained by refugees …
Discussion: Demand Studios Sucks
Michael Miner / News & Features, Chicago Reader:
The elusive definition of “journalist”  —  News used to be dispensed by an identifiable priesthood.  Welcome to the reformation.  —  What the hell is a journalist anyway, and why should we need to define one?  A journalist, says one of my daughters, making me swallow hard, is someone you can believe is trying to tell you the truth.
Lois Beckett / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Instapaper, Read It Later, Byliner: Platform founders on the pageview economics of time-shifted reading  —  When Byliner.com launched last month, there was plenty of enthusiasm about their new “Pandora of narrative non-fiction” from fans of long-form journalism.
Discussion: Future of Journalism
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
News orgs: Post to Facebook at noon for peak engagement  —  After analyzing the keys to engagement on journalists' Facebook pages, the social network has analyzed the number of comments and likes on sampled news organization pages to determine best practices for engaging with readers.
Discussion: Facebook
Maria Bustillos / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Marshall McLuhan, Superstar  —  Today would have been Marshall McLuhan's 100th birthday.  Continuing our informal McLuhan Week at the Lab, we present this essay by Maria Bustillos on McLuhan's unique status as a media theorist who was also a media star. … The public intellectual was invented in the mid-20th century.
Ian Sherr / Wall Street Journal:
Apple Explores Hulu Bid  —  Apple Inc. is in the early stages of examining Hulu LLC, a video-streaming pioneer that is being considered for sale by its owners.  —  Apple, which sits on $76.2 billion in cash and investments, is in the preliminary stages of looking at the site …
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Condé Nast And Adobe Try To Get A Handle On Digital Mag Metrics  —  While it may be exciting for advertisers to try out out an interactive ad in a digital magazine, at the end of the day, they just care about the numbers.  With that in mind, Condé Nast and its digital magazine partner Adobe …
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Lucia Moses / Adweek:   Hearst, Bonnier Cave on MediaVest Demand for Tablet Data
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Is the internet making journalism better or worse?  Yes  —  For the past several days, The Economist has been hosting a debate between journalism professor Jay Rosen and digital skeptic and author Nicholas Carr, as part of an ongoing series about the future of media.
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The newsonomics of U.S. media concentration  —  The rise and potential fall of Rupert Murdoch is a hell of a story.  It is, though, closer to the Guardian's Simon Jenkins' description Tuesday, “not a Berlin Wall moment, just daft hysteria.”  Facing only the meager competition of the slow …
 
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
‘The Daily’ Launches A New Version; Hopes For Assist From Spotify
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:
Thomson Reuters markets chief to leave
Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:
News Corp.'s The Sun Fires Editor Over Phone-Hacking Connections
Discussion: Guardian and Adweek
Bloomberg:
Murdoch Gets Confidence Vote From Saudi Prince
David Kaplan / paidContent:
AP Archive To Be Used As Basis For Programming Series
Discussion: rbr.com
American Journalism Review:
The Incredible Shrinking Rupert
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Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:
Tricks of the Trade With The Atlantic's Senior Editor Megan McArdle
Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
IAC's Vimeo Claims 50 Million Unique Users Worldwide, Cites Big Growth in Europe
Discussion: Media Buyer Planner, Thanks:beet_tv
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
New UK newspaper reportedly to be based on successful Daily Mail website
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Report: Online Video Will Replace Pay TV in 4.5 Million Homes by Year-End