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3:13 AM ET, August 1, 2011

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KABC-TV:
ABC7 reporter Leanne Suter struck by BB gun fire in Fontana  —  FONTANA, Calif. (KABC) — ABC7 Eyewitness News reporter Leanne Suter was injured by a pellet fired from a BB gun while covering a story in Fontana on Saturday.  —  Suter was struck in the hand.  She was taken to a hospital for treatment and will be OK.
Frank Rich / New York Magazine:
Murdoch Hacked Us Too  —  The News Corp. scandal already exposed just how thoroughly the company had corrupted Britain.  Now it's time to look on this side of the pond.  —  When I was offered a job as a film critic for the New York Post in 1975, it had just been labeled “a terrible newspaper” …
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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Old allegations of spying could haunt News Corp. in U.S.  —  Even though lawsuits have been settled, that wouldn't prevent the government from revisiting such allegations in investigations of possible phone hacking in America.  —  As British lawmakers and Scotland Yard investigate allegations …
Erik Wemple:
Daily Caller cheap-shots the New York Times  —  The Daily Caller has just published a story showing how far it'll reach to allege liberal media bias.  The grabby headline: “New York Times reporter advises White House media staff on Twitter.”  —  Aha, collusion!  —  Now for the evidence.
Discussion: The Caucus and The Daily Caller
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
How Chartbeat wants to help save the media industry  —  Newspapers and magazines used to publish content into a kind of void: they knew how many people subscribed, but that was about it — everything else was guesswork based on consumer surveys and other mumbo-jumbo.
Discussion: chartbeat, Thanks:mathewi
Rachel Sklar / Mediaite:
@BarackObama's Lost Followers: A Tempest In A Twitter Teapot  —  Yesterday, President Barack Obama concluded his address to the nation by urging Americans to contact their representatives and urge action on a debt ceiling resolution.  “If you want to see a bipartisan compromise …
Michelle Minkoff:
What's it like looking for a programmer-journalist job?  —  I've spent a lot of time thinking in the last week, as I worked through the final steps of an interview process with the Associated Press.  The job hunt has been a long one, and there are some points that I think are worth considering.
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Judge: NYT reporter need not identify sources  —  A New York Times reporter need not testify in court about who gave him details on a top-secret CIA program targeting Iran, a federal judge has ruled.  —  In May, federal prosecutors subpoenaed Times reporter James Risen to testify …
Discussion: Salon and Future of Journalism
John Plunkett / Guardian:
BBC faces new 24-hour news strike on Monday  —  Stoppage over redundancies will be followed by ‘indefinite’ NUJ work to rule  —  The BBC is facing another day of disruption to its news programmes on Monday with many of its journalists due to go on a 24-hour strike before beginning an “indefinite” work to rule.
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Media groups eye reporters' Twitter fans  —  Twitter and other social media sites are creating new tensions in traditional newsrooms as broadcasters and newspapers grapple with individual reporters' attempts to use the web to create a personal brand.  —  The question of who owns …
Arthur S. Brisbane / New York Times:
Why Redacting E-Mails Is a Bad Idea  —  TWO weeks ago, I raised questions about a New York Times article that warned of a bubble or Ponzi scheme in the development of shale gas energy.  Today I want to look closely at the front page shale gas article that appeared one day later …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
David Minthorn is the grammar and style expert for the Associated Press  —  In its modern, digital forms, writing has become something like an untended garden.  It's overgrown with text-speak and crawling with invasive species like tweets and dashed-off e-mails.  OMG, it's a mess.
 
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