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2:55 AM ET, August 5, 2011

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Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Google News gets a new human touch, launching publisher-curated Editors' Picks as a standing section  —  When Google News launched in 2002, it did so with some declarations: “This page was generated entirely by computer algorithms without human editors.”  And: “No humans were harmed or even used in the creation of this page.”
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Yogita Mehta / The Official Google Blog:
Google News highlights unique content with Editors' Picks  —  (Cross-posted on the Google News Blog)  —  News organizations tell stories online in ways that bring together the best of traditional and digital journalism, whether that involves long-form investigative features …
Discussion: Search Engine Land and WebProNews
Julie Moos / Poynter:
Media stocks drop more than the market as a whole  —  Stocks fell across the board Thursday in the worst day of trading since 2008.  The drop was fueled by a global credit crisis and a weak U.S. economic recovery, with the expectation that Friday's jobs report will add to the worries.
Discussion: MarketBeat and Fox News
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Daily Beast-Newsweek Traffic Is Down 24 Percent From Last Year  —  Barry Diller is sanguine about the future of the merged Newsweek/Daily Beast news entity, even though he expects it to lose $50 million before crossing over into the black.  “In a year, year-and-a-half or so …
Discussion: The New York Observer
American Journalism Review:
A Welcome Change  —  After years of decline, the audience for network news jumps upward.  Thurs.  August 4, 2011 By Deborah Potter
Discussion: Poynter
John Higginson / Metro.co.uk:
Guardian journalist: Phone hacking gave me a ‘thrill’  —  A Guardian executive admitted hacking telephone messages - and getting a ‘voyeuristic thrill’ from it.  —  Assistant editor David Leigh said he intercepted voicemails in an article written in December 2006 in order to investigate …
Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
DirecTV CEO downplays interest in Hulu  —  One more potential Hulu acquirer has thrown its hat in the ring, with DirecTV admitting it has joined Apple, Yahoo, Google, Verizon, AT&T and Amazon in taking a look at the online video site's financials.  But while it's an interesting opportunity …
Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer:
The New York Observer Will Switch From Tabloid to Broadsheet  —  Beginning August 24, The New York Observer will be printed in a mini-broadsheet format, Observer Media Group president Christopher Barnes announced today.  —  The mini-broadsheet is a shorter, narrower version of the traditional broadsheet …
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
9 reasons newspapers are suddenly asking print subscribers to pay for full Web access  —  After years of searching for a workable paid digital content model, a wave of small and mid-sized newspapers have all hit on the same solution: Ask print subscribers to pay just a little more to get full website access.
Gail Shister / TVNewser:
Rick Sanchez on Cable News: 'It's an ugly, nasty, vitriolic business'  —  CNN exile Rick Sanchez is not a big fan of cable news.  —  “It's an ugly, nasty, vitriolic business,” Sanchez, 53, says from his home in Atlanta.  “Every day, it's a knife fight in an alley, and you don't walk away …
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The newsonomics of ARPU  —  Editor's Note: Each week, Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of news for the Lab.  —  We've seen lots of consternation over numbers recently.
Bloomberg:
Murdoch's Cleanup Effort Draws Criticism  —  News Corp. (NWSA)'s Rupert Murdoch told British lawmakers he's the “best person” to clean up the company after a phone-hacking scandal.  Fifteen days later, it isn't clear how he'll accomplish that.  —  The committee the New York-based media company set …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Warner Bros. Pulls Back the Curtain on Flixster Collections, Its Ambitious Digital Video Bet  —  Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes spent a lot of yesterday's earnings call discussing the company's future in digital video.  Here's one of his focal points: Flixster Collections …
Discussion: VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb and Mashable!
 
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Keach Hagey / On Media's Blog:
Fox Business launches series on Media Matters
Discussion: FoxBusiness.com and Big Journalism
Kfury / fox @ fury:
Twitter is the new soundbyte, and that's not good.
Jerry Barmash / FishbowlNY:
Former Longtime WNBC Anchor Carol Jenkins Says TV News Industry Going ‘Right Direction’ for Women, Blacks
Discussion: womensmediacenter.com and TVSpy
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Digitas Jordan Bitterman: ROI for Online Video Advertising is Double Television's
Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
Meltwater Buys Ice Rocket For Pro Social Monitoring
Discussion: TechCrunch and NetNewsCheck Latest
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
The Atlantic Launches a Video Aggregator With a Twist
 Earlier Picks: 
Micheal Miner / News & Features, Chicago Reader:
To feed or not to feed the digital beast
Discussion: Poynter
Pentagram:
Inside The New York Times Building
Discussion: PSFK and Poynter
Greg Marx / CJR:
The NY Times's New Top Editor in D.C.
Nieman Journalism Lab:
Transparency, iteration, standards: Knight-Mozilla's learning lab offers journalism lessons of open source