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7:25 PM ET, August 9, 2011

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Steve Myers / Poynter:
U.K. photographer explains how she captured dramatic photo during riots  —  All the major newspapers in the U.K. published a dramatic photo of a woman jumping from a burning building during the riots that have terrorized the country, captured by Amy Weston of the photo agency WENN.
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Guardian:
London riots: Sky, ITN and CNN reporters attacked  —  Broadcasters' vans smashed in Croydon and Sky News reporter Mark Stone forced to flee in Clapham disturbance  —  Journalists and photographers came under attack on Monday as London faced its third consecutive day of violent riots in the capital.
Erin Griffith / Adweek:
The Trouble With Back-Ends  —  No publication has a better story about back-end chaos than BusinessWeek.  —  Before it was acquired by Bloomberg LP, the publication sank a shocking $20 million into the back-end development of Business Exchange, a professional social networking site …
Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
News Corp.'s Independent Directors Have Strong Ties to Murdoch  —  When the News Corporation board convenes on the 20th Century Fox Studios lot Tuesday for its first meeting since a phone hacking scandal overseas plunged the company into turmoil, the participants will include many people with deep and personal ties to Rupert Murdoch.
Discussion: Poynter, Guardian, Adweek and Mixed Media
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Ian Burrell / The Independent:
‘NOTW’ staff offered lucrative severance pay
Discussion: Press Gazette and Adweek
Mark Milian / CNN:
Newspaper giant Tribune Co. developing tablet device  —  (CNN) — Hoping to take a small slice from Apple's big pie, newspaper publishers are developing tablet computers of their own.  —  The Tribune Co., one of the largest U.S. news enterprises, is working on a touchscreen tablet that it plans …
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Wall Street's Demand for Demand Media Falls Off  —  After the markets close tomorrow, Demand Media will report its second-quarter earnings.  —  Wall Street is expecting a solid performance from the Santa Monica, Calif.-based online content maker compared to last year.
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
Demand Media Buys IndieClick, RSS Graffiti; Expands Google Ad Deal
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
AOL Earnings: Shares Plummet Despite Ad Revenue Gains  —  The addition of the Huffington Post and other acquisitions allowed AOL chairman Tim Armstrong to tell Wall Street what it has long waited to hear: the internet company's global advertising revenues grew in the second quarter, the first time that's happened since 2008.
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Nicholas Carlson / The Business Insider:   AOL CEO Says The Ad Side Of The Company Doesn't Have Enough “Operational Scale”
Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
Phone-hacking scoopster Nick Davies may join Guardian's planned U.S. operation  —  When not tirelessly chronicling the ongoing British phone-hacking saga, The Guardian has been lining up journalists to staff the U.S.-based website that the U.K. broadsheet plans to have up and running sometime this fall.
Alison Kitchens / American Journalism Review:
On the Beet  —  Beet.TV makes its mark with video interviews of media and technology executives.  Tues., Aug. 9, 2011  —  Alison Kitchens (akitchens@ajr.umd.edu) is an AJR editorial assistant.  —  If your job has something to do with digital media, chances are Andy Plesser is looking for you.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:
Host your own crowdsourced investigation with the Help Me Investigate plugin  —  When we open-sourced the code for Help Me Investigate the plan was to move from a single site to a decentralised, networked structure.  Now, thanks to Andy Dickinson, it has become even easier for anyone to host their own journalism crowdsourcing platform.
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Brooklyn's Latest Local News Site Aims For Gritty, Not Trendy  —  The world isn't lacking for news about Brooklyn's artisanal pickles, flea markets and beekeeping, but a new site, Brooklyn Bureau, aims to focus on the less hip side of New York City's largest borough.
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
New Stats: Book Publishing Is Growing; E-Book Revs and Sales Up Over 1000%  —  One positive story in a week of terrible economic news: BookStats, a new annual statistical survey of raw sales revenue and unit data provided by nearly 2,000 publishers that is being released today …
Discussion: Techland and GalleyCat
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Armed With $7M In New Funding, Movieclips Lands Deal With YouTube To Be The Vevo Of Film Clips  —  We're big fans of online movie clips site Movieclips.com, which launched in 2009 as a search engine with over 20,000 different clips from thousands of titles from the libraries of 20th Century Fox …
D.M. Levine / Adweek:
Fast Chat: CNN President Ken Jautz  —  Since taking over as president of U.S. operations at CNN last September, Ken Jautz has been struggling to jazz-up what had become a snoozing network—at least by the clamorous standards of the cable news universe—with high-profile hires like Erin Burnett …
Discussion: TVNewser and Inside Cable News
 
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