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4:40 AM ET, August 10, 2011

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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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Bloomberg:
News Corp.'s James Murdoch to Explain Story Holes  —  James Murdoch's testimony last month to U.K. lawmakers about phone hacking by News Corp. (NWS) journalists produced responses that he'd been mistaken, misled or just lied.  This week he's supposed to explain which of those it was, if any.
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Jeremy W. Peters / Media Decoder:
News Corp.'s Independent Directors Have Strong Ties to Murdoch
Discussion: Company Town, Poynter, CJR and Guardian
Ian Burrell / The Independent:
‘NOTW’ staff offered lucrative severance pay
Discussion: Press Gazette and Adweek
Jim Romenesko / Poynter:
Randall Lane returns to Forbes as editor  —  Romenesko Misc.  —  Randall Lane, 43, worked at Forbes in a variety of positions from 1991 to 1997.  As editor, he'll be responsible for editorial content development and “will also be charged with developing fresh ideas and recruiting new voices and writing talent,” says a release.
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
Melanie Sill / Online Journalism Review:
Duke University's new Reporter's Lab for investigative tools  —  By Melanie Sill: When Sarah Cohen looks back at the exhaustive work she and other Washington Post journalists poured into a Pulitzer-winning investigation on child deaths, she sees not just accomplishment but opportunity …
Discussion: Future of Journalism
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The “situational stylebook”: AP creates a reference guide for the upcoming Sept. 11 anniversary  —  This September will mark the ten-year anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks.  It's an occasion that will be commemorated, both on the day itself and, in many cases, in the weeks leading up to it …
Discussion: Future of Journalism
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 …
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Abundance of News, but Mixed Sales, for News Magazines  —  The first six months of 2011 brought the kind of news explosion that can be a boon for major news organizations: the Arab Spring, nuclear catastrophe in Japan, a royal wedding and the killing of Osama bin Laden.
Adweek:
The Trouble With Back-Ends CMS woes: Why publishers can't publish on the Web By Erin Griffith  —  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 …
Nicholas Carlson / The Business Insider:
AOL CEO Says The Ad Side Of The Company Doesn't Have Enough “Operational Scale”  —  AOL just reported its Q2 earnings.  —  The display advertising sales numbers were OK.  —  People worried they would be much worse because a couple weeks ago, CEO Tim Armstrong fired AOL's ad sales boss …
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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
AOL Earnings: Shares Plummet Despite Ad Revenue Gains
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
Noah Davis / The Business Insider:
Ex-HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman Is Revolutionizing The Publishing Industry.  Again.  —  What's the difference between being the CEO of the largest publishing house in the world and the CEO of a startup with $15 million in funding?  —  Ownership.  And pressure.
 
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Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword:
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Reuters:
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