Mediagazer: Outdated US media rules to be taken off the books (Jasmin Melvin/Reuters)

10:55 PM ET, August 22, 2011

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Jasmin Melvin / Reuters:

Outdated US media rules to be taken off the books — The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is stripping 83 rules from its books as part of its reform agenda and commitment to a request from President Barack Obama earlier in the year to improve or remove any rules that were out of date, the agency said on Monday.

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Robert Peston / BBC:

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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

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Gayle MacDonald / Globe and Mail:

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Rob Lewis / Techvibes.com:

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Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Huge generation gap evident in attitudes about website comments — An Ad Age/Ipsos Observer online survey of 1,003 households shows a large generation gap in how people view website commenting. Young adults (18 to 24) are three and a half times more likely than those 55 and older to comment “often” on Web articles.

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Roy Peter Clark / Poynter:

Good tabloid writing turns crap into a front-page natural — On August 11, many news organizations covered another dramatic drop of the Dow, this one more than 500 points. So volatile was the market that week that even the roller coaster cliché seemed insufficient.

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Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:

Magazines Flex Their Apps — But Will They Make Any Money From Them? — Beach-goers this summer may have noticed that their favorite magazines — from Time to Vanity Fair to Esquire — have shiny new tablet editions. — Magazine publishers are betting heavily on the tablet platform …

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Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:

Viewers vexed by Fox's TV Everywhere pay wall — It's been just a week since Fox instituted its eight-day delay for non-authenticated viewers of its shows online, and already people are heading to BitTorrent to watch instead. According to TorrentFreak, the number of viewers downloading shows …

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Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:

Newspapers Edit Down Outlooks — Newspaper companies are resetting their advertising expectations after a discouraging first half of the year, a shift that could spur a return to more of the job cuts and other belt-tightening moves that spread through the industry in 2008 and 2009.

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Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

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Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:

Bill Keller's Goodbye Party Has a Cash Bar — The time has finally come for New York Times editor Bill Keller to pass the torch. New York Times staffers just received this invitation to his going-away party this Wednesday, at Canal Room. — “CASH BAR.”

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Emily Witt / The New York Observer:

John Locke, Self-Published Bestselling Author, Signs Distribution Deal with Simon & Schuster — Locke. — John “NOT the father of liberalism” Locke, a self-published author of a series of thriller novels starring an ex-CIA assassin named Donovan Creed, has signed a sales and distribution agreement with Simon & Schuster.

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John Koblin / WWD:

Preview: WSJ Magazine's September Issue … JOURNAL ENTRY: While Sally Singer handed over her latest cover of T: The New York Times Style Magazine to the relatively unknown jazz singer Esperanza Spalding, editor Deborah Needleman is going conventional: Rachel Weisz is WSJ's September cover girl.

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