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7:20 AM ET, September 4, 2011

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
CrunchFund?  Unethical Ventures?  Pig Pile Partners?  No Matter What You Call It, It's Business as Usual in Silicon Valley.  —  Of course I have something to say about the news yesterday that AOL would be a key investor in a new early-stage venture fund being started by TechCrunch's …
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
But is it journalism?  (Damnit)  —  Four incidents of late challenge the very notion of journalism.  Michael Arrington, Henry Blodget, Wikileaks, and TV's Irene coverage each in their own way raise the question: What is journalism?  And does it matter?  —  When Michael Arrington announced …
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Is journalism as we know it becoming obsolete?  —  There have been plenty of obituaries written for the newspaper business, most of which have a kernel of truth to them — but is journalism as we know it at risk as well?  Dave Winer, a programming guru and visiting scholar at the New York University school of journalism, says it is.
Business Insider:
AOL Left Arianna Huffington In The Dark About Arrington's Controversial VC Fund
The Atlantic Online:
Social Media's Slow Slog Into the Ivory Towers of Academia  —  Underpinning a disdain for social media in higher education is the assumption that incoming students have an inherent aptitude for new technologies  —  “If you took a soldier from a thousand years ago and put them on a battlefield …
Alex Sherman / Bloomberg:
Dish Said to Plan Blockbuster Rival to Netflix  —  Dish Network Corp. (DISH), the second largest U.S. satellite-TV provider, will introduce a Blockbuster streaming-movie service to compete with Netflix Inc. (NFLX) next month, according to a person with direct knowledge of the plans.
Peter Preston / Guardian:
Newspaper magazines still matter; they deliver women readers  —  As the Observer magazine reaches 45, there's life - and money - in supplements in the digital age  —  The actual birthday - 45 years of the Observer Magazine - falls on Tuesday (though a “Not to be Sold Separately” exhibition celebrated it weeks ago).
Erik Wemple:
Jack Shafer on ‘reproducible’ journalism  —  On this “web extra” of Howard Kurtz's CNN show, “Reliable Sources,” Jack Shafer calls the host “a slow-moving target that bleeds profusely when hit.”  —  That was a joke, of course, but the session yields a couple of quotable moments.
Discussion: FishbowlDC
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Introducing Journo Ipsum, for all your nonsense-about-the-future-of- news textual needs  —  Anyone who's spent much time hanging around the publishing or design worlds knows about lorem ipsum, the classic Latin placeholder text used to dummy up prose filler in a layout.
James Ball / Guardian:
Why I felt I had to turn my back on WikiLeaks  —  Former staffer tells how dismay mounted during his three months with the whistleblowing group  —  I joined WikiLeaks last November as a staffer for a three-month stint.  Culture shock came just a few days in, when Julian Assange gathered core staff …
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Social media editor role expands to include fighting misinformation during breaking news  —  The buzzwords for social media editors at news outlets are conversation, curation and collaboration.  But when using Twitter and its ilk to collect and disseminate news in real-time, another word is becoming just as important: corroboration.
Discussion: Future of Journalism
Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:
Phone hacking: 34-year-old man arrested  —  Unnamed man arrested by officers from the Met police's Operation Weeting team in connection with phone hacking and perverting the course of justice  —  Today's arrest is the 15th by the Met police's Operation Weeting phone hacking investigation
Discussion: Guardian and Press Gazette
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James Cusick / The Independent:   Gordon Brown issues challenge over Sunday Times recordings
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Online video finally chipping away at broadcast TV  —  A quarter of people in countries with access to high-speed broadband are streaming video to their TV, although more than 80 percent still watch broadcast television as well.  But that's slowly beginning to change: According to survey data …
Discussion: Future of Journalism
Amy Chozick / Wall Street Journal:
Hollywood's TV Factory  —  A surprising number of TV's most popular shows, from CBS's ‘The Big Bang Theory’ to NBC's ‘The Voice,’ come from one source.  Backstage at the busiest studio in America.  —  “Casablanca” was shot at the Warner Bros. studio lot here, as were “Rebel Without a Cause” and “Million Dollar Baby.”
Tim Carmody / Epicenter:
How the Starz-Netflix Divorce Will Remake Video  —  Illustration photoshopped by Tim Carmody  —  The dissolution of the Netflix-Starz relationship is a meaningful loss to both companies as well as their customers.  Without Starz's participation as an early partner and its access to popular brand …
Discussion: The Next Web and Between the Lines Blog, Thanks:tcarmody
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