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8:30 AM ET, September 6, 2011

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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch As We Know It May Be Over  —  This is a post I never thought I'd have to write.  Unfortunately, I do.  And the worst part about it is that it should be Michael Arrington writing this post, not me.  —  But he can't.  —  TechCrunch is on the precipice.
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David Carr / New York Times:
A Tech Blogger Who Leaps Over the Line  —  When Michael Arrington, the editor of the popular Web site TechCrunch, told his bosses at AOL that he was forming a venture capital company to finance some of the technology start-ups that his site wrote about, they did not fire him or ask for his resignation.
Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
Naming Names on the Internet  —  PARIS — Three years ago, after the suicide of a popular actress who had been bullied via the Internet, South Korea introduced a radical policy aimed at stamping out online hate.  It required contributors to Web portals and other popular sites to use their real names, rather than pseudonyms.
Discussion: TechCrunch
Josh Halliday / paidContent:UK:
News International To Sell Wapping HQ  —  News International, publisher of the Sun and the Times, is to sell Wapping, the headquarters of its UK operations for 25 years.  —  The move was announced in an email to all News International staff on Monday lunchtime.
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Andy Coulson will not face inquiry into NI payments, confirms watchdog  —  Parliamentary standards commissioner's decision follows Electoral Commission ruling out investigation into Tory party  —  Andy Coulson will not face an official investigation into allegations that he failed …
Discussion: Journalism.co.uk
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Google Kills Its Fast Flip News Reading Experiment  —  To news executives who argue it is destructive, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has tended to highlight five things to the contrary - (1) its First Click Free scheme, (2) its Fast Flip reading tool, (3) Living Stories, (4) OnePass, and (5) …
Kenneth Rapoza / Forbes:
Tech Savvy & Richer India Turns Daily News Sites Into World Leaders  —  Subscribe to Forbes Get a Free Trial Issue … Having a few extra million people with a laptop at home has helped India's two biggest dailies build more online traffic to its news site than every U.S. paper except The New York Times.
Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
The LA Times on the role of its SEO chief - ‘the key is feedback’  —  The Los Angeles Times has reported some pretty impressive traffic figures recently - in fact LATimes.com managing editor Jimmy Orr says it is the only major newspaper website in the US to be increasing in traffic.
Kenneth Rapoza / Forbes:
In Brazil, Arianna Huffington Says Social Media Good For Journalism  —  Subscribe to Forbes Get a Free Trial Issue … News organizations might abhor sites like the The Huffington Post or The Drudge Report, but the First Lady of online news, Arianna Huffington, told a gathering of Brazilians …
Discussion: The New York Observer
Jemima Kiss / Guardian:
Andy Carvin: the man who tweets revolutions  —  NPR's media strategist has become a leading player in the breaking news business  —  Andy Carvin insists that the introduction on his Google Plus profile - “I tweet revolutions” - is a joke, but nevertheless that's what he's famous for.
Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Phone-Hacking Lawyer Lewis Says Hearing Could End James Murdoch's Career  —  Mark Lewis, the lawyer representing dozens of News of the World phone-hacking victims, said testimony by former News Corp. (NWSA) executives to the U.K. Parliament tomorrow may determine if James Murdoch lied about the scandal.
Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer:
Tavi Launches Magazine with Help from Friends at This American Life and The Awl  —  Tavi Gevinson's online magazine for teens, Rookie, launched today.  Although it publishes daily, Rookie will have monthly themes to create the cohesiveness of a magazine issue, according to managing editor Emily Condon.
 
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