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2:40 PM ET, September 14, 2011

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
All for One!  Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft Band Together for Ad Plan.  —  AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft compete for ad dollars.  But a new pact calls for the rivals to cooperate on ad sales, too.  —  The three companies are going to start selling ad inventory on each others' sites …
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Wall Street Journal Adds to Live Video Programming  —  Operating a bit like a stealth business news network, The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday announced a major expansion of its video unit, which is now producing three and a half hours of live programming each weekday and will soon produce even more.
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Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
How Tumblr is Changing Journalism  —  Earlier this week we looked at the remarkable growth of Tumblr, a blogging and curation service that now gets over 12 billion page views per month.  Tumblr is mostly used as a consumer curation tool - it's an easy way for people to re-post articles, images and videos.
John Koblin / WWD:
More Movement at The New York Times  —  TIME FOR A RESHUFFLE: New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson quietly removed two editors from the masthead on Tuesday as she continued to make moves throughout the paper.  Former New York Times Magazine editor Gerry Marzorati …
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Wall Street Journal:
Scandal Clouds James Murdoch's Path  —  Future Muddied by U.K. Hacking Probe  —  Rupert Murdoch has long said he wants one of his children to succeed him.  The scandal at News Corp. has threatened that prospect.  —  Youngest son James, 38 years old, has been groomed as heir apparent.
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News.me:
News.me is all grown up (and now free)!  —  We're pleased to announce that News.me has officially spun out of bitly to run as an independent company under betaworks.  Here's what John Borthwick has to say about the change on his blog: Over the past year, News.me has been incubated within bitly.
The Independent:
Exposed after eight years: a private eye's dirty work for Fleet Street  —  Files seen by The Independent detail 17,000 requests to investigator Steve Whittamore  —  Former police officer has revealed how the authorities have known for more than eight years the vast scale …
Emily Witt / The New York Observer:
$2 a Word?  Chump Change!  With Byliner and Atavist, Hungry Freelance Writers Seek Out Alternatives To Magazine Work  —  William T. Vollmann on assignment in Japan for Byliner Originals.  (Photo from Byliner)  —  When the journalist David Dobbs first had the idea of writing an article …
Discussion: CJR
Janine Gibson / Guardian:
Unveiling the Guardian's new US homepage  —  The Guardian has launched a new US front page at guardiannews.com.  Janine Gibson explains why  —  Today we're unveiling the new url and front page for our US readers.  It's the first tiny step in our bid to improve the Guardian website for US users …
Jeff Roberts / paidContent:
Patent Troll Strikes Bloomberg, NYT And Other News Giants  —  For some time now, so-called patent trolls have aggressively targeted the biggest tech companies in the world.  Now, they seem to be setting their sights on large media companies too.  A shell company in Delaware is suing Bloomberg …
Hollywood Reporter:
Top Viacom Ad Exec Out Over Alleged Kickbacks (Exclusive) … A senior Viacom advertising executive has exited the company following an investigation into allegations of a kickback scheme involving millions of dollars over a period of years.  —  Brian Fays was senior vp at MTV Networks …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Glenn Beck Reveals Big Plans For Web Network  —  NEW YORK — ESPN fans are likely to tune into the sports network each day without knowing what those four letters stand for.  Glenn Beck says he wouldn't mind the same thing happening with his new web-only TV network, GBTV.
Latoya Peterson / Poynter:
In TechCrunch world, readers value interpretation as much as information  —  This week, thousands of people descended on San Francisco for Tech Crunch Disrupt where the start-up focused conference is in full swing with Michael Arrington, found and former editor for TechCrunch, in attendance.
Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
Newspapers Are Messing Up Their Mobile Strategies, Researchers Say  —  Regional newspaper publishers are blithely shovelling their expensive content to mobile channels with no hint of a business model, according to new research.  —  Publications in 66 UK cities have mostly abandoned experiments …
Dan Pacheco / MediaShift Idea Lab:
Why News Organizations Should Follow HuffPost's Lead and Try E-Books  —  Last week, BookBrewer had the great honor to be chosen by The Huffington Post, which used our platform to create and distribute its first e-book: “A People's History of the Great Recession” by Arthur Delaney.
The Atlantic Online:
How Will Shortz Edits a New York Times Crossword Puzzle  —  Will Shortz has served as the crossword puzzle editor for the New York Times since 1993.  The only known person to hold a degree in enigmatology, the study of puzzles, he has been the puzzle master for NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday since the program's inception in 1987.
 
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