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2:45 PM ET, September 23, 2011

Top News:

David Bowden / Sky News:

Phone Hacking: Lawyers To Launch US Action — Lawyers acting for phone-hacking victims are planning to launch legal action in the US against directors of the News Of The World's (NOTW) parent company News Corp, Sky Sources have said. — It is another significant escalation in the phone-hacking saga …

Discussion: mediabistro.com and FishbowlNY

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Phone hacking: Dowler lawyer pursues US legal action against News Corp — Mark Lewis instructs lawyer of 20 9/11 families over allegations News of the World staff may have bribed police — The solicitor who represented the family of Milly Dowler in their phone-hacking claims …

Discussion: Media & Entertainment, On Media's Blog, Adweek, The Wrap, Media Matters for America, New York Magazine and Press Gazette

Telegraph:

Phone hacking: News International paid Neil Wallis while he was at Scotland Yard — The former News of the World executive employed by the Metropolitan Police was secretly paid more than £25,000 by News International during his time at Scotland Yard, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

Discussion: Jon Slattery

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: NI chief executive reneges on Rebekah Brooks promise to staff

Marco.org:

A Business Insider retrospective — After reading Ryan McCarthy's post at Reuters about Business Insider, I wanted to run some numbers. — After all, they've linked to nearly every significant article I've written for the last few years, often automatically by scraping Techmeme.

Discussion: Business Insider, The Awl, @marcoarment, @zee, @mathewi and Talking Biz News

Ryan McCarthy / Felix Salmon:

Business Insider, over-aggregation, and the mad grab for traffic — The news that Business Insider raised approximately $7 million should be great news for those who follow the world of web media. Henry Blodget's got a flat-out growth story on his hands: his staff of 60 now attracts 12 million visitors …

Discussion: Business Insider, PE Hub Blog, ITProPortal, @mccarthyryanj, AdPulp, The Corsair, eMedia Vitals, Daring Fireball, paidContent, Betabeat, TechCrunch, Pulse2 and AllThingsD, more at Techmeme »

Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:

Press Widely Criticized, But Trusted More than Other Information Sources — Views of the News Media: 1985-2011 — OVERVIEW — Negative opinions about the performance of news organizations now equal or surpass all-time highs on nine of 12 core measures the Pew Research Center has been tracking since 1985.

Discussion: Poynter, Gallup, Mediaite, Free Press, Kirk LaPointe's …, Erik Wemple, Big Journalism and Reportr.net

Jennifer Saba / Reuters:

FT Web-based app more popular than app sold in Apple store — (Reuters) - More than 700,000 people use the Financial Times' Web-based mobile application to access news and other content, making it more popular than the version sold in Apple's App Store. — The business newspaper …

Discussion: App Advice, 9to5Mac, GigaOM and MacStories, more at Techmeme »

Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:

The Guardian and Independent launch Facebook apps — Facebook unveils new type of app ‘which could be very interesting in terms of traffic’, according to the Guardian — The Guardian and Independent have become the first UK newspapers to launch a new style Facebook app …

Discussion: The Independent, Mixed Media, Gawker, Journalism.co.uk, Guardian and Online Journalism Blog, more at Techmeme »

Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:

HarperCollins to Allow Print-on-Demand Books — It's about to get easier to find more books at some small bookstores. — HarperCollins Publishers Inc. has agreed to make about 5,000 current paperbacks available to bookstores through On Demand Books LLC's Espresso Book Machine …

Discussion: The New York Observer

Andrew Shotland / Google News Ranking Factors 2011:

How Do You Get To The Top of Google News? — That's the question on the minds of pretty much everyone in the news industry. And that's the question Tim Ruder, Neil Pharazyn and I were discussing when we came up with the idea for the Google News' Ranking Factors Survey.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Firm Offers Insight Into Tablet Mag Sales — Publishers have big hopes that tablet editions will help offset what have been soft sales of their ink on paper magazines. But digital magazine sales have been slow to take off. — Some are testing a new service that could help them get more out of their sales efforts though.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Changes Coming to ‘Wall Street Journal’ — The Wall Street Journal is about to get a new look, one that will bring more color to the traditionally staid business paper, and that could help it attract advertisers. — This is one more in a series of changes to the feel of the look …

The Next Web:

Facebook's f8 livestream: 25 days in the making, a 40-person team, a milestone in online media — For me, the biggest news from Facebook's f8 event today isn't social music, the partnerships or even the new Timeline feature - it's the livestream. — This was no live feed …

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Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

In Seattle Times' new digital-first newsroom, roles change to ‘creation, curation, community’ — The Seattle Times has reorganized its newsroom to a digital-first structure with three personnel roles: creation, curation and community. Reporters and editors create content …

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Washington Post CEO Explains Facebook Partnership — NEW YORK — For the past few months, Washington Post CEO Don Graham tried out a beta version of the newspaperâs Social Reader, one of several news apps unveiled by Mark Zuckerberg at Thursdayâs f8 conference.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, GigaOM, Future of Journalism and Mashable!