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8:00 PM ET, September 23, 2011

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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 …
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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 …
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
Sky News:
Andy Coulson To Sue News Group Newspapers
Discussion: Adweek
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:   NI chief executive reneges on Rebekah Brooks promise to staff
Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
Dear Tumblr And Instapaper Genius Marco Arment: We're Sorry You're Not A Fan  —  We've read your criticism of our site, and we'd like to respond.  —  You don't like our headlines, our slideshows, our sharing buttons, and a bunch of other things.  That's fine, we don't mind that our taste isn't your taste.
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Marco.org:
A Business Insider retrospective
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.
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 …
Jim Romenesko / Poynter:
Baltimore Sun to put up paywall next month  —  The Sun's paywall goes up October 10.  “To encourage readers to sign up at launch, we will offer a special introductory rate of 99 cents for the first 4 weeks,” says publisher Tim Ryan's memo.  “After that, digital-only subscribers will have a cost of $2.49 a week or $49.99 for 26 weeks.
Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
EXCLUSIVE: Ex-TechCrunch Star Paul Carr Is Starting A New Company Backed By... Michael Arrington's CrunchFund!  —  Last week, TechCrunch columnist and author Paul Carr quit TechCrunch in spectacular fashion, accusing AOL management of royally screwing up everything and knifing founder Mike Arrington.
Caitlin Johnston / American Journalism Review:
CNN Under Fire  —  Should the news outlet have cosponsored a GOP debate with the Tea Party Express?  Fri., September 23, 2011  —  Caitlin Johnston is a graduate student at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland.  —  Texas Gov. Rick Perry isn't the only one under fire this primary season.
Discussion: TVNewser
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
Keach Hagey / The Politico:
Jay Carney schools White House reporters  —  Jay Carney never lets the reporters he briefs each day forget that not so long ago, he was one of them.  —  Whether he's sidestepping a request to predict what can pass the House ("Well, I hung up my reporter cleats"), shutting down a line …
Discussion: Poynter
Matt Burns / TechCrunch:
Blockbuster Movie Pass: Dish Network's $10/Month Answer To Netflix  —  Dish Network has the answer to Netflix: Blockbuster.  The company bought the bankrupt Blockbuster six months ago at auction for $228 million and apparently wasted no time integrating Blockbuster's current streaming service into Dish's satellite TV plans.
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.
Noah Davis / Business Insider:
Ex-Yahoo VP Hired To Save Bloomberg.com Quits  —  Kevin Krim, the former Yahoo executive poached by Bloomberg in 2009, is leaving the financial giant, Business Insider learned on Friday.  —  His destination is unknown.  —  He had been tasked with turning Bloomberg.com into a more consumer-friendly site.
Discussion: paidContent and Talking Biz News
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 …
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Thanks:martinsfp
 
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
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Jim Romenesko / Poynter:
Emily Peck leaves WSJ for Huffington Post
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
In Seattle Times' new digital-first newsroom, roles change to ‘creation, curation, community’
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Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
What f8 Means for Advertisers: The Ability to Target Users Based on Media Consumption
Andrew Shotland / Google News Ranking Factors 2011:
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From Techmeme:

Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
The US Senate reauthorizes FISA's Section 702; some communication service providers had threatened to stop cooperating with the US government in case of a lapse

Daniel Wiessner / Reuters:
Google scraps a 2019 policy requiring US suppliers and staffing firms to pay their employees $15 an hour and provide health insurance and other benefits

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal:
PCs that can run large AI models may drive an enterprise PC replacement cycle, but some CIOs say they'll wait for the category to mature and prices to come down
 
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