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12:00 PM ET, October 12, 2011

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Kelvin MacKenzie / London Evening Standard:
I only checked the source of one story when I was Sun editor... and that landed me with £1m bill for Elton libel  —  So where is David Cameron today?  Where is our great Prime Minister who ordered this ludicrous inquiry?  —  After all, the only reason we are all here is due to one man's action …
Discussion: Guardian, @benfenton and @benfenton
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James Robinson / Guardian:
Daily Mail to launch corrections column
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Phone hacking: Glenn Mulcaire wants ‘persecution’ by victims to stop
Discussion: Journalism.co.uk and Deadline.com
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Spitzer wants a petition to dump Geithner; has no plans for another TV show  —  Azi Paybarah.  —  Standing before a white lectern (and in front of a vintage advertisement for “hosiery and underwear") former governor and former CNN talk-show host Eliot Spitzer told a crowded room …
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Josh Stearns / @jcstearns:   In my new update, tracking journalist arrests at #occupy protests http://t.co/Rx4zqCJF reporter @bobplain shows the marks from his handcuffs
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
Gitlin: Media coverage of Occupy Wall Street is predictably lazy, but likely to improve
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Why floods couldn't break through Pennsylvania paywall, while New York Times created leaks in theirs  —  Newspapers spend a lot of time and energy erecting website paywalls, but are they thinking enough about when to take them down?  —  Even if a publisher commits to a paywall …
Steve Myers / Poynter:
The Daily Meal offers advertisers money-back guarantee  —  The Daily Meal is promising companies that buy $200,000 of ads over three months that they will get their money back if the ads don't result in a “statistically significant increase” in one of five measures of brand influence.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
AOL Wants To Be The AP For Online Video; Offers “Editors Room” For Video Embeds  —  The problem with online video is that producing the high-quality stuff at scale is expensive and difficult.  But what if there was a place online that licensed decent videos and made it available to other sites?
Discussion: Online Video News
John Biggs / TechCrunch:
The iOS Newsstand Is Open For Business  —  Folks who have upgraded to iOS 5 will note that the iOS Newsstand is now running and available as a standalone app.  If you've already downloaded any of Apple's official magazines - most Conde Nast titles are using Apple's own service, for example …
Discussion: Softpedia News
Wall Street Journal:
Publisher of WSJ Europe Resigns  —  LONDON—The Wall Street Journal Europe Tuesday said that its publisher, Andrew Langhoff, resigned after nearly three years in the post because of the company's “zero tolerance for even the appearance of a breach of ethical standards.”
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Updated: WSJ Europe Chief Langhoff Resigns Over Ethical Concerns
Discussion: @edmundlee and On Media's Blog
Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer:
The Daily Beast and Amanda Knox's Trial By Media  —  Knox.  —  Over the past two years, while most American coverage of the Meredith Kercher murder case either played the story straight or raised questions about the competence of the Italian justice system, Tina Brown's The Daily Beast followed …
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Planning a paywall?  Maybe you should sell some e-books instead  —  The number of newspapers and other media entities that are erecting paywalls or launching subscription-based apps for the iPhone and iPad continues to grow, and even some smaller regional newspapers are throwing up walls to try to protect their print subscriptions.
Discussion: eMedia Vitals and NYConvergence.com, Thanks:mathewi
CNET News:
How Gizmodo escaped indictment in iPhone prototype deal  —  The great iPhone prototype caper of 2010 has finally ended, with the two men accused of shopping the device to gadget blogs sentenced to probation yesterday.  —  Last year's investigation began with a raid on Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's Fremont …
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
7 keys to managing a great social media news team  —  As news organizations embrace Twitter and Facebook to distribute stories and engage their audiences, many have decided social media is no longer a one-person job.  —  Effective social media use now requires that you post and monitor almost …
Matthew Fleischer / FishbowlLA:
News Vans Allegedly Vandalized at Occupy LA Protests  —  KTLA's Eric Spillman tweeted last night that a KTLA news van had been tagged with a giant “anarchy A” while parked outside the Occupy LA protests at City Hall.  —  Fox 11′s Bob DeCastro subsequently chimed in that his station and KNBC were also hit.
Tara Conlan / Guardian:
Pakistan and Iraq most dangerous countries for journalists  —  2011 has seen the killing of 44 journalists, with the Middle East and North Africa the most dangerous region to work in  —  Pakistan remains the most dangerous country for journalists to work in with eight killed there so far this year.
Tony Schinella / ConcordPatch:
Newspaper Union Pickets Perry Event  —  While Occupy has been on the mind of everyone recently, closer to home, the Manchester Newspaper Guild, the union representing workers at the New Hampshire Union Leader newspaper, recently picketed outside the home of 2012 gubernatorial candidate Ovide Lamontagne …
 
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Naspers Targets LatAm, Asia, East Europe Online Investments
Discussion: memeburn
Noah Davis / Business Insider:
Demand Media's Army Of Freelancers Is Furious After Getting Its Workload Cut Down
Fred Schruers / The Wrap:
Conde Nast's New Mogul Dawn Ostroff: Forget Cable, Digital Is the Future
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Ex-Gannett Reporter Shreds Publisher Over Dubow's $37 Million Parting Gift
Discussion: Jon Slattery and Gannett Blog
Steve Rubel / AdAge:
In Battle Between Social and Mainstream, Hybrid Media Will Be the Winner
Thanks:steverubel
Matt Stempeck / MediaShift Idea Lab:
What If We Had a Nutrition Label for the News?
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Gannett Shuttering MomsLikeMe Network, Deleting Everything
Discussion: Street Fight
Julie Moos / Poynter:
Eleanor Roosevelt column marked change in coverage of politicians' wives
Discussion: The Politico
 Earlier Picks: 
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Paywalls Spread To College Newspapers
Discussion: Poynter and Knight Foundation
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Night owls read news on tablets, as mobile overtakes computer for at-home browsing
Discussion: Garcia Media
Merrill Knox / TVNewser:
Keith Olbermann: ‘Great to be here, as always ... and also the simultaneous meeting of all my former employers.’
Discussion: TVSpy
Howard Lindzon / Fast Company:
Who Spreads The News? In Today's Connected World, Everyone [VIDEO]
John F. Morrison / Philly.com:
Linda Stowell, AP executive dies at 55
Jonathan Frost / Wannabe Hacks:
Journalists should spend 10% of their time on social media
Discussion: news:rewired
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
NYTimes Sues The Federal Government For Refusing To Reveal Its Secret Interpretation Of The PATRIOT Act