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1:50 PM ET, November 21, 2011

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Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:
Mail titles hit back at Grant over ‘mendacious smears’  —  Mail on Sunday denies claims by actor Hugh Grant that it hacked his phone in 2007, calling his allegations ‘mendacious smears driven by a hatred of the media’  —  Hugh Grant arrives at the Leveson inquiry today alongside his lawyer David Sherbourne
Discussion: Journalism.co.uk
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Mimi Turner / Hollywood Reporter:
Hugh Grant Accuses ‘The Mail on Sunday’ of Phone Hacking … LONDON - Hugh Grant blew open the phone-hacking investigation Monday, accusing The Mail on Sunday of listening to his mobile phone messages when he was dating Jemima Khan in 2007.  —  To date the Inquiry has heard allegations …
George Eaton / New Statesman:
Hugh Grant's 10 myths of tabloid journalism
Discussion: The Staggers
Ben Parr:
2,446 Articles Later, A Goodbye to Mashable  —  Dear friends, family, colleagues and supporters,  —  Friday, November 18, was my last day at Mashable.  I want to thank the Mashable team for 3+ amazing years.  They truly have been the best years of my life.  —  I also want to thank everybody who has been part of my journey.
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Matt Lynley / Business Insider:
Mashable Fires Editor At Large And Top Writer Ben Parr  —  UPDATE: Mashable has confirmed with us that Ben Parr was fired on Friday.  —  Parr got in touch with us to say this: “I'm proud to call myself a Mashable alumnus.  I have a couple of amazing things up my sleeve.”
Nick Summers / The Daily Beast:
Bloomberg's Plan for World Domination  —  With an army of reporters and wonky information services, the media company is expanding from Wall Street to Washington, Where it hopes to control—even more.  —  Bloomberg was everywhere, like Bloomberg likes to be.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Protest Puts Coverage in Spotlight  —  As police officers cleared protesters last week from Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan, the birthplace of Occupy Wall Street, they made sure most reporters were kept blocks away, supposedly for their own protection.  —  But in almost every other respect …
Vanessa Grigoriadis / New York Magazine:
Maharishi Arianna  —  Atop AOL, hiring and borrowing freely from the old media, a new age news guru is building her grandest temple yet.  —  On a recent Sunday afternoon, ­Arianna Huffington, the 61-year-old editorial director of the newly merged AOL-Huffington Post …
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
At 154, a Digital Milestone  —  The Atlantic Media Company owes its name and legacy to the 154-year-old monthly magazine founded by New England literary greats like Ralph Waldo Emerson.  But in October, the company marked a very modern milestone: digital advertising revenue exceeded print advertising revenue for the first time.
Daily Mail:
News of the World journalists' computers were destroyed by ‘putting them through a grinder and smashing them up’  —  The phone hacking scandal has taken a new twist after it was revealed computers used by News of the World journalists were destroyed by putting them ‘through a grinder’.
Discussion: Independent.ie
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James Robinson / Guardian:   Phone-hacking victims must not launch ‘witch-hunt’, says News International
Tom Krazit / paidContent:
Study iPad Owners Drive 88 Percent Of Worldwide Web Traffic From Tablets  —  One can argue the semantics over shipped units and sold units when evaluating the state of the tablet market in late 2011, but one thing seems pretty clear: way, way more people are using the iPad than any other tablet device …
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
NDA-Worthy PE Firms Silver Lake and TPG Meet With Top Yahoo Operating Execs  —  After signing strict nondisclosure agreements required by Yahoo, top private equity firms Silver Lake and TPG have been meeting with top operating execs there to get a closer look-see at the Silicon Valley Internet giant.
Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Rupert Murdoch sells A shares, but still in control  —  News Corp Chief Executive and Chairman Rupert Murdoch sold off the bulk of his common shareholding according to a regulatory filing but, have no fear the 80 year-old mogul is still very much in charge both in terms of management and financial control.
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
iPad Magazine Readers to Publishers: More, Please  —  After an initial wave of excitement about iPad magazines, some publishers have dialed back their enthusiasm.  But the readers who have actually downloaded them like them quite a bit.  —  So says a survey commissioned by a publishers' trade group …
 
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