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9:05 PM ET, December 12, 2011

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Nick Davies / Guardian:
What the police now know about Milly Dowler hacking  —  Operation Weeting investigation confirms most of original phone hacking story, but it is no longer clear what prompted initial deletion that gave Dowler family false hope Milly was still alive  —  A week ago, I discovered that the police …
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John Bingham / Telegraph:
Phone hacking: Guardian's Nick Davies accuses bosses of ‘pecking’ at climb-down story
David Leigh / Guardian:
Leveson launches spin-off inquiry into hacking of Milly Dowler's voicemail
Discussion: Press Gazette
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Ailes on Ailes: Fox News Chief Is Writing an Autobiography  —  Roger Ailes.  —  Several GOP candidates have treated this primary season as a book tour, just as much as a presidential campaign.  Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, and Sarah Palin have all hustled around the country selling books …
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Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Is Roger Ailes Penning an Autobiography? Fox News Responds
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
BuzzFeed Adds Politico Writer  —  BuzzFeed, a site where the editors and algorithms sift the Web in search of viral articles elsewhere, has decided that it needs articles of its own.  —  In a move that is sure to surprise the political and journalistic classes, the site is hiring Ben Smith …
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Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:
Steve Jobs Biography Is Amazon's Best-Selling Book Of The Year  —  Move over, Tina Fey — Amazon has just released the list of their ten best-selling books of the year, and Walter Isaacson's thoughtful biography of Steve Jobs has come out on top.  —  The biography's appearance at the top …
Jim Romenesko:
Michael Duffy promoted to Time executive editor  —  Time editor-in-chief John Huey and managing editor Rick Stengel tell their employees: It's hard to describe what Michael Duffy does at TIME because he does so much and he does it so discreetly.  He presides over Washington and our political coverage …
David Lieberman / Deadline.com:
Netflix Shares Soaring On Report Of Sale Talks With Verizon  —  The video rental company's shares have spiked 6.8% in midday trading — an eye-popping standout on a day when the market's down about 2%.  The reason: website DealReporter says that Verizon is considering buying Netflix to get into the video streaming business.
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Newt Gingrich Spokesman Outs Candidate As Anonymous Source  —  The New Hampshire Union Leader recently quoted “a senior aide in the [Newt] Gingrich campaign” pushing hard, and at length, against criticism from former Governor John H. Sununu, an outspoken surrogate for Mitt Romney's campaign.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:   On ‘Gingrich aide,’ a heated no comment from McQuaid
Alicia Shepard / Poynter:
‘60 Minutes’ story on homeless children in Florida spurs $1 million in donations  —  “60 Minutes” doesn't often do updates unless it re-airs an old story.  But it will this weekend because of the overwhelming response to its story on homeless kids living in vehicles in Florida.
Discussion: TVNewser
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Huffington Post to launch a version in Spain, to be called El Huffington Post  —  The Huffington Post has just signed a deal with Spanish newspaper El Pais to produce a new version of the caffeinated news brand Arianna Huffington has made famous in the United States.
Allegra Stratton / Guardian:
NI pays Tessa Jowell £200,000  —  Ex-Labour cabinet minister gets settlement after police said her phone had been hacked by News of the World  —  The former Labour cabinet minister Tessa Jowell has accepted a £200,000 settlement from Rupert Murdoch's News International over the hacking of her phone.
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Guardian:
Met police chief's rediscovered diaries reveal meals with NoW executives
Discussion: Guardian
Telegraph:   Phone Hacking: confirmed victims ‘total about 800’, says police inquiry chief
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
In video, confrontation between a ‘Times’ photographer and the NYPD at Occupy Wall Street protest downtown  —  It still seems like not all New York Police Department officers got that memo from their boss a few weeks ago warning them not to interfere with members of the media during police actions …
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
With Netflix For Nook Color, Barnes & Noble Fights Against Kindle Fire  —  Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) is blurring the lines between the $199 Nook Color and $249 Nook Tablet with a major update for the Color, adding access to streaming video through Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX).
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Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:
Under Fire, Amazon Says Kindle Fire Is Getting An Update Within Two Weeks
Dylan Stableford / Yahoo! News:
Ratings: ABC/Yahoo News Republican debate drew biggest audience of 2012 race so far  —  The ABC News/Yahoo News Republican presidential debate drew 7.58 million total viewers on Saturday night, making it the most-watched GOP debate of the 2012 campaign season so far.
Discussion: Yahoo! News
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Mark Cuban Wants To Get You Laid, Invests In Men's Advice Site Brotips  —  Being a man in the modern world is no easy task.  Should I friend her on Facebook?  When is it alright to ignore a text message?  Men's advice site Brotips can help, and Mark Cuban wants to make sure you've heard of it.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Wikipedia Mulls Total Blackout to Oppose SOPA  —  Later this week, the Senate's House Judiciary Committee will vote on the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA).  —  Supporters of the bill say it's needed to safeguard the interests of rightsholders who claim their businesses are threatened by online piracy.
 
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Jim Romenesko:
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Richard Mullins / Tampa Bay Online:
165 layoffs under way at Tampa Tribune, sister papers
Discussion: Poynter
Jeff Roberts / paidContent:
Did HuffPo Just Get ‘Sex-Squatted’?
Discussion: Washington Post
Voice of San Diego:
Changes at VOSD  —  Today was a difficult day of change for voiceofsandiego.org.
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Time Warner Revises $1.3 Billion Bid for Endemol to All-Cash Offer
Discussion: Company Town and New York Post
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Andrew Critchlow / Wall Street Journal:
Chief Operating Officer Peter Macourt To Leave News Ltd
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Pearson to sell FTSE stake for £450m
Discussion: Media Week
D.M. Levine / Adweek:
Executives at Struggling OWN Consider Changing Course
Discussion: The Huffington Post
David Carr / New York Times:
When Truth Survives Free Speech
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

Paresh Dave / Wired:
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Reuters:
Albania bans TikTok for a year from January 2025, part of a broader plan to make schools safer following the killing of a 14-year-old near a school in November
 
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