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10:00 AM ET, February 20, 2012

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Martin Phillips / The Sun:

The Sun next Sunday — A historic announcement — from Britain's most popular paper — THE Sun on Sunday has arrived. — Next weekend will see the birth of the first ever Sunday edition of your favourite paper. — Rupert Murdoch announced last week that The Sun on Sunday would be coming “very soon”.

Discussion: The New York Observer, Guardian, Reuters, Big News Network.com, @rupertmurdoch, Journalism.co.uk, @paulcarr, The Huffington Post, Guardian, @dansabbagh, FleetStreetBlues, Jon Slattery and Digital Spy

Guardian:

Rupert Murdoch to launch Sun on Sunday next weekend — News International says media mogul will stay in London to oversee birth of News of the World replacement — The Sun on Sunday will publish for the first time next weekend, News International has announced.

Discussion: Globe and Mail, Media Week, Press Gazette and Big News Network.com

Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:

No bail curbs to stop return of arrested Sun journalists — The ten arrested Sun journalists will not be prevented from returning to work by their bail conditions, Press Gazette has learned. — Tom Watson MP today sent a letter to the Met Police suggesting that the terms of police bail imposed …

Discussion: Tom Watson MP

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: Sun on Sunday to be edited by Dominic Mohan

NY Daily News:

Jeremy Lin headline slur was ‘honest mistake,’ fired ESPN editor Anthony Federico claims — EXCLUSIVE: ‘This had nothing to do with me being cute or punny’ — Jeremy Lin looks on during Knicks' victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday. — The ESPN editor fired Sunday for using …

Discussion: Mediaite, St. Petersburg Times, WebProNews and SBNation.com

David Carr / New York Times:

Media Hype for Lin Stumbles on Race — You don't have to be an economics graduate from Harvard like Jeremy Lin to do the math on the media explosion about Linsanity. — The suddenly celebrated Lin is a four-fer: a God-fearing, Asian-American, Ivy League benchwarmer who has changed the fortunes of the New York Knicks.

Discussion: @darrenrovell and The Huffington Post

Lucas Shaw / The Baltimore Sun: ESPN fires employee over racist Jeremy Lin headline

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Nook 8GB Tablet coming on February 22nd to better compete with Kindle Fire — The Nook Tablet's biggest problem so far has been that it costs $50 more than Amazon's Kindle Fire while targeting the same budget-conscious Android tablet market. That's likely to change soon, however …

Discussion: TechCrunch, paidContent, Engadget, Electronista, Softpedia News and Gizmodo

Will Bunch / Philly.com:

An open letter to the next owners of Philadelphia Media Networks — Dear next owner of Philadelphia Media Networks...whoever you are, — I've been meaning to write you for a couple of weeks — it's been hard what with all the confusion not only about what we're allowed or not allowed …

Discussion: Poynter, @jeffjarvis, @stevebuttry, @romenesko, Naked Philadelphian and Philadelphia City Paper

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Rendell Inquirer? The specter of the instrumentalization of American news media

Discussion: Philly.com and mediabistro.com

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

Profitable news — One of the most controversial things I have said (you're welcome for that straight line) is that I insist my entrepreneurial journalism students at CUNY build only for-profit businesses. When I said that at a recent symposium for teachers of entrepreneurial journalism …

Discussion: Recovering Journalist, Media Decoder, daniel sinker and @paulcarr

Michael Miner / Chicago Reader:
Why CNC is closing — James O'Shea, founder and editor …

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM and @jeffjarvis

Duncan Gardham / Telegraph:

Bulger killer could be in line for compensation from News of the World — One of the killers of James Bulger is seeking to sue News International for more than £50,000 after he was informed that his phone may have been hacked by the News of the World. — Robert Thompson

Discussion: The Week UK

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

Memorial fund set up in honour of New York Times journalist — The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced a memorial fund in honour of Anthony Shadid, as well as plans for a scholarship and ‘possibly’ an award in his name — The university at which New York Times foreign correspondent …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, New York Times and New York Times

Jxpaton / Digital First:

Old Dogs New Tricks and Crappy Newspaper Executives — (Speaking notes for an address to the Canadian Journalism Foundation — Good evening. — I'm old media. — This is my 36th year as a newspaper man - apologies - my 36th year as a multi-platform news executive.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, Recovering Journalist, Media, disrupted and @cressman

Josh Sternberg / Digiday:

The Guardian Thrives in Facebook's Walled Garden — In September, British newspaper The Guardian was one of the first publishers to build an app designed specifically for its content to be consumed (and shared) within Facebook. The upside: The prospect of added visibility to 850 million users.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals