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10:30 AM ET, March 6, 2012

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London Evening Standard:
Two Murdoch reporters feared to be in suicide bids  —  Two senior journalists at News International have apparently attempted to commit suicide as pressure mounts inside the Murdoch media empire.  The reporters appeared to try to take their own lives after the company turned over 300 million emails …
Discussion: Business Insider
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Ed Pilkington / Guardian:
News Corp dropped top US anti-bribery lawyer from its legal team  —  Amid possible US prosecution, leading expert on FCPA stopped advising Murdoch empire soon after he was hired this summer  —  News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch's media empire that is under investigation by the FBI …
David Leigh / Guardian:
Yard chief ate with ex-deputy NoW editor after bid to halt Guardian story
Discussion: Crikey and Press Gazette
Wall Street Journal:
Limbaugh Syndicator Defends Host  —  More advertisers and at least one radio station defected from Rush Limbaugh's radio show on Monday, even as the syndication company behind the program defended the conservative political pundit.  AOL Inc. was among the latest advertisers to pull out in response …
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
As Advertisers Recoil, Limbaugh Says, ‘So Be It’
Paul McNally / Journalism.co.uk:
Marie Colvin funeral to be held in New York this weekend  —  Body of veteran Sunday Times reporter killed covering the Syria uprising en route back to the USA  —  Marie Colvin: ‘died doing something she was completely passionate about’  —  The funeral of Sunday Times war correspondent Marie Colvin …
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Press TV:   ‘Rebels killed Western journalists in Syria, not Assad army’
Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:
Papers Put Faith in Paywalls  —  Digital Subscription Sales Are Slow, but Publishers Are Encouraged by Trends  —  As more newspapers close the door on free access to their websites, some publishers are still waiting for paying customers to pour in.  —  The numbers of readers signing …
Discussion: Noted and JIMROMENESKO.COM
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Alt weeklies eye an AP of their own with a content exchange  —  The Association of Alternative Newsmedia is building out a kind of wire service to allow alternative news sites to share content with each other — and maybe make some money.  —  The recently launched AltWeeklies Content Exchange lets papers …
Discussion: eMedia Vitals and Street Fight
Laura Snider / Daily Camera:
11-year-old publishes 200th issue of Boulder community newspaper  —  There's another Camera newspaper in town.  Residents of one south Boulder neighborhood can get the Boardman Camera personally delivered once a week by the publisher (who is also the editor, reporter, illustrator, ads salesman …
Discussion: Poynter
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
It's Time to Retire the FCC's Outdated Rules on Media Ownership  —  Like most industry trade groups, the Newspaper Association of America fights a lot of rearguard actions, such as trying to convince readers and advertisers that newsprint is still a vital medium even as the evidence that it's not anymore piles up left and right.
Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
Drudge Report Looks Old-School, But Its Ad Targeting Is State-of-the-Art  —  Drudge is like a 1995 Ford Escort with a 500-horsepower advertising engine under the hood.  —  Every major website tracks its users as they make their way through the site, but in an analysis completed by the privacy company …
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Newspapers: It's not a revenue problem, it's a culture problem  —  The Project for Excellence in Journalism at the Pew Research Center has come out with a substantial new report on the efforts of newspapers both large and small to grow their digital businesses, and — not surprisingly, perhaps — the results are all over the map.
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Former Enron guy Herbert Winokur steps down from board of ‘CJR,’ and ends his funding of its business-media blog, ‘The Audit’  —  Herbert “Pug” Winokur, the former Enron board member and finance committee chairman when the company was destroyed by an accounting-fraud scandal in 2001 …
Discussion: Talking Biz News
 
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
TVGuide.com Acquires Fav.Tv To Expand Mobile App Team
Discussion: AdAge, Lost Remote, GigaOM and Fav.tv Blog
Greg Sandoval / CNET:
Roger Ebert says Netflix has stopped buying indie films
Allan Kustanovich / WWD:
Rolling Stone's Eric Bates Says Print Will Survive
Discussion: Garcia Media
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Condé Nast Primes Ars Technica for Its Big Moment
Discussion: eMedia Vitals and Capital New York
 Earlier Picks: 
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘Times’ and Politico duke it out for Super Tuesday web-video watchers
Jesse Ellison / The Daily Beast:
How NPR Became a Hotbed for Female Journalists
Discussion: Poynter and FishbowlLA
Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
Leveson inquiry hears of alleged ‘trade’ between press and police
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Guardian
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
FT journalists urge Scardino to intervene
Neal Ungerleider / Fast Company:
Bloomberg Expanding Tech Coverage
Discussion: Betabeat and New Media Age