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10:35 AM ET, March 22, 2012

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Sarah Limbrick / Press Gazette:
David Beckham's dad sues News Int over phone-hacking  —  The father of footballer star David Beckham's has become the latest celebrity to launch a lawsuit over phone-hacking.  —  Ted Beckham has joined a string of public figures suing News Group Newspapers and private investigator Glen Mulcaire …
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Martin Hickman / The Independent:
Rebekah Brooks questioned over alleged bribes  —  Rebekah Brooks was questioned by Scotland Yard detectives yesterday about alleged corrupt payments to Ministry of Defence officials.  The former chief executive of News International was tackled on the subject of the alleged bribes when she answered bail for her arrest last July.
Discussion: @joshhalliday and Telegraph
Sarah Marshall / journalism.co.uk:
Social predicted to overtake search as Guardian traffic driver  —  The Guardian's Facebook app has been downloaded eight million times since it was launched six months ago, seeing around 40,000 downloads a day.  —  Speaking at the Guardian Changing Media Summit, Tanya Cordrey …
Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg:
Discovery Oprah Network to Lose $143 Million, SNL Kagan Says  —  Oprah Winfrey Network, the cable- television venture between Discovery Communications Inc. (DISCA) and the talk-show host, may lose $142.9 million in 2012 as it struggles to gain viewers, according to researcher SNL Kagan.
David Bauder / The Huffington Post:
Rush Limbaugh Opponents Open A New Front Against Him  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Rush Limbaugh's opponents are starting a radio campaign against him Thursday, seizing upon the radio star's attack of a Georgetown law student as a “slut” to make a long-term effort aimed at weakening his business.
Alan Jacobs / The Atlantic Online:
Will Kindle's Free Samples Change the Structures of Plots?  —  Search-engine optimization reshaped the craft of a good headline.  Will Amazon's book promotions have a similar effect on novels?  —  We all know that people who run websites have a hatful of little tricks intended to give their sites more prominence in searches.
Discussion: TeleRead
Felix Salmon:
When journalists take money from Wall Street  —  Many thanks to Paul Starobin for getting to the bottom of the question of journalists being paid by Wall Street to give speeches.  This is one of those issues, a bit like the exact meaning of “off the record”, where everybody thinks …
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Slovakia's Paid Content System Eyes Up Larger Markets  —  The online news payment system introduced across Slovenian and Slovakian publishers in May and February wants to launch in three more countries this year.  —  Piano Media, which gives access to 70 sites across the two countries for a single fee …
Dale Kasler / Sacramento Bee:
McClatchy President Gary Pruitt leaving for AP  —  McClatchy President Gary B. Pruitt, who has led the company that owns The Sacramento Bee and 29 other newspapers for 16 years, is leaving to take the top post at the Associated Press.  —  McClatchy's chief financial officer, Patrick J. Talamantes, was named president and executive.
Emma Bazilian / Adweek:
Will the Kindle Fire Be an iPad Killer?  —  When Amazon released the Kindle Fire last November, it was heralded as the first tablet with a shot at loosening Apple's stronghold on the market.  But with Apple still dominating the tablet game—according to eMarketer, 83 percent of tablet owners have an iPad …
John Cook / Gawker:
There Is No Such Thing as a ‘Larger Truth’: This American Life's Rich History of Embellishment  —  Mike Daisey has been roundly and justly castigated for selling his bulls**t stories about visiting the Foxconn complex in Shenzhen, China, to This American Life.
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Adam Martin / The Atlantic Wire:
Mike Daisey Blames Other Reporters for Perpetuating His Lies
Amanda Bennett / Nieman Watchdog:
Lessons learned from a period of intense newspaper turmoil  —  Between September 2001 and November 2006, I was editor of two Knight Ridder papers, first the Lexington Herald-Leader and then The Philadelphia Inquirer.  It was a period of intense turmoil.  Today Knight Ridder no longer exists.
Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:
Former Roll Call Editor Spills Beans About Questionable Racial Hiring Practices  —  UPDATE: Roll Call Editorial Director Mike Mills Responds.  —  Roll Call's former Features Editor Debra Bruno (a.k.a. Bebbie Druno) is bound to burn a few bridges today with a story in the Opinion Pages …
Discussion: FishbowlNY
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Debra Bruno / Christian Science Monitor:   Facebook stalking in the name of affirmative action
 
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