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7:40 AM ET, March 28, 2012

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Frontline:
Murdoch's Scandal  —  FRONTLINE goes inside the struggle over the future of News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch's reputation and his family's fortune.
Discussion: Vanity Fair
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Matt Siegel / New York Times:
Murdoch's News Ltd. Rejects TV Piracy Claim in Australia  —  SYDNEY — Rupert Murdoch's embattled media empire found itself facing fresh controversy on Wednesday, after an Australian newspaper published an investigative report alleging that News Corporation had engaged a special unit …
Discussion: Reuters
Michael White / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch: a man of prices, not values
Discussion: Guardian
Neil Chenoweth / Australian Finance Review:   Whistleblower made to change his tune
James Cusick / The Independent:   From Sicily to the US courts - the trail of evidence could hit Murdoch where it hurts
Neil Chenoweth / Australian Financial Review:
Free to air: dirty tricks broadcast for all to see
Discussion: @edgecliffe
ArabSaga:
Have two more journalists been killed in Syria?  —  Syrian security forces reportedly killed Monday two independent journalists of Algerian origin but holding British citizenship in Idlib province, where they were filming a documentary on the Syrian uprising.
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Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
Two British freelance journalists killed in Syria, CPJ reports  —  Foreign Office is looking into reports that two British nationals of Algerian descent were killed in Syria on Monday, with a third journalist wounded in the attack  —  Two British freelance journalists of Algerian descent …
Peter Osnos / The Atlantic Online:
Even Old Media Institutions Are Acting Like New Media  —  60 Minutes has online games.  The Wall Street Journal and The Times produce hours of video per day.  Legacy publications have embraced social media.  —  The loyalty of baby boomers to print publications tends to be deeply rooted …
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Elana Zak / 10,000 Words:   How The Wall Street Journal Uses Pinterest
Steven Waldman / CJR:
News Organizations That Lobby Against Their Own Reporters' Interests  —  Media companies are fighting political transparency while their reporters demand it  —  The battle playing out over a new government transparency proposal has taken a turn that should concern journalists.
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Corporation for Public Broadcasting gives NPR $500,000 for foreign news coverage  —  The money, announced last night as NPR journalist Lourdes Garcia-Navarro was honored with an Edward R. Murrow award, “will help support journalists and producers stationed across five key NPR foreign bureaus …
Discussion: PRWeb
Elizabeth Flock / Washington Post:
Are Syrian citizen journalists embellishing the truth?  —  International assistance for Syria became more likely Tuesday after Syria's government said it had accepted a United Nations plan to halt the violence and forge a political solution, The Post's Alice Fordham reports.
Discussion: MediaShift Idea Lab
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
What book publishers should learn from Harry Potter  —  After months of anticipation, the e-book versions of author J.K. Rowling's phenomenally successful Harry Potter series are now available through Rowling's Pottermore online unit, and as my PaidContent colleague Laura Owen has noted …
Kevin Roderick / LA Observed:
OC Register plans to “news mob” the Angels opener  —  The Orange County Register is really, really officially excited about the Angels season opening on April 6.  Sure, it has happened every April for 51 years already.  But this year the team has arguably baseball's biggest star in Albert Pujols.
Discussion: FishbowlLA
Dino Grandoni / The Atlantic Wire:
Top 100 Apps in the iPad's Newsstand Bring in $70,000 a Day Combined  —  iPads are often heralded as the future of newspapers and magazines, which may very well be true, but be sure to remember that journalism in tablet-form is still pretty young.  Case in point: news apps on the iPad still …
Hugo Kugiya / Crosscut:
Three years after, what remains of the P-I?  —  Now a website only, SeattlePI.com is surviving as “a quasi-national medium with a local bent” and a small (and shrinking) staff.  Lately, some big names have departed without being replaced.  —  Three years ago, when the Seattle Post-Intelligencer …
Discussion: Poynter
Press Gazette:
NoW's James Desborough released without charge  —  Former News of the World US editor James Desborough was today told he faces no further action in Scotland Yard's phone-hacking probe.  —  Desborough was held in August last year on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications for the now defunct Sunday tabloid.
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Jim Romenesko:
NYT: 'The ball is now in the Guild's court'
Radu Tyrsina / ITProPortal:
Gannett Buys 1,000 iPhones For Journalists
Discussion: Politico and Gannett Blog
Associated Press:
Perelman Drops out of Philly Newspaper Group
Discussion: Philly.com
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Life after ‘Vice’: Former editor Jesse Pearson talks about his new magazine with fellow alum McPheeters
Discussion: bookforum.com and FishbowlLA
Milo Yiannopoulos / The Kernel:
The Dangers of Earnest Preaching
 Earlier Picks: 
Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:
Boston Globe Launches ‘ePaper,’ Brings Digital Replica of Print to iPad, iPod
Chandra Johnson Greene / Stamford Patch:
CT Man Sues Journalist, NBC Universal for Libel
Discussion: Talking Biz News
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
HuffPo Co-Founder Ken Lerer's Stealthy Startup Aims at CNN, Fox
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Jill Abramson talks Israel-Iran coverage
Discussion: Capital New York
Kat Stoeffel / The New York Observer:
Bob Sapio Out at Daily News