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2:30 PM ET, March 28, 2012

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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 …
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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: Guardian, PBS, MetaFilter and Vanity Fair
Lucy Manning / ITV News:
Newspaper payments for potentially illegal information revealed
Discussion: @iburrell and National Updates
Josh Halliday / Guardian:   Australian minister wants News Corp inquiry
Press Gazette:   Thurlbeck: Phone-hacking was rife across Fleet Street
Anthony Rieber / Newsday:
Jeremy Lin meets with ex-ESPN headline writer  —  Knicks star Jeremy Lin had lunch on Tuesday with the former ESPN employee who was fired last month for writing a headline about Lin that included a racially insensitive word.  —  Lin met with Anthony Federico, a 28-year-old Connecticut man, during a Knicks off-day.
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Gothamist
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Kelly McBride / Poynter:
ESPN should find ways to cover the Trayvon Martin story rather than become part of it  —  ESPN.com's Jemele Hill did a very nice, tight column this week explaining how the lives of professional athletes are connected to the life and death of Trayvon Martin.  —  Contrast that to ESPN's bouncing …
Michael Wolff / Guardian:
Mobile and the news media's imploding business model  —  Smartphones will soon be the primary news source for most Americans.  That's if anyone can still make money by reporting  —  Pew research has a new survey showing that tablets and smart phones are now 27% of Americans' primary news source.
Discussion: Forbes and JIMROMENESKO.COM
Committee to Protect Journalists:
Two independent journalists killed in Syria  —  Syrian security forces shot and killed two freelance British journalists of Algerian descent and wounded a third during an attack on Monday in the town of Darkoush near the Turkish border, according to news reports and a witness interviewed by CPJ.
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Elizabeth Flock / Washington Post:
Are Syrian citizen journalists embellishing the truth?
Discussion: GigaOM and MediaShift Idea Lab
Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
Two British freelance journalists killed in Syria, CPJ reports
Discussion: ArabSaga and Guardian
Mike Armstrong / Philly.com:
Investor group's offer for PMN: $60 million  —  A group of local investors reportedly has offered to pay $60 million to acquire the parent company of The Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly.com.  —  Those investors, led by businessman Lewis Katz and insurance executive …
Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM
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Associated Press:   Perelman Drops out of Philly Newspaper Group
Dashiell Bennett / The Atlantic Wire:
The New Republic Tears Down Its Pay Wall  —  Readers and pundits have been wondering how a new owner might change the venerable Washington political magazine, The New Republic, and they just got a early answer.  A post on the magazine's blog announced early this morning that the website will drop its pay wall for recent articles.
Ryan Chittum / CJR:
The WaPo Ombudsman's Faulty Paywall Analysis  —  The NYT's meter is saving or adding more than $70 million in revenue a year already  —  Washington Post ombudsman Patrick B. Pexton has a flawed analysis on the logic of a possible paywall there and on the performance of the one that already exists at The New York Times.
Discussion: Poynter
Alicia Shepard / Poynter:
Chicago Public Radio to examine what went wrong with ‘This American Life’ story on Apple  —  The leaders of Chicago Public Radio and “This American Life” will conduct an in-depth examination into why they had to retract perhaps the most popular episode in the show's nearly 17-year-history.
Daniel Frankel / paidContent:
Is Cable's Long, Glorious Ratings Run Finally Over?  —  For more than three decades, cable TV programmers enjoyed steady ratings gains—mostly at the expense of broadcasters.  Inspired efforts like AMC's Mad Men and FX's Sons of Anarchy notwithstanding, those steady ratings increases sometimes belied …
Discussion: mediabistro.com
 
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Tim Carmody / Wired:
Bigger Than Agency, Bigger Than E-Books: The Case Against Apple and Publishers
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Bidding war for Smith book could hit $1M
Discussion: Business Insider and Gothamist
Dino Grandoni / The Atlantic Wire:
Top 100 Apps in the iPad's Newsstand Bring in $70,000 a Day Combined
Hugo Kugiya / Crosscut:
Three years after, what remains of the P-I?
Discussion: Poynter
Michael White / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch: a man of prices, not values
Peter Osnos / The Atlantic Online:
Even Old Media Institutions Are Acting Like New Media
 Earlier Picks: 
Steven Waldman / CJR:
News Organizations That Lobby Against Their Own Reporters' Interests
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Corporation for Public Broadcasting gives NPR $500,000 for foreign news coverage
Discussion: PRWeb
Jim Romenesko:
NYT: 'The ball is now in the Guild's court'
Discussion: Capital New York
Radu Tyrsina / ITProPortal:
Gannett Buys 1,000 iPhones For Journalists
Discussion: Politico
Kevin Roderick / LA Observed:
OC Register plans to “news mob” the Angels opener
Discussion: FishbowlLA