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6:15 PM ET, April 4, 2012

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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
News International misses deadline to file its accounts  —  News International has failed to meet the Companies House deadline to file its accounts and has asked for a month's extension.  —  The company, which trades under the name of NI Group Ltd, made the request following its failure …
Discussion: NPR, AllThingsD and AllThingsD
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Reuters:
James Murdoch's BSkyB exit puts Rupert in firing line
Discussion: Guardian
Michael Wolff / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch's American media immunity
Paul McNally / Journalism.co.uk:   QC defends scope of original phone-hacking prosecution
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
DPP says there was ‘pushback’ from Met over hacking investigation
Discussion: Journalism.co.uk
Lucy Manning / ITV:
Report likely to accuse hacking witnesses of misleading parliament
Discussion: paidContent
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
New high score: How the NYT created its “stupid game”  —  When Jon Huang was younger he was the type of kid who spent his time making mods for Duke Nukem 3D.  So it makes a kind of sense he's now turned The New York Times into its own kind of shoot 'em up.  —  Huang was the multimedia producer behind …
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Steve Myers / Poynter:
Stupid game lets you destroy parts of NYT story about stupid games  —  The Times has figured out a great way to increase time-on-site (and destroy our productivity) by illustrating a story about our obsession with “stupid games” with a game that lets you shoot and destroy parts of its website.
Media Decoder:
New Philly Owners to Bring Back Marimow as Editor  —  William K. Marimow, who served as top editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer from 2006 to 2010, will rejoin the paper in the same role in a move that is expected to be announced this afternoon.  —  His appointment comes days …
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Paul Nussbaum / Philly.com:
PMN's new owners meet the employees, discuss the future  —  In an informal session Tuesday with newspaper and website employees, three new owners of Philadelphia Media Network reiterated their plans to make long-term investments in the media company to improve its financial and journalistic prospects.
Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM
Jim Romenesko:
Gannett announces 2Q furloughs for USA Today employees  —  Gannett community publishing division president Bob Dickey tells his employees that “I am happy to announce USCP [U.S. community publishing] will not institute furloughs in the second quarter.”
Discussion: Politico
David Barboza / New York Times:
Flattering News Coverage Has a Price in China  —  SHANGHAI — China is notorious for censoring politically delicate news coverage.  But it is more than willing to let flattering news about Western and Asian businesses appear in print and broadcast media — if the price is right.
Discussion: Reason and Media Decoder
Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:
Reed Hastings Will Get His HBO Go as Comcast Nears Deal on Xbox  —  Updated Comcast and HBO are close to finalizing a deal to make the HBO Go app available on Xbox, according to several people familiar with the negotiations.  —  The app, which offers all of the pay cable channel's shows …
Discussion: Multichannel and The Verge
Marc Berman / New York Post:
Keith needed ‘Diva’ limos e-mails reveal  —  Liberal bloviator Keith Olbermann spent his last days at Current TV driving colleagues nuts with rants about “smelly” drivers who had the audacity to talk to him, according to startling e-mails obtained by The Post.
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Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
Olbermann on Joining Current TV: 'I Didn't Think the Whole Thing Through'
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Reuters editor in chief received $2.7 million in 2011  —  Stephen J. Adler, the editor in chief of Reuters, received total compensation of $2.7 million in 2011, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.  —  Adler, who joined the company in 2010 after a stint as editor …
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Jennifer Saba / Reuters:   Ex-Thomson Reuters CEO Glocer gets nearly $20 million
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
New ASNE figures show percentage of minorities in newspaper newsrooms continues to decline  —  The number of minorities in the U.S. is growing, but in newspaper newsrooms it continues to creep downward.  —  New ASNE figures show that the percentage of minorities in newsrooms is now 12.32 percent.
Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Zite, CNN Launch Publisher Program To Ease Cease-And-Desist Concerns  —  Last April Fools' Day, publishers from Time Inc. to the Washington Post Company sent fast-growing startup Zite an aggressive cease-and-desist letter.  The publishers weren't joking, accusing Zite's app …
Discussion: GigaOM, Poynter, Adweek, CNET and VentureBeat
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Yahoo Cuts 2,000 Jobs in ‘Urgent’ Restructuring  —  Purple people eater?  (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)  —  The anticipated wave of layoffs at Yahoo has arrived, and it's as big as promised.  —  The Sunnywale, Calif.-based internet giant announced plans to eliminate 2,000 jobs, or about 14% of its workforce of 14,000.
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Instapaper, Readability and monetizing other people's content  —  There's been a minor furor brewing in the digital-content sphere over the past few days involving Readability, an app and web service that allows readers to save content from any website and read it later …
Dan Zak / Washington Post:
Woodward and Bernstein: Could the Web generation uncover a Watergate-type scandal?  —  The gabby, gray-haired grand poobahs of journalism sprang from the back flaps of their book jackets onto a real-life panel Tuesday afternoon in the air-conditioned guts of the Marriott Wardman Park …
Discussion: ShortFormBlog
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Nonprofit status: A maybe for news orgs, a yes for the NFL  —  I like football, so I was interested in this piece over at Pro Football Talk that details the salary of National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell.  (That's $11,554,000 — not bad.)  But then I was surprised …
Discussion: ProFootballTalk
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Can ‘Vice’ keep it real, after lauds from the media establishment's most establishmenty award-dealers?  —  Remember ten years ago, when Vice was mostly just this slick hipster rag that you'd pick up for free on the floor of some grimey record shop in the East Village, and maybe you'd skim through …
Discussion: Adweek
 
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Newspaper Guild of New York:
Thomson Reuters denies Pulitzer pursuit report, ‘Baron’ affirms it
Discussion: Talking Biz News
Associated Press:
Peabody Awards 2012: CNN, Al Jazeera, NPR, Colbert Among Winners
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Barnes & Noble agrees to carry some Amazon kids' books in its stores
Ruth Spencer / Guardian:
Fake tornado photos cause Twitter storm for Buzzfeed
Discussion: BuzzFeed
Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
Former L.A. Times Editor Slams Paper For ‘Blaming Customers, Competition, Technology’
Discussion: LA Observed
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
Amazon says its Kindle Owners' Lending Library drives 229% more sales in backlist e-book titles
Eric Deggans / Tampa Bay Times:
Uncomfortable Matt Lauer interview with Ryan Seacrest a collision of brands and offscreen talks
Discussion: Gothamist and The Raw Story
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Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:
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