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3:25 PM ET, May 3, 2012

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson to face Leveson inquiry  —  Andy Coulson, David Cameron's former spin doctor, is to appear at the Leveson inquiry next week along with Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International.  Coulson is appearing on Thursday, along …
Discussion: Journalism.co.uk
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Tom Watson accuses Louise Mensch of tabling pro-Murdoch amendments  —  Labour MP Tom Watson has accused Conservative select committee colleague Louise Mensch of tabling amendments that would have “exonerated” James Murdoch in its controversial phone hacking report following a personal intervention …
Discussion: @luciawalker5
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
News Corporation was given private select committee details, suggests Tom Watson
Discussion: @lisaocarroll
Tom Harper / London Evening Standard:
Ex-Yard officer arrested in dawn raid over News International bribery claim
Discussion: Guardian
David Carr / Media Decoder:
Deconstructing Parliament's Loquacious Condemnation of News Corporation
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Josh Smith / Tech Daily Dose:
Rockefeller Asks For News Corp. Scandal Details
Chris Greenberg / The Huffington Post:
Sarah Phillips Scandal: Ex-ESPN Columnist's Story Could Have Wide Ramifications  —  When Deadspin broke a story about ESPN contributor Sarah Phillips allegedly being involved in Internet scams and perhaps even using a false identity, it sent shockwaves through much of the sports media world, and Phillips lost her job soon after.
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John Koblin / Deadspin:   Meet Nilesh Prasad, Sarah Phillips's Scamming Partner And Supposed “Puppetmaster”
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Romney Woos Conservative Media In Private Meeting  —  NEW YORK — In an effort to reach out to conservative media, presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney and wife Ann met for two hours Wednesday with several dozen conservative bloggers, reporters and columnists in an off-the-record gathering …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
News Orgs Balk At Romney Campaign Deciding Press Pool Membership  —  NEW YORK — News organizations pushed back Wednesday after Mitt Romney's campaign decided the website BuzzFeed should be excluded from a rotating press pool, a group in which one member covers an event and produces a report shared among others in the pool.
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers:   Romney campaign backs off... BuzzFeed to stay in the Romney press pool...
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
CNN Ratings Decline Stirs Worries  —  That is what a longtime CNN employee theorized last year, during one of the channel's predictable defeats in the Nielsen ratings.  When elections and explosions happen, people tune in to CNN, the same way they hurry to a hospital when they think they are having a heart attack.
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Discovery Channel Gets a Web Video Arm, Courtesy of Revision 3  —  Web video is supposed to disrupt cable TV.  And maybe it will, one day.  In the meantime, the cable guys are doing just fine.  —  Here's a proof point: The Discovery Channel has purchased Revision3, a Web video startup …
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
ProPublica's Stephen Engelberg named to Pulitzer board (after ProPublica wins two of them)  —  The Pulitzer Prize board has a new member.  Columbia University, which administers the annual journalism awards, announced today that Stephen Engelberg, managing editor of ProPublica, has joined the board.
Los Angeles Times:
Billionaire Eli Broad signals interest in buying L.A. Times  —  Five years after his partnership lost a bid to buy Tribune Co.and the Los Angeles Times, billionaire businessman Eli Broad said he remains interested in joining with others to restore local ownership to The Times.
Discussion: The Wrap, LA Observed and The Informer
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Murdoch's Daily adds iPhone app: lower price, some free stories  —  The Daily, which launched in early 2011 as a tablet tabloid available only on the iPad, finally is adding an iPhone edition, with Android handsets to follow.  The new app includes some free stories but readers will have to subscribe …
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Craig Silverman / Poynter:
How Politico can fix its mistake about Obama book  —  If an error in your reporting gives birth to a false rumor, do you have a responsibility to knock down that rumor?  —  Questions like this are being pondered more than ever before in newsrooms.  When do journalists have a responsibility …
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Nielsen Reports a Decline in Television Viewing  —  The number of American households with access to a television set and a TV signal is shrinking for the second year in a row.  —  The data, released by The Nielsen Company on Thursday morning, is sure to be pored over by television …
 
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Discussion: Los Angeles Times
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Karen McVeigh / Guardian:
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Jared Malsin / CJR:
Fewer journo arrests at latest OWS push
Discussion: New York Times
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Another Misleading Edit Costs Another NBC News Employee Her Job
Discussion: mediabistro.com and Mediaite
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Wall Street Journal:
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