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7:15 AM ET, May 7, 2012

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Bill Keller / New York Times:
Murdoch's Pride Is America's Poison  —  ROGER AILES is (a) the genius who midwifed the astoundingly successful Fox News; (b) the sharpest thorn in the side of Barack Obama; and (c) the most important surviving officer in Rupert Murdoch's global media army.  —  You can see why he would be a great subject for a biography.
Discussion: Commentary Magazine and Mediaite
David Carr / New York Times:
The Cozy Compliance of the News Corp. Board  —  If you sat on the board of a company that was raked over the coals by a British parliamentary committee in a 121-page document, accused of a pattern of corporate misconduct that included widespread phone hacking and an ensuing cover-up by senior officials …
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Yesterday The Boston Globe ended all your tomorrows  —  The Boston Globe has killed yesterday, today, and tomorrow.  —  In an announcement on BostonGlobe.com's Insiders blog, Charles Mansbach, the Globe's Page 1 editor, says the paper is doing away with the convention of using those terms in stories.
Discussion: @counternotions
Jay Rosen / Quote and Comment:
Tom Brokaw blasts the White House Correspondents Association dinner.  —  On Meet the Press Sunday, Tom Brokaw of NBC News, an iconic figure in broadcast journalism, ripped into the annual ritual that media people in DC call “the prom,” hoping that their gentle ridicule of it will defuse …
Matthieu Aikins / CJR:
How a filmmaker accidentally gave up his sources to Syrian spooks  —  How a filmmaker accidentally gave up his sources to Syrian spooks  —  Last fall, “Kardokh,” a 25-year-old dissident and computer expert in the Syrian capital of Damascus, met with British journalist and filmmaker Sean McAllister.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
‘60 Minutes’ Gets Younger, and Its Viewers Do Too  —  The oldest newsmagazine on television, “60 Minutes,” might have figured out how to halt the aging process.  —  Purposefully but almost imperceptibly, the CBS News program, the most popular of its genre, has become younger in recent years.
Rani Molla / The Content Strategist:
AP's Carvin Says Social Media Can Make Journalism Better  —  This post is part of the Social Media Editor Series, featuring interviews with social media editors from news organizations about what they do and where they see social media in journalism going.  —  Eric Carvin, who became …
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Twitter, World War II and the death of official secrets  —  We've had plenty of examples over the past couple of years of how Twitter can be used to break news, especially news that official sources don't want revealed, and we got another one this week when the Obama administration tried …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Stijn Debrouwere / stdout.be:
FUNGIBLE  —  We don't realize how much news media has changed in the past fifteen years.  We really don't.  I'm not talking about digital first or about blogging or about data journalism or the mobile web or the curation craze.  Yes, journalism has evolved and is better for it.  I'm talking beyond that.
Adam Clark Estes / The Atlantic Wire:
Jenna Wortham: What I Read  —  How do people deal with the torrent of information pouring down on us all?  What sources can't they live without?  We regularly reach out to prominent figures in media, entertainment, politics, the arts and the literary world, to hear their answers.
Discussion: Snarkmarket
James Hanning / The Independent:
IoS exclusive: Revealed - Cameron's secret summit with News Corp  —  David Cameron agreed to a meeting with one of Rupert Murdoch's senior executives that was arranged by the lobbyist now at the centre of the Jeremy Hunt scandal, The Independent on Sunday has learnt.
Discussion: Guardian
Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:
When a stream is just a trickle: Last Great Thing is one item a day, no archives  —  Ever wish you could reduce the fire hose to a stream?  The stream to a trickle?  —  Every day for a month, the News.me team is asking someone smart or interesting or Internet-famous to share the Last Great Thing …
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Does AOL need HuffPo more than HuffPo needs AOL?  —  The plot seems to be thickening at AOL, at least when it comes to Arianna Huffington's role at the former portal.  She confirmed to the Wall Street Journal that her role within the company has been reduced, something that was the subject …
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Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
Al Jazeera's Webby Award-winning The Stream at one
Michael Nunez / International Business Times:
Google News Adds Realtime Coverage, Google Plus Discussion: Is The Information Provided Actually Relevant?
Discussion: SlashGear and The Verge
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Business Week:
Discovery's Oprah Problem
Discussion: Company Town
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
BBC News website stalwart Tim Weber to leave corporation after 20 years
Discussion: The Next Web
Samantha Critchell / Associated Press:
Vogue bans too-skinny models from its pages
Discussion: Daily Mail, Folio and Globe and Mail