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7:20 AM ET, May 6, 2012

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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
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.
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Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
U.S. senator likely to be rebuffed in News Corp inquiry
Discussion: Associated Press
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Prismatic wants to be the newspaper for a digital age  —  What did the printed newspaper provide in its heyday as the information-delivery system of choice?  A collection of news and other interesting content, selected by knowledgeable editors from a wide range of sources, presented in an easy-to-scan format.
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 …
Craig Lambert / Harvard Magazine:
Meta-journalism  —  FOR MOST of the twentieth century, newspapers were a relatively stable industry.  Many operated essentially as local monopolies, so just standing pat they could make lots of money—e.g., a 20 to 30 percent profit margin from advertising sales and circulation …
Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
Al Jazeera's Webby Award-winning The Stream at one  —  The successes of The Stream, ‘a social media community with its daily TV show’, which was first broadcast on Al Jazeera English a year ago today  —  A year ago today Al Jazeera English was due to broadcast the first episode of a new social media TV show called The Stream.
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
A Twin Cities turnaround?  The Star Tribune carves a path back through growing audience  —  In 2009, the Star Tribune found itself on a dubious list: The 10 Most Endangered Newspapers in America.  That was the year Minnesota's largest daily entered into bankruptcy after rounds of cost-cutting …
Discussion: Wired
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
Huffington's Role Shrinks at AOL  —  Executive Says Shift Will Free Her to Focus on Her Namesake News Site as It Gears Up to Expand Abroad  —  Arianna Huffington acknowledged Thursday that her portfolio at AOL Inc. is being scaled back to include only the Huffington Post …
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:   Does AOL need HuffPo more than HuffPo needs AOL?
Jim Romenesko:
New York Times confirms non-newsroom layoffs  —  I received multiple tips late Thursday about layoffs at the New York Times, including this report: … Another tipster says of Freeman: He was “one of the two go-to guys on news-department legal matters, from story vetting to fighting First Amendment cases.
Carl Straumsheim / American Journalism Review:
Leaving the Newsroom to Launch Online Startups  —  Journalists embracing the entrepreneurial spirit.  Weds., May 2, 2012.  —  Editorial assistant Carl Straumsheim (@cfstraumsheim, cstraumsheim@ajr.umd.edu) is a graduate student at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism.
Jim Romenesko:
Juan Williams rethinks NPR  —  Juan Williams was quick to accept a few million bucks from Roger Ailes and jump to Fox News after NPR gave him the boot.  He then went on a non-stop NPR-bashing tour, accusing the radio network of being “elitist and white.”  —  Williams is singing a different tune …
Michael Nunez / International Business Times:
Google News Adds Realtime Coverage, Google Plus Discussion: Is The Information Provided Actually Relevant?  —  Google News has added features that will give readers realtime data surrounding news stories, but the company has failed to acknowledge Twitter and Facebook once again.
Discussion: SlashGear, The Verge and CNET
Business Week:
Discovery's Oprah Problem  —  Oprah Winfrey stood before advertisers and media executives in New York last month and offered a humble assessment of her effort to create OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.  Despite her popularity, the new cable channel attracts less than a 10th of the audience her syndicated TV show used to pull in.
Discussion: Company Town
 
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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, Globe and Mail and Folio
David Freedlander / Politicker:
The Editorial Plea: How The New York Times Decides Who Wins and Loses Local Elections
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