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8:50 PM ET, May 6, 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.
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.
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
Felix Salmon:
Why is an FT subscription so expensive?  —  Wired has a big article on A/B testing this month, which makes a good point: … But it's not just web pages that change with A/B testing, it's prices, too.  And Exhibit A in this regard is the Financial Times.  Go to this page …
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
A Twin Cities turnaround? The Star Tribune carves a path back through growing audience
Discussion: Wired
Carl Straumsheim / American Journalism Review:
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Michael Nunez / International Business Times:
Google News Adds Realtime Coverage, Google Plus Discussion: Is The Information Provided Actually Relevant?
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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
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Samantha Critchell / Associated Press:
Vogue bans too-skinny models from its pages
Discussion: Daily Mail, Folio and Globe and Mail
David Freedlander / Politicker:
The Editorial Plea: How The New York Times Decides Who Wins and Loses Local Elections
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Vice Throws Boozy Upfront With WPP, Leaks Bloomberg Talks
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