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12:50 PM ET, May 7, 2012

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Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Secret Meeting Has ‘Washington Post’ Buzzing  —  Washington Post staffers are buzzing about a secret meeting between some 10 big-name Post journalists including Dana Priest, David Finkel and Carol Leonnig, and Steve Hills, the president and gm of the newspaper.
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 …
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James Hanning / The Independent:   IoS exclusive: Revealed - Cameron's secret summit with News Corp
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.
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
From ABC News and Univision, an English-Language Channel for Hispanics  —  The Walt Disney Company's ABC News division and Univision have tentatively agreed to create an English-language cable television channel for Hispanics in the United States.  —  The companies, which will each own 50 percent …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Google Gets Deeper Into the Content Business, By Putting Money Into Machinima  —  Google has been handing out money to video-makers so they'll make more stuff for YouTube.  Now it's putting money into a video-maker itself.  The search giant is set to invest in Machinima …
Jason Pontin / Technology Review:
Why Publishers Don't Like Apps  —  By the time Apple released the iPad in April of 2010, just four months after Steve Jobs first announced his “magical and revolutionary” new machines in San Francisco, traditional publishers had been overtaken by a collective delusion.
Discussion: Poynter, GigaOM, Beet.TV and The Huffington Post, Thanks:@ilamont
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.
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Exclusive: Publisher sues Tumblr over porn pics  —  It's finally happened.  In a case with big implications for the booming market in photo-sharing, a publisher is suing popular blogging site Tumblr for copyright infringement.  —  In a complaint filed Friday in Manhattan …
Discussion: @producermatthew
Julie Moos / Poynter:
How 2 twentysomething journalists brought down a corrupt Kentucky sheriff  —  Samantha Swindler, then 27, had been managing editor of the Corbin (Ky.) Times-Tribune for about three years when she asked 20-year-old Adam Sulfridge to report on a corrupt sheriff, Lawrence Hodge, who was involved in trading guns, drugs and favors.
Discussion: @dancow
Isabel Kershner / New York Times:
Arab Spring Spurs Palestinian Journalists to Test Free Speech Limits  —  RAMALLAH, West Bank — Yousef Shayeb, 37, a Palestinian journalist from Ramallah, published an article in a Jordanian newspaper this year charging officials at the Palestinian diplomatic mission in Paris with corruption and espionage.
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.
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Himmelman: WashPost spiked profile on me  —  Editors at the Washington Post have killed a profile about Jeff Himmelman - a former researcher for Bob Woodward and the author of the new, controversial Ben Bradlee biography in which the legendary editor doubts some aspects of Woodward's Watergate reporting …
 
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Martin Chulov / Guardian:
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Rani Molla / The Content Strategist:
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
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