Mediagazer: Andy Coulson: I may have seen top-secret state material (Robert Booth/Guardian)

12:00 AM ET, May 11, 2012

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Murdoch may have had ‘selective amnesia’ over Thatcher meeting — Rupert Murdoch's lack of recollection of a meeting with Margaret Thatcher over his proposed acquisition of the Times in 1981 may have been a case of “selective amnesia”, the Leveson inquiry has heard.

Discussion: Press Gazette

Robert Booth / Guardian:
Andy Coulson: I may have seen top-secret state material

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Gordon Rayner / Telegraph:
Leveson Inquiry: David Cameron was personally involved in vetting Andy Coulson

Paul McNally / Journalism.co.uk:
IoS editor defends publishing Andy Coulson shares story

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Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:

Joe Weisenthal vs. the 24-Hour News Cycle — Joe Weisenthal wakes up around 4 a.m. most weekdays, afraid that in the five or six hours he has been sleeping, something happened that could move financial markets. His alarm is his cellphone, and after he silences it so that his wife can sleep …

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Felix Salmon:
The brilliant Joe Weisenthal

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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Will Time's Breastfeeding Cover Be Bad For Business? — Time's new cover. Click to expand. — It's safe to say the folks at Time magazine weren't caught unawares by the controversy already boiling up around their latest cover, which features an attractive 26-year-old mother breastfeeding her almost-four-year-old son.

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Dylan Stableford / Yahoo! News:
Time breastfeeding cover sparks controversy

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Jim Romenesko:

Will the Sun-Times buy the Chicago Tribune? — In his story about the Chicago Sun-Times parent in talks to buy the Chicago Reader for $3 million, Reader media writer Michael Miner notes that a Crain's story has “hinted” that Sun-Times owner Michael Ferro and his allies might be interested in taking over the Chicago Tribune.

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Sun-Times ownership of Chicago Reader would be unusual in alt-weekly world

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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Did the News Media Drive the Gay Marriage Debate? — On the Fox News Channel on Wednesday afternoon, the anchor Shepard Smith played a clip of President Obama expressing his support for gay marriage, then delivered this stinging assessment: “The President of the United States, now in the 21st century.”

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

It's Official: Digg Engineers Are Joining Washington Post's SocialCode — Another bit of closure for Digg as the company continues to look for a buyer of its technology and its site: its engineering team is joining SocialCode, the social media advertising and analytics subsidiary of the Washington Post Company.

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
It's official: Digg's tech team going to Washington Post Co.'s SocialCode

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Washington Post Held Mitt Romney Bullying Story In Print Due To Obama Gay Marriage News — NEW YORK — The Washington Post's Jason Horowitz shook up the political world Thursday morning with a deeply reported story about Mitt Romney's prep school days, an account that included disturbing recollections …

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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

TV Broadcasters Warn of Huge Industry Shakeup If Barry Diller's Aereo Isn't Stopped — After filing a copyright lawsuit against Aereo in March, broadcasters on Wednesday detailed why a preliminary injunction is warranted. — All of the major TV broadcasters are fighting a legal battle against Aereo …

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Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:

OMG, is Amazon going to kill tech blogs too? — Is Amazon seriously launching a tech blog that aims to compete with gadget blogs like the Verge and Gizmodo? According to a new report from “The Daily,” yes. The funny thing is that Amazon already has a gadget blog called End User …

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Fabiana Repaci / WWD:

Huffington Post to Launch in Italy — A LARGER WEB: The Italian edition of online news portal The Huffington Post is set to go live in September with Lucia Annunziata at its helm. Annunziata, a former president of Italy's State-owned television RAI and a seasoned journalist, will be editorial director of the new Web site.

Discussion: Mixed Media

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

DNAinfo cleans up in New York Press Club Awards — It's only about two years old, but Manhattan-based DNAinfo was one of the biggest winners in this year's New York Press Club awards. — The insurgent and curiously-named local news site picked up six wins in the annual journalism competition.

Daniel Frankel / paidContent:

Investment bank Evercore readies Variety for sale — Evercore Partners, which handled the sale of both Newsweek and BusinessWeek, is also overseeing the sale of Variety. — A Variety staff member who was briefed by management on the status of the sale told paidContent that 11 potential bidders have asked to see the deal book.

Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:

Kara Swisher's “Just Jokin'” Look At Buying TechCrunch — Then a full retraction yesterday: … Kara's tweets on the first story: — I founded TechCrunch, so my interest level in hearing the truth about anyone trying to buy it is high. So I called a few people to track down where the story came from.

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Richard Pyle / Associated Press:

Horst Faas, AP Combat Photographer, Dies at 79 — Horst Faas, a prize-winning combat photographer who carved out new standards for covering war with a camera and became one of the world's legendary photojournalists in nearly half a century with The Associated Press, died Thursday. He was 79.

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Tom Friedman elected co-chair of Pulitzer Prize — Apparently the Pulitzer Prize board does not go into hibernation immediately after handing out all of the newspaper industry's top journalism awards every April. Instead they keep themselves busy naming new members and shuffling around the current ones.

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