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9:15 AM ET, May 22, 2012

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Steve Myers / Poynter:
NPR creates news applications team as part of strategy for ‘multimedia audio’  —  NPR announced to staff Monday that it is creating a team to build news applications and has hired the Chicago Tribune's Brian Boyer to lead it.  —  The announcement represents a big bet on news applications …
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Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:
NPR snags Brian Boyer to launch a news apps team (and they're hiring)  —  NPR has hired Brian Boyer, head of the Chicago Tribune's news apps team, to lead a new, similar team of data grinders and designers focused full-time on interactive storytelling.  That makes NPR the latest major outlet …
Discussion: CJR
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Huffington Post live video strategy takes shape with new hires, a new name  —  Huffington Post staffers got a progress report last week on the site's plans for live streaming video.  Originally billed during a splashy press event back in February as The Huffington Post Streaming Network …
Discussion: Poynter, NetNewsCheck Latest and Forbes
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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
New Twist in Lawsuit Over Huffington Post's Origins; ‘Cover-Up’ Alleged  —  Two Democratic consultants who claim they supplied Arianna Huffington and Ken Lerer with the idea for the Huffington Post have filed an amended version of their lawsuit, saying emails and other documents …
Discussion: paidContent
Erik Wemple:
New York Times public editor to leave in September  —  New York Times Public Editor Arthur Brisbane will leave his position on Sept. 1 of this year, completing a two-year term as in-house watchdog for the paper.  The departure means that Brisbane will not serve the one-year option on his contract …
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Why the Waterstones/Amazon deal could hurt Waterstones  —  UK bookstore chain Waterstones announced today that it's partnering with Amazon to sell the Kindle in its 294 stores starting this fall.  —  The deal is bad news for Barnes & Noble, which was rumored to be working with Waterstones on a deal of its own.
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Tim Carmody / The Verge:
Amazon's Kindle deal with Waterstones deflates Nook's global balloon
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Roger Ailes Talks Negotiations With ‘Non-Neutral’ AP, His ‘Fluke’ Career  —  Fox News CEO Roger Ailes gave a very candid interview to WOUB, a public radio station in Athens, Ohio, where he was in town to speak at his alma mater, Ohio University.  —  Among other topics (many of them Ohio-centric …
Discussion: Poynter
James Estrin / New York Times:
Caught Between the Protests and the Police  —  There were hundreds of photographers covering the Occupy Wall Street protests when Alex Arbuckle arrived at Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan last September.  —  Some were daily newspaper or wire service photographers, others …
Discussion: Free Press
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Time Warner Cable Head Sides With TV Networks Over Ad-Erasing Technology  —  BOSTON — The head of one of the country's biggest cable companies voiced his disapproval of the Dish Network's ad-erasing technology on Monday, aligning himself with television networks that are trying to squash the technology, called Auto Hop.
Discussion: AdAge and Multichannel
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
It's Official: Josh Elliott and Lara Spencer to Anchor ‘Good Afternoon America’  —  As TVNewser reported back in April, Josh Elliott and Lara Spencer will anchor an early-afternoon spinoff of ABC's “Good Morning America” called, appropriately, “Good Afternoon America.”
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Houghton Mifflin files Chapter 11 bankruptcy  —  May 21 (Reuters) - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishers Inc, whose textbooks have been a staple in American schoolhouses for decades, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday after agreeing with creditors to eliminate $3.1 billion of debt.
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Supreme Court to decide if journalists can sue over warrantless wiretaps  —  Lawsuit argues that 2008 FISA bill violates the Fourth Amendment.  —  The United States Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether a coalition of human rights groups and journalists has standing to challenge the 2008 FISA Amendments Act.
Discussion: New York Times
 
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
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