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11:00 AM ET, June 12, 2012

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Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online:
Why the World's Most Perfect News Tweet Is Kind of Boring  —  Researchers have found a way to predict a tweet's popularity — with an astounding 84 percent accuracy.  —  Here, per one algorithm, is the Platonic version of the news tweet: … If that seems a little dull for Twitter Perfection ... well, that's the point.
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Steve Myers / Poynter:
Biggest news sources on Google News aren't shared the most on Twitter  —  Researchers who tried to figure out what factors influence a news story's popularity on Twitter found that the news sources which are shared the most aren't the ones featured most prominently on Google News.
Reuters:
DirecTV could also deploy ad skip technology  —  DirecTV Group (DTV.O), the largest U.S. satellite TV operator, could deploy technology that would enable its millions of subscribers to automatically skip television advertising, its top executive said on Monday.
Discussion: Forbes, CNET and VentureBeat
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Layoffs underway at Times-Picayune as New Orleans, Alabama journalists learn about their futures with Advance  —  Employees at The Times-Picayune in New Orleans and Advance Publications' papers in Birmingham, Mobile and Huntsville, Ala., have started to learn if they'll have jobs …
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Jaquetta White / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Times-Picayune advertisers voice opposition to newspaper's planned changes
Discussion: Bayoubuzz.com
Dan Barry / New York Times:
All the News That's Fit to Screen: Movies About Journalism  —  BACK when paper and ink still mattered, I fell into a job as a nightside reporter at The Providence Journal, in the habitually newsworthy state of Rhode Island.  This was many years ago, before exercise, sobriety and good hygiene …
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Random House promotes digital pres. Madeline McIntosh to COO  —  Random House has promoted Madeline McIntosh, president of sales, digital and operations, to the position of chief operating officer, effective immediately.  McIntosh was Amazon's director of Kindle content acquisition for Europe from 2008 to 2009, based in Luxembourg.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Looking for the Apple TV?  Look in Front of You.  —  Nope, still no Apple TV.  —  Apple's WWDC presentation took nearly two hours, and none of that time was devoted to the product lots of smart people insist is going to show up one day, someday.  —  Still, look a little closer …
Discussion: MediaNama and Forbes
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Press Gazette:
Murdoch ‘asked Major to change policy on Europe’  —  Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch asked former Tory prime minister John Major to change policy on Europe, he told the Leveson Inquiry into press standards today.  Murdoch - owner of The Sun and The Times - warned that without change his newspapers …
Jon Henley / Guardian:
Greek journalists return to work unpaid for what may be paper's last edition  —  Eleftherotypia was Greece's second-biggest newspaper, a centre-left daily with a proud tradition of independent reporting and opinion.  Founded after the fall of the military dictatorship in 1974, its name means “freedom of the press”.
Discussion: Media Decoder
Jack Shafer:
What happens to Tribune after bankruptcy?  —  Choking softly on the wad of debt “rescuer” Sam Zell fed it, Tribune Co checked into a Wilmington, Delaware, bankruptcy court at the end of 2008.  Now newly slimmed, especially after the payment of $410 million in legal and other professional fees …
Discussion: LA Observed
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
CQ, Roll Call Advance Towards Merger  —  The Washington, D.C., media market continues to churn as onetime rivals CQ and Roll Call take steps toward a merger of their two Capital Hill publications.  —  The process was set in motion in 2009, when The Economist Group bought CQ and merged …
Jim Romenesko:
Ed Wasserman is the new dean of Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism  —  UC Berkeley hasn't made the announcement yet, but the head of Washington and Lee's journalism and mass communication department has told colleagues that Ed Wasserman is the new dean of Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.
 
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Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:
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Discussion: Gawker
The Huffington Post:
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Joy Behar Is Reviving Her Talk Show, This Time for Current TV
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Michaelle Bond / American Journalism Review:
A New Executive Director for ASNE
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Phone hacking: Met refers files on five journalists to CPS
Discussion: Reuters
Will Sommer / Washington City Paper:
TBD Loses Its Last Employee
Discussion: Street Fight
Edward Helmore / Guardian:
Vogue editor helps Obama campaign as rumours grow of plum diplomatic post
Discussion: PAPERMAG, ABCNEWS and Fashionista
Amy Davidson / The New Yorker:
The President's Press Problem
Discussion: Mediaite