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1:15 AM ET, June 20, 2012

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Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine:
New Yorker Writer Jonah Lehrer Plagiarizes Himself Repeatedly [Update]  —  Did you ever pull that old college trick where you wrote the same paper for two classes?  It's frowned upon, but hard to get caught.  Not so on the Internet: New Yorker staffer Jonah Lehrer, who just moved over from Wired …
Discussion: Poynter and MetaFilter
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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Jonah Lehrer, self-borrowing and the problem with “big ideas”  —  Newly appointed New Yorker staff writer Jonah Lehrer — author of the bestselling books “Imagine,” “How We Decide” and “Proust Was a Neuroscientist” and a former editor at Wired — has been recycling a bunch of his own content in pieces for various publishers.
Discussion: Slate
Jim Romenesko:
Jonah Lehrer's NewYorker.com ‘Smart People’ post borrows from earlier WSJ piece  —  Last Tuesday, The New Yorker posted Jonah Lehrer's “Why Smart People Are Stupid.”  It begins this way: Jonah Lehrer Here's a simple arithmetic question: A bat and ball cost a dollar and ten cents.
Discussion: Gawker, Politico and Poynter
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Knight Foundation diversifies its journalism investments again with its new Prototype Fund  —  The Knight Foundation is broadening its funding mechanisms again with the addition of the Knight Prototype Fund.  Announced yesterday at the MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference, the prototype fund will be a smaller …
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Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Tor Project helps journalists and whistleblowers go online without leaving a trace
Discussion: The Next Web
Reuters:
Ecuador says WikiLeaks' Assange seeks asylum  —  (Reuters) - WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange has asked for political asylum in Ecuador and officials in the South American nation are considering his request, its foreign minister said on Tuesday.  —  “Ecuador is studying and analyzing the request …
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Embassy of Ecuador in London:
Statement on Julian Assange
Discussion: Daily Dot
Glenn Peoples / Billboard.Biz:
What's Going on With Vevo's Numbers?  —  Music video network Vevo has helped revolutionize online video, has been the subject of IPO rumors and is reported to be wooing investments from Google and Facebook.  —  But exactly what investors would get is a bit fuzzy to outsiders.
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Greg Sandoval / CNET:
Publishers gain ground on music-video payday  —  Music videos are making a comeback with help from Vevo and YouTube.  Indie music publishers want their fair share.  —  Follow @sandoCNET  —  Songwriters and music publishers don't want to get left out of the online music-video boom.
Discussion: paidContent and MediaPost
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
New York Post Pivots On iPad Strategy, Dropping Paywall  —  This person might have chosen to read the New York Post with his coffee, if it were free on the iPad, and in Swedish.  (Photo credit: Wikipedia)  —  The “most egregious paywall yet” is how one tech writer described the system introduced …
Discussion: NY Convergence
Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:
NPR Intern Gets an Earful After Blogging About 11,000 Songs, Almost None Paid For  —  When it comes to digital music, can the audience be shamed into doing the right thing?  That is, even if we all agreed that it was the “right thing” for musicians to be paid each time someone listened to their music, would it make any difference?
Larry McShane / NY Daily News:
Alec Baldwin punches Daily News photographer after obtaining marriage license in New York  —  For his second upcoming wedding, perennial hothead Alec Baldwin tried to make a Daily News photographer black and blue.  The volatile “30 Rock” star punched lensman Marcus Santos outside …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
MPAA / RIAA Ponder Suing Persistent BitTorrent Pirates  —  Later this year, the Center for Copyright Information (CCI) will start to track down ‘pirates’ as part of an agreement all major U.S. Internet providers struck with the MPAA and RIAA.  —  The parties agreed on a system through …
Discussion: Plagiarism Today
Craig Silverman / Poynter:
Why Twitter resists a correction function & why it should build one anyway  —  It's a question that pops up every once in a while among journalists and others: What would a useful Twitter correction tool look like?  —  Here at Poynter, we hosted two online chats about a Twitter correction tool a little more than a year ago.
BBC:
Leveson asks for comments over ‘quit’ claims  —  Lord Justice Leveson has asked “core participants” to his inquiry for their comments on a newspaper story which claimed he had threatened to quit.  The Mail on Sunday said he had made his threat following comments by Education Secretary Michael Gove.
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Tom Harper / London Evening Standard:
Exclusive: Leveson questioned David Cameron's support for his inquiry
Discussion: New York Times
 
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