Mediagazer: Philly publisher Bob Hall to staff: ‘We will probably experience another substantial loss this year’ (Andrew Beaujon/Poynter)

8:30 AM ET, June 21, 2012

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Jennifer Schuessler / ArtsBeat:

Lehrer Apologizes for Recycling Work, While New Yorker Says It Won't Happen Again — The science writer Jonah Lehrer, author of the runaway bestseller “Imagine: How Creativity Works,” has become the latest high-profile journalist to be caught up in a plagiarism scandal …

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Jack Shafer:

Jonah Lehrer's recycling business — “Write every piece three times,” the late Richard Strout used to advise journalists who craved advancement in the profession. — Strout, who wrote the New Republic's TRB column for four decades and worked 60 years as a Washington correspondent …

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Craig Silverman / Poynter:
Jonah Lehrer is the latest target of Google Game, crowdsourced investigation

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Jim Romenesko:
Jonah Lehrer ‘understands he made a serious mistake’

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Felix Salmon / CJR:
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Jacob Silverman / The Daily Beast:
Jonah Lehrer's ‘Self-Plagiarism’ Scandal Rocks The New Yorker

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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

NBC Prepares to Replace Ann Curry on ‘Today’ — NBC executives are readying a plan to replace Ann Curry on the “Today” show, only a year after she became the co-host of the iconic franchise. The planning — which is taking place in secret and has not been finalized …

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Philly publisher Bob Hall to staff: ‘We will probably experience another substantial loss this year’ — In a memo to staff of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com, returning Philadelphia Media Network publisher Bob Hall says a report of $4 million profit didn't take into account …

Discussion: Erik Wemple and The Newspaper Guild

Michael Powell / New York Times:

Andrew Sarris, Influential Film Critic, Dies at 83 — Andrew Sarris, one of the nation's most influential film critics and a champion of auteur theory, which holds that a director's voice is central to great filmmaking, died on Wednesday morning in Manhattan. He was 83.

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Donna Bowater / Telegraph:

Julian Assange: President of Ecuador Rafael Correa to rule on asylum decision today — The President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, is expected to give instructions on the WikiLeaks founder's application today. Assange, 40, spent a second night at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London …

James Ball / Guardian:
Julian Assange's drama: in the third act, we still don't know what the story is

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Dave Winer:

News industry watches as Twitter moves toward the news system of the future — Twitter will now include, for a story from a partner: — 1. The headline. — 2. A brief synopsis. — 3. A photo or illustration. — 4. A link to the full article. — 5. A link to subscribe to the source (not the tweeter).

Harrisburg Patriot-News:

Jerry Sandusky trial: Subpoenaed Patriot-News reporter Sara Ganim refuses to testify — BELLEFONTE — Despite what jurors were told Wednesday, Sara Ganim would have refused to answer questions on the stand in the Jerry Sandusky trial. View full sizeChris Knight Sara Ganim The Patriot-News reporter …

Jim Edwards / Business Insider:

SOURCE: AOL Faces Brutal Choice On Patch — Close It Or Double Down — AOL CEO Tim Armstrong has a simple but brutal choice to make about Patch, a source close to the ad sales side of the local news business told us over lunch recently: Ditch it or double down and take the thing national …

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Earl J. Wilkinson / INMA:

What rapid changes in U.S. newspapers in past 30 days mean to us all — The United States newspaper industry has been re-made so rapidly in the past 30 days that it is difficult to make sense of it all. It is a staggering amount of change crammed into a short period of time …

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Kelsey Pospisil / American Journalism Review:

For BuzzFeed's New Washington Bureau, An Atypical Approach — It's no secret that BuzzFeed is hardly a traditional news organization. The site made its name as the place to go to get a handle on viral Internet memes. But late last year it added original political content to its menu.

Julie Bosman / Media Decoder:

From Penguin, a Plan to Make Its E-Books Available in New York City Libraries — In the past year, Penguin Group USA has slowly pulled away from the library e-book market. Now it is tiptoeing back in. — The publisher is working with New York City libraries and 3M on a pilot program …

Guardian:

Mail on Sunday journalist who claimed Leveson threatened to quit to appear at inquiry — The journalist responsible for a Mail on Sunday story which claimed Lord Justice Leveson had threatened to quit over comments made by a government minister is expected to appear before the inquiry next week.

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