Mediagazer: Julian Assange: President of Ecuador Rafael Correa to rule on asylum decision today (Donna Bowater/Telegraph)

9:25 AM ET, June 21, 2012

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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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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

NBC Made Contingency Plans, but Ann Curry Reports to Work at ‘Today’ — For a couple of hours on Wednesday, as Ann Curry's negotiations to leave the “Today” show were first reported publicly, NBC News officials believed that she would not be coming into work Thursday morning …

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

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

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Felix Salmon / CJR:
How Jonah Lehrer should blog

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

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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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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 …

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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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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

After Divorcing Sports Illustrated, Turner Wants to Hook Up With Bleacher Report — Bleacher Report and Turner, which have been circling each other for months, are edging closer to a deal. People familiar with both companies say they haven't agreed on final terms, but are now negotiating exclusively …

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

‘Fox & Friends’ Finds Ratings and Controversy — When it comes to sitting for interviews Mitt Romney is not usually a willing and eager subject. But there is one invitation he rarely turns down. — “Fox & Friends” has had Mr. Romney as a guest 21 times in the last year.

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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 …

Katherine Rushton / Telegraph:

News Corp directors ‘allowed hacking cover up’ — News Corporation's directors facilitated a “cover-up” of phone hacking and bribery at the News of the World and allowed the company to forge ahead with a “whitewash” inquiry, a US lawsuit has claimed.

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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