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4:00 PM ET, June 21, 2012

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 Top News: 
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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Jim Romenesko:
David Remnick says New Yorker isn't dropping Jonah Lehrer  —  “There are all kinds of crimes and misdemeanors in this business,” New Yorker editor David Remnick tells Jon Friedman in an interview about Jonah Lehrer, “and if he were making things up or appropriating other people's work that's one level of crime.”
Discussion: Felix
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 …
Discussion: PopWatch, Poynter and TVNewser
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James Poniewozik / Time:
Why Didn't Morning TV Love Ann Curry?
Discussion: @keitholbermann
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
NBC Prepares to Replace Ann Curry on ‘Today’
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.
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Phone hacking: Met refers files on four more journalists to CPS  —  Scotland Yard has referred the files of four more journalists arrested on suspicion of phone hacking offences to the Crown Prosecution Service.  The CPS was passed the files for charging advice on Tuesday and is now considering …
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:   Leveson inquiry ‘will cost almost £6m’
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Dow Jones Shuts Down SmartMoney Magazine  —  SmartMoney, a magazine about managing your finances, isn't such a good investment in the eyes of its owner, Dow Jones & Co. The 20-year-old title is shutting down its print edition, its staff learned this afternoon.  It will survive in online form.
Guardian:
BBC's Mark Thompson in talks to head New York Times  —  Outgoing BBC director general Mark Thompson is in talks with the New York Times about becoming its new chief executive to fill the vacancy left after Janet Robinson was fired in December.  Discussions between Thompson and New York Times executives …
Discussion: FishbowlNY and Poynter
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 …
Discussion: Business Insider
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.
Dylan Byers / Politico:
NBC News to launch NBCNews.com  —  NBC News, which has long had to share its website with MSNBC at msnbc.msn.com, is finally set to get its own website.  —  NBC Universal has hired a new press representative and brand manager who tells POLITICO that her assignment will be to …
Megan McCarthy / Betabeat:
Twitter Having Issues, Info Junkies Try to Survive Without Steady Influx of Tiny Distractions  —  Screengrab from the ever-useful downforeveryoneorjustme.com  —  Twitter, everyone's favorite methadone drip of 140-character news and quips, has been down and unresponsive for the past hour.
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 …
Discussion: Poynter
 
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NY Daily News:
Some Morgan Stanley staffers say CNBC's in the Facebook blame game, too
Discussion: Mediaite and Inside Cable News
Harrisburg Patriot-News:
Jerry Sandusky trial: Subpoenaed Patriot-News reporter Sara Ganim refuses to testify
Donna Bowater / Telegraph:
Julian Assange: President of Ecuador Rafael Correa to rule on asylum decision today
Dave Winer:
News industry watches as Twitter moves toward the news system of the future
Kelsey Pospisil / American Journalism Review:
For BuzzFeed's New Washington Bureau, An Atypical Approach
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Julie Bosman / Media Decoder:
From Penguin, a Plan to Make Its E-Books Available in New York City Libraries
Discussion: GalleyCat, The Next Web and paidContent
Lev Grossman / entertainment.time.com:
The Department of Justice vs. the Publishers: Nobody Wins
Discussion: Melville House Books
Jim Edwards / Business Insider:
SOURCE: AOL Faces Brutal Choice On Patch — Close It Or Double Down
Discussion: Street Fight
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Philly publisher Bob Hall to staff: ‘We will probably experience another substantial loss this year’
Michael Powell / New York Times:
Andrew Sarris, Influential Film Critic, Dies at 83
 

 
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