Mediagazer: ScraperWiki Tries to Turn Journalists Into Hackers (Eric Johnson/AllThingsD)

3:40 PM ET, June 25, 2012

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

The New York Times Gets All the News That's Fit to Print — All of It — Into Flipboard — Like the New York Times? Like Flipboard? Here's a corporate mashup for you: The Times' subscribers will soon be able read the entire paper on the aggregation/recommendation app.

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Nat Ives / AdAge:

Wired and The New Yorker Pull Back on Flipboard — Some magazines are developing Flipboard fatigue. Wired and The New Yorker are suspending efforts to sell ads on the platform and replacing their robust Flipboard feeds next month with spartan versions that summon their own websites if readers want whole articles.

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Nitasha Tiku / Betabeat:
TechCrunch Blogger Is Mad as Hell

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David Carr / New York Times:

HBO's ‘Newsroom’ as a Map for CNN — CNN, which has long struggled to locate an anchor for its 8 p.m. hour, may have finally found him. — Will McAvoy is handsome, forthright and authoritative, with just enough irascibility and skepticism to seem provocative.

Discussion: Capital New York, TVNewser, Guardian, entertainment.time.com and Chickaboomer

Dan Rather / Gawker:

Dan Rather Reviewed The Newsroom for Us and Liked It — A note from Dan Rather: I'm aware that my musings run counter to some of the more prominent early reviews in high-profile publications such as The New Yorker and the New York Times. But with all due respect (and I have a lot of it for those reviewers) …

Discussion: Poynter, Capital New York, The New York Observer and Globe and Mail

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Marcus Brauchli confirms Liz Spayd is leaving The Washington Post — In a memo, Washington Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli confirms a report by Politico's Dylan Byers that Liz Spayd is leaving the Washington Post. … Spayd is the first woman to be a managing editor at the Washington Post.

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Telegraph:

Julian Assange asylum bid: ambassador flies into Ecuador for talks with President Correa — Anna Alban is travelling to meet Ecuador's President Correa in the capital Quito, where she will personally brief him on Mr Assange's application. She will also hold a series of meetings at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Emily Allen / Daily Mail: Assange demands diplomatic assurances he will not be extradited to U.S. over WikiLeaks revelations …

Eric Johnson / AllThingsD:

ScraperWiki Tries to Turn Journalists Into Hackers — More and more, regular people are learning how to program: Codecademy is drawing hundreds of thousands of students; hackathons have become a seemingly everyday happening across tech-savvy cities like San Francisco; and now some are even calling …

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Ex-GOOD staffers will likely have funding for Tomorrow magazine issue within hours — Earlier this month the fired staff of GOOD magazine announced it would start a magazine called “Tomorrow.” Monday at around noon, the magazine's editors asked for donations to fund the first issue on the website Kickstarter.

Sydney Morning Herald:

Media shake-up rolls on: three Fairfax editors quit in one day — There was more shock news for Fairfax today, with the announcement that its top editors are standing down. The Sydney Morning Herald's publisher and editor-in-chief , Peter Fray, and first female editor, Amanda Wilson, announced they are leaving the company.

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

‘Journal’ rankles sister paper ‘Post’ with poachings — At the end of May, Stefanie Cohen, a features writer for the New York Post, told her bosses she would be leaving the paper to take a new job: Arts & entertainment reporter for The Wall Street Journal's Friday Journal section.

Gordon MacMillan / The Wall:

Is the Guardian planning to ditch print for digital future sooner rather than later? — There are rumours flying around that the Guardian is planning widespread redundancies and possibly even closing all or some of its print editions in a radical move to turn itself into an entirely digital operation in 2013.

Chris Francescani / Reuters:

Sandusky lawyers may use NBC tape error in appeal — (Reuters) - Lawyers for Jerry Sandusky sought a mistrial before his conviction for child sex abuse on the grounds that prosecutors showed jurors an inaccurate version of a bombshell NBC News interview with the former football coach …

Discussion: TVNewser, Mediaite, @deggans and The Daily Caller

Michael Hastings / BuzzFeed:

White House Warned Not To Delete “Leak” Emails — As the leak investigation into the unauthorized disclosures of classified information enters into its third week, White House staffers have been warned not to delete any emails or destroy other information that could be pertinent to investigators …

Ian Burrell / The Independent:

Shock at the BBC as reporters are told to start making money — There are fears for the future editorial independence of the BBC after news journalists were ordered to come up with money-generating ideas for the corporation, a leaked email reveals. BBC bosses have told reporters …

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