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8:05 PM ET, June 26, 2012

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Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
CNN Hits 21-Year Ratings Low in Second Quarter  —  Battered by a series of rough weeks and big losses for Anderson Cooper and Piers Morgan, the cable news network sinks with total viewers and in the coveted adults 25-to-54 demo.  —  After several months of bad ratings news for CNN …
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Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
Without News, CNN Is Without Viewers  —  The news for CNN has been bad for a long time, but it got especially bad in the second quarter of this year.  Ratings for the network's prime-time shows plunged by 40 percent from a year ago, and the network's performance was its worst ever for a second quarter.
Dylan Byers / Politico:   What's wrong at CNN
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
News Corp statement confirms spin-off plan under consideration  —  Following numerous reports that News Corp is thinking of spinning off its publishing operations, the company issued a short statement that it is “considering a restructuring to separate its business into two distinct public companies.”
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Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:
Anxious News Corp. Editors Arrive in New York to Discuss Corporate Split
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Why a reluctant Murdoch is splitting up News Corp and what it means
Discussion: Guardian, DealBook and @lisaocarroll
Bloomberg:
News Corp. Is Said To Work With Goldman Sachs On Breakup Plans
Discussion: The New York Observer
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Two Questions for Rupert Murdoch
Discussion: Guardian, WebProNews and paidContent
Craig Silverman / Poynter:
Hearst editor acknowledges New Canaan News still searching for fabricated stories  —  Ashley Varese does not want to talk about Paresh Jha.  —  Varese is the editor of the New Canaan News, a small weekly paper owned by Hearst that last week admitted fired staff reporter Jha …
Discussion: @jackshafer
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Craig Silverman / Poynter:
Hearst serial fabricator Paresh Jha may have made up more stories than Stephen Glass
Discussion: TERI BUHL and FishbowlNY
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Wall Street Journal intern fired for fabricating sources  —  Liane Membis' internship with The Wall Street Journal is at an end, an editor's note on an article she wrote says: … Membis' article is still available on Talking Biz News.  Some of the people Membis claimed to interview in the piece …
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Content going ‘everywhere’: WSJ extends premium subscriptions to Pulse newsreader  —  One day after The New York Times announced an “NYT Everywhere” strategy that will extend subscriber content to Flipboard, The Wall Street Journal stepped up its own “Journal Everywhere” …
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Pulse vs. Flipboard: Which will win, subscriptions or ads?
Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:
Liz Smith Publishes Nora Ephron Obit, TMZ Reports She Is Alive But ‘Gravely Ill’  —  Tuesday afternoon, columnist Liz Smith published a wowOwow post seemingly eulogizing writer and director Nora Ephron.  The post soon spread across the web, prompting many to note that there were no other reports of Ephron's passing.
Bill Dedman / MSNBC:
Bloomberg TV's ads make false claim to Pulitzer nomination for anchor Liu  —  NEW YORK — Bloomberg Television has a new ad campaign in the New York City area, touting the journalistic credentials of its morning anchor, Betty Liu.  “PULITZER PRIZE-NOMINATED,” the ads shout at commuters on trains in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Redesigned Chicago Tribune website to wall off some content  —  Users will need to become digital members to see stories from newspaper  —  The Chicago Tribune is launching a redesigned website that will give it the ability to sell digital subscriptions.  —  Beginning this week …
Discussion: paidContent and The Next Web
Carl Nolte / San Francisco Chronicle:
George Hearst Jr. - Hearst Corp. chairman - dies  —  George R. Hearst Jr., chairman of the board of the Hearst Corp., died Monday at Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto of complications following a stroke.  Mr. Hearst, who became ill June 16 at his ranch home in Paso Robles (San Luis Obispo County), was 84.
Jim Romenesko:
Patch puts pressure on local editors  —  My reliable source on Patch matters reports that demands on local editors are growing.  “Among other mandates, Local Editors now must have seven posts each day — that's including weekends — and blog posts no longer count toward that total,” he writes.
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Gannett says paywalls are generating strong revenue, despite circulation declines  —  Gannett says its digital subscription plan, paired with metered paywalls, is now active in 38 of the company's 80 community newspaper markets.  Gannett executives provided updates in a presentation last week …
Discussion: Gannett Blog
Foster Kamer / New York Observer:
New York Times' Crosswords Going Premium-Premium, Even for Subscribers  —  It's like TimesSelect returned with a vengeance, basically.  —  What's another seven-letter word for premium?  —  Right now, some pissed-off puzzle-solving New York Times home subscribers are probably answering …
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘Times’ will end partnerships with N.Y.U., CUNY on hyperlocal blogs  —  The New York Times' three-year-old experiment in hyperlocal community journalism is coming to an end—for now, at least.  The Times has decided to terminate its collaborations with the journalism schools of New York University …
Discussion: NYConvergence.com
 
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