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12:40 PM ET, June 28, 2012

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Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
CNN, Fox News err in covering today's Supreme Court health care ruling  —  The Supreme Court announced its ruling on the Affordable Care Act around 10:15 a.m. EST. CNN mistakenly reported that the individual mandate was struck down.  Screenshots show the mistake and the subsequent change.
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Jim Romenesko:
AP orders staff to stop taunting news outlets for getting health care ruling wrong  —  An Associated Press editor tells staff that taunting other news outlets is “not the impression we want to reflect as an organization.  Let our reporting take the lead.”
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Mediaite
Jim Romenesko:
Bloomberg News: We were first with health care ruling  —  A Bloomberg News PR person writes: Just wanted to reach out about your post about the coverage of today's Supreme Court health care ruling.  You reference an email that notes that the AP first reported the decision — by our records …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
CNN issues statement on SCOTUS mistake  —  The official statement from CNN regarding this morning's inaccurate report on the Supreme Court's healthcare ruling: … No word from Fox News, yet.
Jim Romenesko:
‘CNN fails badly on health care decision’  —  An AP employee writes in email: CNN fails badly on SCOTUS health care decision.  AP first.  Scotusblog saying complicated.  CNN says overturned.  Win AP.  Big Fail CNN.  Perhaps they shouldn't have dropped AP to save money.  Accuracy counts.
Discussion: New York Times and Media Nation
Michael Hastings / BuzzFeed:
CNN News Staffers Revolt Over Blown Coverage
Discussion: @producermatthew
Erik Wemple:   CNN correction on health-care ruling: Insane
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Rupert Murdoch Announces The News Corp. Divorce: The Full Memo  —  Here's Rupert Murdoch's official “internal” announcement explaining the News Corp. split.  The important stuff: Murdoch will remain CEO of both the publishing business and the entertainment business.  Chase Carey will be COO of the entertainment business.
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch denies News Corp split is linked to phone-hacking scandal  —  Rupert Murdoch has dismissed suggestions that splitting News Corporation into separately listed publishing and entertainment companies has anything to do with the phone-hacking scandal that led to the closure of News of the World.
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
News Corp confirms split as Rupert Murdoch steps back from papers
Discussion: Media Week and paidContent
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
What a News Corp. Split Could Mean for Editorial Coverage
Susan Page / USA Today:
‘Today’ co-host Ann Curry will bid farewell today  —  Ann Curry's voice chokes when she talks about saying goodbye this morning on NBC's Today show, years earlier than she had hoped.  —  It's “going to be a bit of a tough day,” she told USA TODAY in a 40-minute phone interview Wednesday …
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Merrill Knox / TVNewser:
Ann Curry Says Emotional Goodbye to ‘Today’: ‘This Is Not as I Expected to Ever Leave This Couch’  —  After 15 years on the “Today,” co-host Ann Curry is exiting the NBC morning show, she announced at the close of this morning's broadcast.  “This is not easy to say, but today …
Discussion: AdAge, Broadcasting & Cable and TVSpy
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Operation Elveden: Police arrest man on suspicion of corruption  —  A former NHS employee has been arrested by Scotland Yard officers investigating allegations of inappropriate payments by newspapers to police and public officials.  The 31-year-old man was arrested about 6am on Thursday …
Discussion: Press Gazette
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Sandra Laville / Guardian:
Senior police officer under investigation over hacking of Milly Dowler's phone  —  The second most senior officer at Surrey police is being investigated by the Independent Police Complaints Commission over claims he failed to act when he discovered the News of the World had hacked Milly Dowler's phone.
Jim Romenesko:
Patch Local Editor is having fun  —  From NAME WITHHELD AT HIS REQUEST: I'm a Local Editor at Patch and I've found the job to be, at times, cushier than my previous newsroom job at a paper.  The compensation is better, benefits better and the job is flat-out more fun, so sometimes I don't mind if my day runs a bit longer.
Steve Smith / MinOnline:
Google Opens Android Mag Newsstand, Brands Rush In  —  Magazines have embraced the iPad but generally dissed the Google Android OS.  Google wants to change that will the opening of Magazines on Google Play.  With scores of titles across many of the major publishing houses on tap for this launch …
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest
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Tim Carmody / The Verge:
Google Nexus 7: ebooks' sleeping giant finally has its own reader
Discussion: AppNewser, Kempton and Bits
Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review:
Want to save local newspapers?  Then break the chains that hold them back  —  The economies of scale that once helped place the journalism business among the economy's most profitable now threaten to help sink the industry.  America's newspaper chains missed their moment of opportunity …
Discussion: stdout.be and Journalism.org
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Steve Myers / Poynter:
2011 busiest year for newspaper ownership changes since 2007
 
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