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5:00 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.

Michael Hastings / BuzzFeed:

CNN News Staffers Revolt Over Blown Coverage — News staffers at the cable network CNN, long the gold standard in television news, were on the verge of open revolt Tuesday after CNN blew the coverage on the most consequential news event of the year. As Chief Justice John Roberts began reading …

Discussion: Gawker, Politico, Business Insider, The Huffington Post, @producermatthew, The Daily Caller and Collective Talent

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: Politico, Gawker, Mediaite, New York Magazine and Vanity Fair

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

CNN issues correction, Fox issues statement on Supreme Court reporting mistakes — The ruling has come down: Both CNN and Fox badly bungled their reporting of today's landmark Supreme Court opinion on healthcare. And both organizations have taken very different routes to correcting their mistakes.

Discussion: Media Matters for America, Forbes, Mediaite, Gawker, The Daily Beast, Capital New York and Charles Apple

Sarah Kliff / Washington Post:

For SCOTUSblog, one goal: ‘Beat everybody’ and break news of health-care ruling — Lyle Denniston is an 81-year-old retiree with six grandchildren, two sailboats and one ambitious goal: breaking the news of the Supreme Court's landmark decision on the health-care law, possibly to the president himself.

Discussion: FishbowlDC, @onthemedia, New York Times, Poynter, Online NewsHour, Mashable! and SCOTUSblog

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 …

Discussion: American Journalism Review and The Huffington Post

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: Forbes, Media Nation and Mediaite

Erik Wemple:

CNN correction on health-care ruling: Insane — Here is the banner stripped right now at the very top of CNN.com: Correction: The Supreme Court backs all parts of President Obama's signature health care law. Yes, the network that is used to being first among cable news networks …

Discussion: Forbes and Mediaite

Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
POTUS First Learned Erroneous News on Court Decision from Cable TV

Discussion: Poynter, Adweek, Mediaite, TVNewser, Mashable!, The Huffington Post, Washington Wire, Guardian and CNN

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.

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Murdoch Says Separated News Corp Publishing Biz Will ‘Push Even Harder’ On Charging For Content — Old media, some think, is headed for the graveyard, and they'll be damned if it takes young and cool new media with it. But it ain't dead yet, and some growling comments made today by Rupert Murdoch …

Discussion: The Next Web

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

The Murdoch media tour: Spinning the spinoff — Super Bowl winners head to Disney World; moguls with a new corporate agenda go on a media tour. In the hours following the formal announcement early Thursday morning that News Corp. will split into publishing and media/entertainment …

Discussion: Radio & Television … and Adweek

Yinka Adegoke / Reuters: News Corp split sets stage for possible Lachlan return

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: Rupert Murdoch denies News Corp split is linked to phone-hacking scandal

Charles Forelle / @charlesforelle: On @CNBC, @rupertmurdoch says name of Wall Street Journal might be changed to WSJ.

Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Tom Mockridge and Robert Thomson tipped to head News Corp's press arm

Discussion: AllThingsD and WebProNews

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
News Corp confirms split as Rupert Murdoch steps back from papers

Discussion: Media Decoder and Multichannel

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

Sandra Laville / Guardian: Senior police officer under investigation over hacking of Milly Dowler's phone

Adrian Chen / Gawker:

Remix Everything: BuzzFeed and the Plagiarism Problem — BuzzFeed has built a lucrative business on organizing the internet's confusing spectacle into listicles easily comprehended by even the most numbed office workers. But the site's approach to all content as building blocks …

Discussion: Philip Bump

Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online: What's the Secret to Viral Success? It's So Obvious

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 …