Mediagazer: ‘Today’ co-host Ann Curry will bid farewell today (Susan Page/USA Today)

3:05 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: ABCNEWS, Politico, Gawker, The Huffington Post, @producermatthew and Collective Talent

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

CNN issues correction, Fox issue 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: Forbes, Mediaite, Capital New York, TVNewser and The Daily Beast

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, New York Magazine 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 …

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

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.

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Erik Wemple:
CNN correction on health-care ruling: Insane

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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 …

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

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent: The Murdoch media tour: Spinning the spinoff

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

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

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

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Lucia Moses / Adweek:
What a News Corp. Split Could Mean for Editorial Coverage

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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 …

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 …

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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 …

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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.

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: TechCrunch and Forbes