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9:55 AM ET, June 29, 2012

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Rem Rieder / American Journalism Review:
Who Was First?  Who Cares?  —  The ridiculous battle over who “broke” the news on the health care ruling―and why it's dangerous.  Thurs., June 28, 2012.  —  Rem Rieder (rrieder@ajr.umd.edu) is AJR's editor and senior vice president.  —  Q: Which news organization was first to report …
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Steve Myers / Poynter:
Were CNN & Fox News' mistakes on Supreme Court ruling part of ‘process journalism’?  —  We all know that CNN and Fox News mistakenly reported Thursday that the Supreme Court struck down the “individual mandate” part of the health care law.  How did this happen?  Who's responsible?  —  I blame Jeff Jarvis.
Discussion: ABCNEWS, BuzzMachine and Mediaite
Michael Hastings / BuzzFeed:
CNN News Staffers Revolt Over Blown Coverage
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
POTUS First Learned Erroneous News on Court Decision from Cable TV
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
CNN, Fox News err in covering today’s Supreme Court health care ruling
Wall Street Journal:
Inside Murdoch's Decision  —  Rupert Murdoch long resisted any suggestion—be it from bankers or executives within News Corp. —that the media conglomerate spin off the company's newspaper assets, which had become a drag on the stock.  —  “I was hanging on, and so was the whole family,” …
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Felix Salmon:
News Corp's digital divergence
Discussion: NPR and Reuters
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
The Murdoch media tour: Spinning the spinoff
Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:   News Corp split sets stage for possible Lachlan return
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Tom Mockridge and Robert Thomson tipped to head News Corp's press arm
Discussion: Media Week and NPR
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
AOL Reorganizes Into Membership, Brand And Ad Units [Incl Armstrong's Memo]  —  After yesterday's $400 million share buyback, some more news today from our owners, AOL: it's reorganizing into three operating units, plus a separate one for corporate support of all three: they will be called AOL Membership …
Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:
Passing Final Hurdle, Sony's Deal for EMI Publishing Is Approved by U.S.  —  The Federal Trade Commission has approved the $2.2 billion sale of EMI Music Publishing to an investor group led by Sony, the agency announced on Friday morning.  With that clearance, the sale is expected to close later in the day.
Associated Press:
China blocks Bloomberg site after report on leader  —  China blocked access to Bloomberg's website on the mainland after the business and financial news agency published a report Friday detailing the multimillion-dollar assets of relatives of the man set to become the country's next president.
Discussion: Talking Biz News
Alexandra Alter / Wall Street Journal:
Your E-Book Is Reading You  —  Digital-book publishers and retailers now know more about their readers than ever before.  How that's changing the experience of reading.  —  It takes the average reader just seven hours to read the final book in Suzanne Collins's “Hunger Games” trilogy on the Kobo e-reader—about 57 pages an hour.
Discussion: The Verge and Digital Book World
Bloomberg:
Microsoft Said To Plan Xbox Music Rivaling Apple, Spotify  —  Attendees at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles, June 5, 2012.  Microsoft Corp. expanded the sports and entertainment content offered through the Xbox, and is planning to add iTunes and Spotify for music.
Jason Del Rey / AdAge:
Hearst Unveils Private Ad-Buying Marketplace for Its Magazine Websites  —  A Play for Programmatic Online Advertising Dollars  —  Another big magazine company is looking to ad tech to make its online ad inventory more valuable.  —  Six months after Conde Nast launched a private ad marketplace …
Robert Schoon / On The Media:
The Problem with “The Newsroom's” Critics - They're Journalists  —  Reviews of Aaron Sorkin's new HBO show The Newsroom have so far been mixed.  But are journalists the fairest judges for this TV show?  —  Since before The Newsroom aired on HBO last Sunday night, nearly every critic …
Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:
NewsGame aims to populate a virtual world with real reporting and pretend correspondents  —  Game makers turned to journalism for inspiration long before Atari gave us Paperboy.  There was Deadline in the 1970s, and Scoop and Calling Superman in the 1950s.  (If you want to get really old-school, see Round the World with Nellie Bly.)
 
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