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3:45 PM ET, July 3, 2012

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David Carr / Media Decoder:
Executive at Advance's NJ.com Denies Staffing Up to Supplant Newspapers  —  “I'M HIRING!  NJ.COM — New Jersey's biggest digital news operation — is expanding,” wrote the executive, Lamar Graham, in a Facebook post that was reprinted by JimRomensko.com and has since been taken down from Facebook.
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:   Newhouses say they aren't ‘sneaking up’ on New Jersey
Eric Celeste / Creative Loafing Atlanta:
Nashville-based media company SouthComm acquires Creative Loafing Atlanta and Washington City Paper  —  Creative Loafing Atlanta has been purchased by SouthComm Inc., a Nashville-based media company.  The sale also includes CL's sister publication Washington City Paper in D.C. Once the transition …
Discussion: Poynter
Steve Myers / Poynter:
New York Times interviewing finalists for public editor job  —  The New York Times has narrowed its pool of candidates for the public editor position and hopes to make an announcement by the end of July, said Glenn Kramon, assistant managing editor for enterprise.
Discussion: FishbowlNY and Guardian
Josef Adalian / Vulture:
The Newsroom Takes a Ratings Hit  —  HBO has already renewed The Newsroom for a second season, but that's no reason to stop obsessively tracking the show's ratings, just like they do in the real world of cable news.  And while we'll try to not get too dramatic over week-to-week fluctuations …
Discussion: TVLine
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Fastest growing segment of piracy?  Live TV  —  A chart from the report “The six business models for copyright infringement.”  Click to expand.  —  A new Google study entitled “The six business models for copyright infringement,” just released with the UK's PRS (Performing Right Society) …
Paula Froelich / The Daily Beast:
Rupert Murdoch Attacks Scientology Because It Once Courted His Son Lachlan  —  On Sunday Rupert Murdoch, arguably the most powerful man in media, stunned media watchers when he inserted himself into the Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes divorce fray by attacking Cruise's beloved religion.
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘Daily News’ loses another veteran reporter  —  The Daily News is losing one of its heavy-hitters: Alison Gendar, who over 13 years at the paper has covered everything from public schools to One Police Plaza to national courts and politics, is leaving the News to take a position …
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
One Week In, New York Times' Chinese Social Media Accounts Shut Down, Site Still Up  —  So much for that experiment in freedom of speech.  Last week, the New York Times launched an online Chinese edition of its newsspaper — and with it a social media presence in the country.
Anna Tarkov / Poynter:
GateHouse to end outsourcing relationship with Journatic  —  The Tribune Company has gotten most of the media's attention lately for working with Journatic.  They've even launched an internal investigation into the content provider.  But as Brian Timpone told us, Journatic works with many more news companies.
Jim Romenesko:
Chicago Tribune reviews unauthorized paid speech by Clarence Page  —  ProPublica revealed Monday afternoon that Chicago Tribune syndicated columnist and editorial board member Clarence Page was paid $20,000 and travel expenses to appear at a June 23 rally in Paris in support of the Mujahadin-e Khalq …
Discussion: WBEZ and ProPublica
Joshua Haddow / Vice:
Confessions of a Tabloid Terrorist  —  You might remember Graham Johnson (pictured above).  In the past, we've called him up to discuss the child gangs turning the streets of Liverpool into a variety of hell populated with burning cars, IEDs, and cheap guns.
Jim Romenesko:
Parents of AP intern Armando Montano seek answers about his death  —  The parents of Associated Press intern Armando Montano — both teachers at Colorado College — are in Mexico City, trying to get information about the death of their only child.  “The AP has been spectacular in helping us negotiate the Mexican bureaucracy.
Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:
After Petition Drive, Seventeen Magazine Commits to ‘Show Girls as They Really Are’  —  Seventeen magazine, which in recent months has been inundated by pleas from teenage girls to publish photographs of models that don't look touched up, announced that it would change how it presents models in its pages.
Discussion: Adweek
 
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Bill Carter / New York Times:
Julian Goodman Dies at 90; Led NBC
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Herman Cain launching his own Web channel
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Who leaked the Supreme Court story?
Discussion: Guardian and ThinkProgress
Tara Conlan / Guardian:
New BBC director general could be named this week
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Bloomberg Businessweek eyes push into UK market
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Shushannah Walshe / ABC News:
Christie Calls Reporter ‘Idiot’ and ‘Stupid’ at Press Conference
Eric Newton / Knight Foundation:
A nonprofit news organization ‘on stable footing’
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Alex Klein / The Daily Beast:
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Another tabloid vet leaves for to DNAinfo
The Huffington Post:
Announcing the HuffPost Pollster API
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Landman: Multitasking partly to blame for Alessandra Stanley's errors in Ann Curry story
Discussion: Open Mic and Poynter