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5:45 PM ET, July 6, 2012

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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Journal Critique of Romney Shows Murdoch Doubt on Candidacy  —  To hear Rupert Murdoch tell it lately, Mitt Romney lacks stomach and heart.  He “seems to play everything safe.”  And he is not nearly as tough as he needs to be on President Obama.  —  Mr. Murdoch's thoughts on the Republican presidential candidate's prospects?
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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes Real Time:
News Corp. After the Split: Bright Outlook for WSJ; The NY Post, Not So Much  —  Employees of The Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and other News Corp.-owned newspapers are feeling nervous over the prospect of being severed from the parts of the media conglomerate responsible for the vast majority of its profits.
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Fake Bylines Reveal Hidden Costs Of Local News … Newspapers acknowledged publishing dozens of items in print or online from outsourcing firm Journatic that appeared under fake bylines.  The Chicago Tribune, for example, said the matter is under investigation.
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
The future of media and forcing new content into old models  —  We've seen a ton of digital ink spilled over the implications of media startup Journatic faking bylines for some of its content, including a post from me at about the underlying economics that have forced newspapers …
Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
BBC global news chief on trust: ‘If they believe us, they will share it’  —  Peter Horrocks tells World Media Summit in Moscow audiences trust news shared by their family and friends more than articles shared by ‘most traditional media’  —  The BBC's director of global news has today …
Discussion: bbc.co.uk
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Jessica Culshaw / BBC:
BBC warns of ‘unprecedented threat’ to independent news  —  The BBC has today warned of an ‘unprecedented global threat to impartial and independent news’ and called on relevant authorities worldwide to protect the rights of journalists to report freely.  —  The call follows news …
Vanity Fair:
The Late Marie Colvin: “I Feel Like I Am the Last Reporter in the YouTube World”  —  “My darling, I have come back in to Baba Amr, the besieged neighbourhood of Homs, and am now freezing in my hovel with no windows.  I just thought, I cannot cover the modern day Srebrenica from the suburbs …
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
Huge: Reddit's largest subsections command more than 100 million monthly impressions  —  Yes, Reddit is big, but did you know how big?  As it turns out, the social links and news site is likely larger than you imagined.  Released today is a pile of traffic data from several of the sites largest ‘subreddits,’ or subsections.
Discussion: Daily Dot and WebProNews
Tracie Powell / Poynter:
Where Joe Williams' departure leaves Politico's newsroom diversity  —  Reporter Joe Williams' departure from Politico is part of a longer story that began back in 2009 when the National Association of Black Journalists and others publicly chastised the publication for its lack of diversity.
Discussion: FishbowlDC and The Daily Caller
Alan Prendergast / Westword:
Armando Montano: Account of “accidental” finding in journalist's death disputed  —  Mexican authorities have concluded that the death of Armando Montaño, a promising young journalist from Colorado Springs whose body was found June 30 in an elevator shaft in Mexico City …
Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM
Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Levinsohn likely next Yahoo CEO, Hulu's Kilar drops out  —  (Reuters) - The race to become Yahoo Inc's next chief executive appears to have come down to two candidates: current interim CEO Ross Levinsohn and Hulu CEO Jason Kilar.  —  According to two sources with knowledge of the situation …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
NI pays £30m to end Johnston printing contract  —  Sun publisher denies decision to bring printing in-house is due to falling sales and News of the World closure  —  News International has paid £30m to terminate its printing contract with Johnston Press, with speculation …
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
The BBC unveils its first ‘Perceptive Media’ experiment - and you can try it now  —  The BBC's R&D department has just demoed the first public example of what it calls ‘Perceptive Media’, and has published it online so you can try it for yourself.  —  What is Perceptive Media?
 
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Jeanine Poggi / AdAge:
Netflix's Billion-Hour June: Big, Just Not Quite as Big as You Think
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Why links matter: Linking is the lifeblood of the web
Discussion: AllThingsD and Macworld
Reuters:
Mexican court passes Slim TV bid to next government
Guardian:
Sky News faces tweet reality
Kelly Clay / Ebyline Blog:
AP Social Media Editor Eric Carvin on Twitter Policies and More
Tim Carmody / The Verge:
Digital, print, oral: Shakespeare's Sonnets for iPad brings reading full circle
 Earlier Picks: 
Tracie Powell / Poynter:
Proposed: Citizen journalists should fill gaps in ‘information ghettos’
Emma Bazilian / Adweek:
‘Esquire’ Takes a Page From Hollywood to Promote August Issue
Discussion: eMedia Vitals
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
BSkyB Study Finds U.K. Pay TV Giant Contributes $8.4 Billion to Economy
Jim Romenesko:
News & Observer charges a buck for Olympics preview
Jeanine Poggi / AdAge:
Will News Corp. Split Encourage Time Warner to Spin Off Magazines?
Julie Moos / Poynter:
U-T San Diego runs old story on today's front page
Discussion: UTSanDiego.com