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6:10 AM ET, July 6, 2012

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MG Siegler:
“MG Siegler can't be trusted.”  —  Do you want an overview of the current state of the tech blogosphere?  Click the link above.  —  I mean, that's seriously a story.  A full story.  On a site that purports to report about technology.  (And congratulations: your click will undoubtedly lead to other stories just like it!)
Discussion: @dangillmor
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Adrianne Jeffries / Betabeat:
Unreliable Narrators!  TechCrunch Blogger Inserted ‘Random Information (Sometimes Even False)’ Into Posts  —  Mr. Siegler.  (Photo: LinkedIn)  —  The blogosphere is a brave new news world, but it's generally assumed that blogs that report the news adhere to basic journalistic standards …
Discussion: The Verge and Marco.org
Anna Tarkov / Poynter:
Journatic CEO to staff: ‘Bumps are going to be part of the ride’  —  Journatic CEO Brian Timpone wants his staff to know that “This American Life” and other reporting on the outsourcing company is “noise” that follows “the change we're forcing” in journalism.
Discussion: NPR and NetNewsCheck Latest
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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 …
Jim Romenesko:   Jake Barnes surfaces again
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Yahoo CEO Search in Final Stages, With Levinsohn and Kilar in Lead  —  According to sources close to the situation, the search for a new CEO for Yahoo is closing in on key candidates.  —  But, said sources, it appears to be coming down to a contest between interim Yahoo CEO Ross Levinsohn and Hulu CEO Jason Kilar.
Nikki Finke / Deadline.com:
HBO Not Proceeding With Fox News' Roger Ailes TV Movie Produced By MSNBC Rivals: “CNN Affiliation” Cited As The Reason  —  EXCLUSIVE UPDATE: I scooped yesterday that HBO had done a secret deal for an Untitled Roger Ailes Project being executive produced by Fox News rivals from MSNBC.
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
WikiLeaks Removes Associated Press From List of Media ‘Collaborators’ On Syria Docs  —  NEW YORK — When WikiLeaks began publishing some 2.4 million Syrian files on Thursday, a trove that it said includes emails from “political figures, ministries and associated companies,” …
Discussion: The Atlantic Wire
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Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
WikiLeaks starts publishing 2.4m #SyriaFiles and outlines its ‘search interface’
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
BSkyB Study Finds U.K. Pay TV Giant Contributes $8.4 Billion to Economy  —  The company says it also supports 120,000 jobs as media regulator Ofcom continues to probe if it is “fit and proper” to own a broadcast license.  —  LONDON - British satellite TV giant BSkyB said Thursday …
Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:
Murdoch Isn't the First to Consider Renaming The Wall Street Journal  —  When Rupert Murdoch let it be known in an interview last week that he was thinking of giving The Wall Street Journal a new, streamlined name — WSJ — he was joining a discussion within the newspaper that dates back at least to the end of World War II.
Discussion: FishbowlNY and JIMROMENESKO.COM
Tim Carmody / The Verge:
Digital, print, oral: Shakespeare's Sonnets for iPad brings reading full circle  —  Let's start with the various media layers gathered in this book.  First, there's the Arden critical text of all 154 sonnets and A Lover's Complaint, a poem attributed to Shakespeare that was included in the first edition of the Sonnets in 1609.
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Fired KC Star reporter sues, says using press releases isn't plagiarism  —  Steve Penn was fired by the Kansas City Star last July for using material from press releases in his columns.  Editors found “more than a dozen examples in Penn's columns dating back to 2008″ of repurposed prose.
Tracie Powell / Poynter:
Proposed: Citizen journalists should fill gaps in ‘information ghettos’  —  Miami Herald Columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr. wrote last month that citizen journalists cannot replace professionals, but a new report issued by Washington State University's Murrow College of Communication suggests doing …
 
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Emma Bazilian / Adweek:
‘Esquire’ Takes a Page From Hollywood to Promote August Issue
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
The Maynard Institute for Journalism Education:
Clarence Page: “My Job Is Safe for Now”
Alexander Abad-Santos / The Atlantic Wire:
The Huffington Post Also Got Snookered By Wall Street Journal Fabricator
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Newsmax opens New York TV studio; first guests include Forbes, Rumsfeld, Pataki
Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:
Ex-Politico WH Correspondent Joe Williams Pleaded Guilty to Assaulting Ex-Wife
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Associated Press:
Al-Jazeera show's Twitter account hacked
NY Daily News:
Inner Tube: NBC denies report that David Gregory could be on the way out at ‘Meet the Press’
Jim Romenesko:
Washington Post's Amanda Zamora joins ProPublica
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Reuters Hires Caveman to Write Headlines
Discussion: AppNewser
Jim Romenesko:
NJ.com wants Politico's Ginger Gibson back to cover Chris Christie
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Europe sues to continue taxing digital content higher than physical
Discussion: ZDNet
Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
Visual.ly: New infographics tool to launch ‘later this year’
Discussion: eMedia Vitals