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9:30 AM ET, July 9, 2012

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David Carr / New York Times:
Newspaper Industry Is Running Out of Time to Adapt to Digital Future  —  While the rest of us were burning hot dogs on the grill last week, the newspaper industry seemed to be lighting itself on fire.  —  There have been cracks in publishing operations that are both hilarious and terrifying.
Discussion: eMedia Vitals
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Jim Hopkins / Gannett Blog:
A pension plan report that's worth a closer look  —  As I've written this winter and spring, there's no doubt Gannett's main pension plan isn't as robust as it could be.  —  The Gannett Retirement Plan, which benefits about 50,000 current and former employees, is underfunded by as much as $500 million …
Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM
Tom Goldstein / SCOTUSblog:
We're getting wildly differing assessments  —  The announcement of the Supreme Court's decision largely upholding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Thursday, June 28 precipitated a genuine media drama.  Millions tuned in to get the result in real time, and were rewarded …
Jim Romenesko:
Times-Picayune reporter: I can't keep my mouth shut and pretend everything is okay  —  “Sometimes I just want to scream about what is happening around me” at the newspaper, she writes.  —  “Those of us laid off still have jobs to do until the 30th of Sept, but it's going from bad to worse,” she tells Romenesko readers.
Discussion: DashThirtyDash
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Tracie Powell / Poynter:   How the digital divide developed in New Orleans & what that means for the future of news there
Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:
Phone hacking: prosecutor will decide on charges within weeks  —  Ex-News of the World journalists will soon know whether they are to face trial, as Keir Starmer says CPS will finish considering 13 case files by the end of July  —  Prosecutors aim to decide by the end of this month whether …
Discussion: Grey Cardigan
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Ian Burrell / The Independent:
How The Times undermined its own good work on Leveson Inquiry  —  Back in 2008, shortly after becoming editor of The Times, James Harding redesigned the paper.  Most notably he changed page two to become a prominent noticeboard for the values and beliefs of the publication.
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Young tablet owners more willing to pay for news  —  Paying for online news is still a minority sport - but participation may be growing thanks to tablet computers.  —  Those who have paid for digital news ranges from 12 percent in Denmark to four percent in the UK, according to the Reuters Institute …
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
What's really going wrong (and right) at The Washington Post  —  Not so long ago, Donald Graham was being lionized as the model of a results-driven CEO.  Even The New York Times, a sometimes catty rival to other high-profile papers, quoted a Post staffer who hailed Graham's Washington Post as America's “best-run newspaper company.”
Fabrizio Bensch / Photographers Blog:
Robo-cams go for Olympic gold  —  Is it possible to get 11 photographers into a box and put them in a position where you could never place a photographer?  Normally, it would be absolutely impossible.  But nothing is impossible when it comes to the Olympic games.
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Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:
Let's explode the myth that data journalism is ‘resource intensive’  —  Is data journalism ‘time consuming’ or ‘resource intensive’?  The excuse - and I think it is an excuse - seems to come up at an increasing number of events whenever data journalism is discussed.
Discussion: eMedia Vitals
Natan Edelsburg / Lost Remote:
Exclusive: NBC News launches ‘Dateline Chatline’ to make broadcast more social  —  When Dateline first launched on NBC News back in 1992, it was unclear whether this TV news magazine would fail after so many other NBC attempts had tanked.  Now in it's 20th season, the network is launching …
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Thanks:@steverubel
Walter Shapiro / CJR:
Why is ‘issue coverage’ so boring—and often wrong?  —  Slavish fidelity to campaign position papers and official statements short-changes voters  —  As we sipped red wine in Washington last week, Republican pollster David Winston suddenly asked me, “Why doesn't the media write more about issues …
Alex Howard / GovFresh:
Social citizenship: CNN and Facebook to partner on “I'm Voting” app in 2012 election  —  Two years ago, I wondered whether “social voting” on Foursquare would increase voter participation.  —  That experiment is about to be writ much larger.  In a release today, first reported …
 
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Sam Kirkland / Poynter:
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Tim Molloy / The Wrap:
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Sources: Apple is testing a more conversational version of Siri, dubbed “LLM Siri”, with plans to release it in spring 2026 as part of iOS 19 and macOS 16

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