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8:15 PM ET, July 18, 2012

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Yahoo! creates new editors-in-chief for news, finance  —  Marissa Mayer isn't Yahoo's only high-level appointment this week.  The Silicon Valley search portal-turned-content titan, which on Monday named Mayer, a popular Google executive, as its new C.E.O., has tapped some internal talent …
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Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The newsonomics of Marissa Mayer's Yahoo legacy challenge  —  Call it a Hail Marissa pass.  —  Kudos to the Yahoo board for shaking up the conventional wisdom, going long, going young, and going Google.  Against a history of failure, it has chosen success — the gold-plated success of Google …
Discussion: Forbes Real Time, TechCrunch and Adweek
Charles E. Schumer / Wall Street Journal:
Memo to DOJ: Drop the Apple E-Books Suit  —  Restoring Amazon's monopoly in digital publishing is not in the public interest.  —  Recently the Department of Justice filed suit against Apple and major publishers, alleging that they colluded to raise prices in the digital books market.
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
E-books Are Booming, and Still Sort of Small  —  No surprise to anyone who reads a site like this one: Sales of e-books are booming.  —  But just like most media formats, the book market is still a long way from converting completely to digital: Last year, print accounted for 85 percent …
Discussion: VentureBeat
Merrill Knox / TVNewser:
Hannity Gets First Interview with George Zimmerman  —  Sean Hannity has secured the first interview with George Zimmerman, the man accused of killing Florida teenager Trayvon Martin.  The hour-long exclusive will air on Hannity's Fox News Channel program tonight at 9pmET.
Blog.Viacom:
No Deal in Sight: Viacom Compromise Proposals Fail to Sway DIRECTV  —  UPDATE IN RESPONSE TO DIRECTV'S STATEMENT ON EPIX:  —  DIRECTV's most recent press release regarding EPIX is one more complete work of fiction from the company.  We've offered DIRECTV various compromise proposals …
Discussion: VentureBeat, CNET and CNNMoney.com
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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Viacom says talks with DirecTV have broken down
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Bloomberg
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
David Gergen Reveals Extent Of Bain Capital Ties While ‘Reporting’ On Firm  —  NEW YORK — CNN senior political analyst David Gergen defended Mitt Romney this week against the Obama campaign's charges that the Republican nominee hasn't been honest about his tenure at Bain Capital …
Discussion: Mediaite, Chickaboomer and TVNewser
Andy Borowitz / The New Yorker:
SHOCKER: The New Yorker Acquires the Borowitz Report  —  After eleven years of writing nothing but fake news at the Borowitz Report, I have to tell you something that actually happened.  —  I'm excited to announce that The New Yorker has acquired the Borowitz Report.
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Twitter, Reddit and the newsroom of the future  —  By now, many people are becoming used to Twitter as a source of breaking news, whether it's a report about the death of Osama bin Laden or details about the Arab Spring uprisings in Egypt.  But it's still fascinating to come across new examples …
John Cook / Gawker:
‘It Was Like a War Zone’: A Former Nanny for Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng Speaks Out  —  A former household staffer and tutor for Rupert Mudoch and Wendi Deng's children is speaking out for the first time about the relentless nightmare that is working for the Murdochs: Screaming tantrums …
Discussion: New York Magazine
Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:
ProPublica gets $1.9 million from Knight to expand its efforts in data journalism  —  ProPublica is getting a $1.9 million data journalism grant from the Knight Foundation, the nonprofits jointly announced on Wednesday.  —  The money will be used to support ProPublica's News Applications team, including adding one full-time staffer.
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Glenn Mulcaire forced to reveal who gave phone-hacking order  —  Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator used by the News of the World has been forced to reveal who ordered him to hack the phone of an assistant to PR Max Clifford in compliance with a supreme court order.
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Phone hacking: ‘significant’ email from News International executive emerges
Discussion: Bloomberg
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Why the Washington Post will never have a paywall  —  The list of major newspapers that haven't at least experimented with a paywall or subscription option for online content is pretty short, and one of the most prominent abstainers is the Washington Post.  While the success …
Discussion: Fortune, Thanks:@biztrends
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Jim Warren to head NewsBeast OFA beat  —  Newsweek/Daily Beast has hired Jim Warren, the former Washington bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune, to serve as Chicago Editor-at-Large, POLITICO has learned.  —  Now through November, Warren will head Obama campaign coverage out of Chicago for the website and the magazine.
Richard Verrier / Los Angeles Times:
News Corp. gives $20 million to Motion Picture & Television Fund  —  Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive officer of News Corp., is seen arriving for the morning session at the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho.  His company is donating $20 million to the Motion Picture & Television Fund.
Discussion: Variety
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Media General reports income increase, net loss in second quarter  —  Operating income was up 164 percent at Media General in its second quarter, the company announced today.  It attributed the rise to political advertising and retransmission fees, which were up 80 percent.
Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable
Tania Branigan / Guardian:
Chinese newspaper shakeups raise fears of growing pressure on media  —  Two newspapers undergo staff reshuffles before party congress unveils change of leadership this autumn  —  Abrupt reshuffles at two outspoken Chinese newspapers have raised fears of growing pressure on the media …
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Politico's Harris: ‘Quote doctoring does bother me’  —  News organizations continue to react to New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters' story about campaigns “routinely demanding that reporters allow them final editing power over any published quotations.”  Or, to use the term AJR's Carl …
Jeanne Whalen / Wall Street Journal:
WikiLeaks Nearly Out of Cash  —  WikiLeaks said it is close to running out of money, a problem the site blamed on Visa and MasterCard, which have prohibited users from donating to the site.  —  WikiLeaks' cash reserves have fallen from €800,000 ($983,600) in December 2010 to less …
Discussion: New York Magazine
 
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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
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Roll Call bags print product for conventions
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How Kickstarter could disrupt public radio
Jennifer Reingold / Fortune:
Don Graham: Why a paywall won't work for the Post
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Ryan Holiday / Daily Dot:
Exclusive excerpt: “Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator”
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
The Voice wins victory after stadium snub
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Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:
New York Times Contract Talks: Union Fury As Paper Proposes Separate Plans For Print And Digital
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