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10:30 PM ET, July 22, 2012

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Katherine Rushton / Telegraph:
Rupert Murdoch steps down from NI boards  —  Rupert Murdoch's grip on UK newspapers is loosening “finger by finger”, as he resigns string of directorships.  —  Rupert Murdoch has repeatedly insisted that he remains committed to his UK newspapers, vowing that he will remain a “very active chairman” of the publishing busines.
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Matt Williams / Guardian:
Murdoch quits as News International director  —  Move fuels rumours of sell-off of UK newspapers despite media mogul's reassurance that he is ‘fully committed’ as chairman  —  Rupert Murdoch has stepped down as a director of News International, in a move that will fuel speculation the media mogul …
Helen Lewis / New Statesman:
How the media shouldn't cover a mass murder  —  A look at the “Batman killer” front pages.  —  Every time there's a mass shooting, I remember this piece of footage from Charlie Brooker's BBC series Newswipe.  In it, a forensic psychiatrist outlines the guidelines for news reporting of such a tragedy …
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
The Colorado shooting and the crowdsourced future of news
Jack Shafer:
What the Colorado shooting says about us
David Carr / New York Times:
Yahoo's Big Question - What Is It?  —  What is Yahoo?  —  That straightforward question has so far baffled the people who run the company.  —  I got a taste of the fuzziness when I visited Carol Bartz, then the chief executive, back in 2010.  She was funny, profane and articulate, except on the question of what the company is.
Discussion: ReveNews
Jim Romenesko:
Chicago Tribune decides to stick with Journatic  —  The Chicago Tribune is hiring 44-year newsroom veteran Randy Weissman as a consultant to help develop and implement appropriate changes at embattled Journatic and the Chicago Tribune, which has invested in the hyper-local content provider.
Discussion: Poynter
Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
The NYT's & WSJ's Push To Online Video  —  Twice a week this month, Digiday will examine ways of “Improving Web Video.”  We'll cover both challenges and opportunities in online video and highlight brands and publishers getting it right.  The series is made possible through the sponsorship of Vizu.
Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:
That plan to archive every tweet in the Library of Congress?  Definitely still happening  —  A little more than two years ago, the Library of Congress announced it would preserve every public tweet, ever, for future generations. … Fifty million tweets a day.  How cute.
Discussion: TeleRead and Scripting News
Dorian Benkoil / MediaShift:
The Return of the Human: Why Tech Companies Are Tapping Journalism Talent  —  In digital media, it turns out, editors — actual human beings — might actually be necessary.  —  At least that seems to be the trend as developer-laden ventures like Tumblr, Flipboard and even an ad network bring …
Steve Buttry / The Buttry Diary:
Curation techniques, types and tips  —  News curators must collect, summarize, make sense, add value, attribute, link, intrigue and entice.  —  Digital First Media announced today that Julie Westfall will lead our curation team, joined by Angi Carter and Karen Workman.
Discussion: The Buttry Diary
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
‘Frontline’ Chooses an Heir Apparent  —  BOSTON — “Frontline” has promoted Raney Aronson, one of its top lieutenants, to be deputy executive producer, in effect signaling that she will one day succeed David Fanning, the longtime executive producer of the award-winning television documentary series.
Rebecca Ballhaus / The Huffington Post:
College Newspapers Go Digital-First, Innovate To Stay Relevant  —  NEW YORK — This fall, the University of Oregon's Daily Emerald — a print publication for more than 90 years — will ditch the daily for digital, publish a twice-weekly magazine, and launch a mini-tech start-up called The Garage.
Discussion: Capital New York
Helena Williams / Journalism.co.uk:
Typewriter art installation tells stories of journalists ‘risking their lives to give us a tweet’  —  The typewriter installation by interactive art director Julian Koschwitz is hooked up to generative software producing words and images based on slain journalists' data from the Committee to Protect Journalists and other web searches
 
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Ellen McCarthy / Washington Post:
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU

Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat:
Stability AI debuts Stable Video 3D, a generative AI tool built on its Stable Video Diffusion model, letting users create 3D video from a text or image prompt

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Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, allowing a group of up to six Steam users to share their games, manage parental controls, and more

 
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