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3:00 PM ET, August 3, 2012

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Newhouse: 'There's every reason to be upset and angry, but...'  —  Steven Newhouse knows a lot of people don't like his company's decision to reduce print frequency and staff at its newspapers and move most of its publishing online.  —  “There's every reason to be upset and angry,” …
Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu
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Steve Newhouse / Poynter:
Steve Newhouse explains Michigan transition, Times-Picayune future  —  Opinion: Securing a Future for Our Local Journalism  —  Four years ago, Advance Publications, which operates newspapers and websites in more than 25 cities, began looking at different approaches to building a viable future for our local newspapers and websites.
Nadia Khan / Unity News:
Student journalist ejected from open NAHJ board meeting  —  The president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, Michele Salcedo, refused to allow media coverage of its open board meeting Tuesday, July 31, 2012.  Salcedo barred use of social media and video recording in the meeting …
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Tanzina Vega / New York Times:
Division Threatens Unity as Minority Journalists Meet  —  LAS VEGAS — Nearly every four years since the mid-1990s, hundreds of journalists like those gathering here this week have come together under the banner of “Unity: Journalists of Color,” a nod toward the conference's efforts to increase …
Richard Prince / The Maynard Institute …:
NAHJ Defends Ban on Social Media
Discussion: Unity News and Loop21
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Plagiarism, more fake interviews in Jonah Lehrer's ‘Imagine,’ ‘How We Decide’  —  Michael C. Moynihan, the journalist who discovered that Jonah Lehrer had fabricated quotations from Bob Dylan and misquoted others in his book “Imagine,” says he's found more problems:
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
CBS Loves Apple TV, in Theory  —  CBS boss Les Moonves gets asked a lot about his willingness to do business with Apple.  And his answer is always the same: “Sure!  As long as it's on our terms.”  —  Yesterday's earnings call was no exception.  Here's the full exchange between the CBS CEO …
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Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg:
CBS Second-Quarter Profit Rose 8.1% as Advertising Slid
Discussion: Adweek
Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
Washington Post Co. second-quarter profit up 13.6 percent  —  The Washington Post Co. reported a 13.6 percent increase in second quarter profit, but net income from continuing operations fell 28.6 percent.  —  The company announced net income of $51.8 million, or $8.84 a share, up from $45.6 million, or $5.74 a share, a year earlier.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
The Truth About Pay TV: It's Still Not Shrinking  —  Reuters says more than 400,000 Americans have dropped pay TV this year.  So maybe cord-cutting is real, after all.  —  But if it is, the numbers don't show it.  —  It's easy to be confused about this stuff, but it's also easy to clear it up …
Discussion: Forbes, Reuters, BGR, CNET, paidContent and Forbes
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Is Facebook Stories the next Patch, Flipboard, HuffPo or something else?  —  Facebook is testing out original content publishing with Facebook Stories, a site that will “share the stories of people using Facebook in extraordinary ways.”  It's unclear what Facebook Stories is yet …
Amy Wicks / WWD:
Brides to Go Bimonthly  —  These days, bridal-industry experts say it takes a year and a half to plan a wedding.  Coincidentally, it seems that will be the same amount of time it will take Brides magazine to overhaul its magazine, which began almost a year ago with the hiring of new editor …
Discussion: FishbowlNY, Adweek, Folio and AdAge
Scott Shane / New York Times:
National Security Leaks Lead to F.B.I. Hunt and News Chill  —  WASHINGTON — F.B.I. agents on a hunt for leakers have interviewed current and former high-level government officials from multiple agencies in recent weeks, casting a distinct chill over press coverage of national security issues …
Adam Martin / The Atlantic Wire:
Reuters Blogs Hacked With Fake Story About Syrian Rebels  —  Reuters became involved in the Syrian conflict in a way it didn't intend to on Friday, when someone hacked into its blogging site and published a fake post purporting to quote a Syrian rebel leader saying his forces were withdrawing from Aleppo.
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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Rebekah Brooks Formally Charged
Discussion: Bloomberg and FishbowlNY
 
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Dvora Meyers / Deadspin:
Fake, Jingoistic, And Stupid: Gymnastics Coverage Is The Worst Part Of NBC's Olympics
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Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Rick Gorka, Romney ‘Kiss My A—’ Spokesman, Taking A Break From Campaign
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