Mediagazer: Guided by Lucky Magazine, Shopping Will Soon Require Less Clicking (Christine Haughney/New York Times)

7:55 AM ET, August 7, 2012

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Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Operation Elveden: police officer and journalist arrested — A serving Sussex police officer and a journalist have been arrested by Scotland Yard officers investigating alleged corrupt payments to public officials. The 29-year-old male police officer and 37-year-old male journalist …

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Katherine Rushton / Telegraph:

Church of England pulls News Corp investment over phone hacking scandal — The Church of England has pulled its £1.9m investment from Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation in a protest over its handling of the News of the World phone hacking scandal. — The Church Commissioners …

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Bleacher Report and the evolution of the content farm — Turner Broadcasting confirmed on Monday that it is acquiring the sports-blogging network Bleacher Report for what some estimate to be about $175 million — a deal that was first reported by All Things Digital — to help the Time Warner unit bulk up its sports coverage.

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Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
Time Warner Said to Buy Bleacher Report for Under $200M

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Turner Buys Bleacher Report

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Cory Bergman / Lost Remote:

Lost Remote acquired by Mediabistro team — I'm excited to announce a new chapter for Lost Remote. WebMediaBrands, the parent company of Mediabistro, has acquired Lost Remote with plans to grow our social TV footprint. Don't worry, we're not going anywhere: I'll continue to play an active role …

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Graham Dunbar / Associated Press:

NBC Olympics: IOC Says Network Can Delay Whatever It Wants — LONDON (AP) — If NBC wants to show Usain Bolt's 100-meter victory on tape delay, the IOC says that's up to the network. — Bolt's blinding dash in the signature event of the London Olympics on Sunday came at 4:50 p.m EDT.

Daniel Frankel / paidContent:

Are the Olympics a bigger media draw than the Super Bowl? — Are the Games really bigger than the Big Game? — According to a Pew Research study released Monday, nearly 8 out of 10 Americans say they're following the London Olympics on either traditional television or via the internet.

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Christine Haughney / New York Times:

Guided by Lucky Magazine, Shopping Will Soon Require Less Clicking — Before women go to the mall, they go to the shopping bible Lucky. Now the magazine wants to save them the price of gas. — On Aug. 17, the magazine will introduce a shopping site called mylucky.com that will direct readers …

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Luke MacGregor / Reuters:

Attempting to shoot the moon — With very little understanding of astronomy but with the aid of a phone app, I began a three evening attempt to capture the moon with the Olympic Rings. The rings have been hanging iconically on Tower Bridge for the London 2012 Olympic Games and it was suggested …

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Patrick B. Pexton / Washington Post:

Leaks bill: bad for journalism, bad for the public — There's a bill zooming through Congress that would make it harder for Post reporters to inform readers about what their government is doing. — This bill, the annual authorization bill to fund the intelligence agencies …

Bloomberg Blog:

Bloomberg.com Launches New Politics Page and “Political “Capital” Blog — Bloomberg.com today announced the launch of a new Politics page featuring top stories, daily video commentary from Bloomberg's Al Hunt, a state-by-state analysis of campaign spending and a “Political Capital” blog offering data-rich perspectives and insight.

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Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:

Amazon now renting old-fashioned paper textbooks — Amazon now offers physical textbook rentals as a cheaper option for college students, a move designed to keep Amazon as a dominant player in textbooks. — While Amazon has offered digital rentals of textbooks for more than a year …

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

At ‘The New York Observer,’ another account of the editor and president's departures — Aaron Gell, the newly appointed editor of The New York Observer, has hit the ground running. — In the paper's regular Friday editorial meeting, Gell, who was bumped up from executive editor several days ago …