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4:00 PM ET, August 16, 2012

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New York Times:
Ecuador Grants Asylum to Assange, Defying Britain  —  CARACAS, Venezuela — The government of Ecuador is prepared to allow Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, to remain in its embassy in London indefinitely under a type of humanitarian protection, a government official said in the capital, Quito, on Wednesday night.
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Lizzy Davies / Guardian:
Julian Assange Ecuador embassy row - live coverage  —  9:23 BST More from professor Eileen Denza, who has been a legal adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.  Though she was involved in drafting the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act, which the British embassy in Quito quoted …
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
As Ecuador Grants Assange Asylum, Former UK Ambassador Says Embassy Raid Is Coming  —  As Ecuador puts its weight behind protecting Julian Assange, tension is building in the tug-of-war between the small South American country and the United Kingdom over the WikiLeaks founder's fate.
Discussion: Guardian, ZDNet, AJE and Media Law Prof Blog
@wikileaks:
AAP:   Assange to appeal if Britain blocks exit
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Georgia students will return to newspaper for meeting  —  Some of the student journalists who walked out on the University of Georgia student newspaper The Red & Black on Wednesday will return for a meeting Thursday afternoon, publisher Harry Montevideo said in a phone interview.
Discussion: College Media Matters
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Students walk out on University of Georgia newspaper  —  Student journalists at University of Georgia newspaper The Red & Black walked out after the university put its faculty advisor, Ed Morales, in charge of the paper's editorial content.  The students have set up a blog and a Twitter account, which has been suspended.
Wall Street Journal:
Apple's New Front in Battle for TV  —  Apple Inc. is in talks with some of the biggest U.S. cable operators about letting consumers use an Apple device as a set-top box for live television and other content, according to people familiar with the matter.  —  The talks represent Apple's …
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Josh Lowensohn / CNET:
Apple TV could double as cable box, report says  —  Apple wants to make its streaming set top box double as a cable box, and is in talks with operators, according to a new report.  —  Apple's set top box could be destined to stream live TV channels, according to a new report.
Joel Mathis / The Philly Post:
The Inky Should Go Online Only and Other Radical Ideas to Save Philly Newspapers  —  The Inquirer and Daily News have survived ownership changes and staff reductions.  Now it's time for them to try something startlingly new.  —  It's time to do something different—radically different—to save Philadelphia's major daily newspapers.
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Further Decline in Credibility Ratings for Most News Organizations  —  OVERVIEW  —  For the second time in a decade, the believability ratings for major news organizations have suffered broad-based declines.  In the new survey, positive believability ratings have fallen significantly for nine of 13 news organizations tested.
Discussion: TheBlaze.com and TVSpy
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
At the ‘Times,’ a new mission statement  —  Some new corporate jargon is being tossed around at The New York Times Company's 8th Avenue headquarters: A growth strategy known as “Invest in the Times.”  For a company named after its flagship newspaper, “Invest in the Times” may not actually sound like much of a strategy.
Discussion: Bloomberg
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Jim Edwards / Business Insider:
Huffington Post Ad Sales Chief Ousted Over 9-Year-Old Arrest Warrant  —  Huffington Post sales head Moritz Loew was dismissed from his job after only three months when a background check turned up a DWI charge from 2003, according to Ad Age:  —  He also confirmed that his dismissal centered around …
Discussion: AdAge
 
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