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4:55 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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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, BBC, ZDNet, AJE and Media Law Prof Blog
@wikileaks:   ANNOUNCEMENT: Julian Assange will give a live statement infront of the Ecuadorian embassy, Sunday 2pm.
AAP:   Assange to appeal if Britain blocks exit
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.
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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
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.
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Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
New York Times Has Enough Cash To Go Private  —  New York Times Co. (NYT), after losing $7 billion in market value since 1999 amid plummeting industry advertising sales, is better positioned than ever to go private as Mark Thompson takes the reins.  Thompson, who slashed more than $1.6 billion …
Discussion: Poynter
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.
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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 …
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.
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Time: Fareed Zakaria's plagiarism was unintentional, isolated incident  —  Time magazine has finished reviewing Fareed Zakaria's columns after he lifted a few lines from a New Yorker story.  The magazine is “entirely satisfied that the language in question in his recent column was an unintentional error and an isolated incident.”
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
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
As time ticks down, publishers and Authors Guild slam ebook settlement  —  On Wednesday, the Authors Guild, publishers Penguin and Macmillan, and Apple filed their opposition to the Department of Justice's proposed ebook pricing settlement with Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster.
Discussion: Hillicon Valley
 
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Charlie Warzel / Adweek:
Overdosing on HuffPost Live Streaming network innovates, though lacks gravitas
Discussion: Globe and Mail and Beet.TV
Jim Edwards / Business Insider:
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Discussion: AdAge
Jim Gallagher / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
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Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM
Barry Walsh / Realscreen:
Mitt Romney repeats pledge to cut PBS federal funding if elected
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
After ‘chains’ remark, Biden's staff tries to edit press pool reports
Discussion: FishbowlDC and Politico
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Phone hacking: Andy Coulson and others to face crown court in September
Discussion: Guardian
Simon Rogers / Guardian:
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Lewis DVorkin / Forbes:
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Guardian:
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