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3:40 AM ET, August 16, 2012

Top News:

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp launches anti-corruption review — Media group to review compliance with bribery laws in several of its publishing arms, including News International in London — Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has launched a review of anti-corruption controls in several …

Discussion: Crikey, Media & Entertainment and Digital Spy

Guardian: Rupert Murdoch's memo to News Corp staff - full text

Yinka Adegoke / Reuters: News Corp sets up global ethics team in wake of hacking scandal

Jacob Young / Wired:

WIRED and Jonah Lehrer, for the record... We want to ensure that there is no confusion regarding reports today about writer Jonah Lehrer and WIRED. Jonah has not been “hired” by WIRED; he's been a contributing editor at the magazine and the website for years.

BuzzFeed:

Wired Stands By Jonah Lehrer [UPDATED] — Jonah Lehrer, the New Yorker ideas writer fired for fabricating Bob Dylan quotes in a nonfiction book, is set to re-emerge as a writer for Wired, where he spent several years and wrote the Frontal Cortex blog, a magazine spokesman confirmed Wednesday.

Discussion: bookforum.com, @franklinfoer, Erik Wemple, @mmoyr, Poynter, New York Magazine, The Huffington Post and The Wrap

Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Wired sticks with liar, fabricator

Discussion: Poynter

New York Times:

Ecuador to Let Assange Stay in Its Embassy — 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 Quito on Wednesday night.

Discussion: The Age

Reuters:

Ecuador says Britain threatened to raid embassy over Assange — (Reuters) - Ecuador said on Wednesday that the British government had threatened to raid its embassy in London if Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was not handed over, and that Quito would make its decision on his asylum request on Thursday.

Discussion: Guardian, Firedoglake, @wikileaks, Wired and CNET

Reuters:
Assange faces arrest even if Ecuador grants asylum

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire, Guardian and RT

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

13 ways of looking at Medium, the new blogging/sharing/discovery platform from @ev and Obvious — [With apologies to Wallace Stevens, the finest poet to ever serve as vice president of the Hartford Livestock Insurance Company.] — I. — Medium is a new online publishing platform from Obvious Corp. It launched yesterday.

Discussion: Medium, PC Magazine, GigaOM, AdAge, msnbc.com, Digits, App Advice, Business Insider and Snarkmarket

Choire Sicha / The Awl:
The Pretty New Web and the Future of “Native” Advertising

Discussion: Digiday, Anil Dash, GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, AllThingsD and The Next Web

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Washington Post corrects story that said Fareed Zakaria lifted quote — Tuesday, The Washington Post's Paul Farhi reported (and I repeated) Clyde V. Prestowitz's contention that Fareed Zakaria didn't cite a quote of his in Zakaria's book “The Post-American World.”

Discussion: mnilive.com, Politico, The Daily Beast and The Huffington Post

David Frum / The Daily Beast:
A False Charge Against Fareed Zakaria

Discussion: Mother Jones, iMediaEthics, Swampland and CJR

Erik Wemple:

No more TBD.com — This may be one of the last times that TBD.com does what it's most famous for. Getting media attention, that is. — When I attempted to log onto the site this afternoon, nothing approaching the TBD.com template popped up. Instead, I was redirected to WJLA.com …

Discussion: @jeffjarvis

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 …

Discussion: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Next Web, MacRumors, Forbes, Multichannel, Business Insider, Deadline.com, HotHardware.com News, 9to5Mac, The Verge, GigaOM, Engadget and CNET

Michael Wolff / Guardian:

Mark Thompson at the New York Times: the enviable position of being Arthur Sulzberger's No 2 — The BBC director general can't expect much power at the New York Times. Better yet, he won't have much responsibility either — Mark Thompson, the director general of the BBC …

Discussion: The New York Observer, The Daily Beast, Bloomberg, The New Yorker Blog and Media Decoder

Robert Andrews / paidContent:
NYT's new CEO: BBC's Thompson is custodian and curator, not digital creator

Discussion: GigaOM, Poynter, @gabrielsherman, Media Decoder, BBC, Erik Wemple, AdAge, Capital New York, The New York Times Company and Newsonomics

Adrian Holovaty:

Onto the next chapter — In July 2007, I founded a company called EveryBlock. August 31 will be my last day at the company. — I've worked on this for five years, three of those after selling it to msnbc.com, and I've developed an uncontrollable itch to do something new.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and @dangillmor

Michael Hudson / The International Consortium …:

The Question Investigative Reporters Fail to Ask — Morton Mintz wasn't a cloak and dagger kind of reporter. His muckraking stories on public health dangers and corporate misconduct rarely relied on secret, Deep Throat-style informants. Instead he produced three decades' worth of Page …

Andy Ostroy / The Huffington Post:

Soledad O'Brien's Amazing John Sununu Interview Should Be Taught in Journalism School — CNN's Soledad O'Brien did something which is extremely rare in television news these days: she actually did her job. And it was the best example of truly awesome journalism I've seen since Katie Couric …

Tim Kenneally / The Wrap:

Fox Networks' President & COO David Haslingden Stepping Down — David Haslingden, the president and COO of Fox Networks Group, will step down at the end of the calendar year, NewsCorp. said Wednesday. — Haslingden, who has served in the position since January 2011, is leaving to return …

Discussion: Radio & Television … and Broadcasting & Cable

Stephen Foley / The Independent:

Bad news for Reuters — It is 161 years since Paul Julius Reuter, a German-born entrepreneur whose first venture in the news business was sending carrier pigeons across Europe, installed himself in the London Stock Exchange, called himself the Reuter's Telegram Company and started selling …

Discussion: Press Gazette