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7:15 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, ZDNet, BBC, 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.
Discussion: CJR
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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 and Bloomberg
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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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Olbermann Who?  MSNBC Abandons Neutrality Pose For Convention Coverage  —  Here's one indication of how much the news landscape has changed in the past four years: In 2008, with the presidential election heading into the home stretch, MSNBC pointedly took its top on-air personality …
Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable
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
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.
Charlie Warzel / Adweek:
Overdosing on HuffPost Live Streaming network innovates, though lacks gravitas  —  On Monday morning, at 10:00 am EST, a stopwatch timer finally ticked to zero and Arianna Huffington's trademarked accent broke the silence from a burgundy-colored leather couch to launch a next-level experiment that …
Discussion: Globe and Mail and Beet.TV
 
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