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12:15 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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Lizzy Davies / Guardian:
Julian Assange Ecuador embassy row - live coverage  —  15:16 BST My colleague Ole AlSaker has been down at the Ecuadorean embassy.  This clip shows protesters chanting, “We are not a British colony!” outside the building- echoing the defiance of their foreign minister last night.
@reuters:
@skynewsbreak:   Foreign Office says will “carry out binding obligation to extradite Julian Assange to Sweden”
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.
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.
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Phone hacking: Andy Coulson and others to face crown court in September  —  Six former News of the World Journalists, plus private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, told of next court date by magistrate  —  Andy Coulson, the prime minister's former director of communications …
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Guardian:   Rupert Murdoch's memo to News Corp staff - full text
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.
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Choire Sicha / The Awl:
The Pretty New Web and the Future of “Native” Advertising
Lewis DVorkin / Forbes:
Inside Forbes: A New Language of Journalism Speaks to the Rebirth of a Profession  —  As chief product officer, I spend a lot of time talking with people outside FORBES about our unique model for journalism.  Here's one question I get asked all the time: “What exactly are you guys up to?”
Discussion: Talking To Strangers
Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
What to Do with Political Lies  —  Fact-checkers are no longer enough: If lies are going to be repeated, the truth needs to be, too.  —  My former Washington Post colleague Alec MacGillis has a thought-provoking piece in The New Republic today about “The Welfare Card and the Post-Truth Campaign …
Barry Walsh / Realscreen:
Mitt Romney repeats pledge to cut PBS federal funding if elected  —  Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has elaborated on his plans to slash U.S. government spending to Fortune magazine - plans that include cutting federal funding to PBS.  In a comprehensive interview …
Simon Rogers / Guardian:
London 2012 and data journalism: what did we learn at the Olympics?  —  It was two weeks of elite sport, emotion - and data.  So how did we deal with it and what did we learn?  These are the 12 lessons we learned from London 2012  —  • More data journalism and data visualisations from the Guardian
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
After ‘chains’ remark, Biden's staff tries to edit press pool reports  —  Vice President Joe Biden's “penchant for off-message moments regularly sends aides in the West Wing and at Chicago reelection headquarters into orbit,” Jonathan Martin writes in Politico, so his staff tries “to save Biden from himself.”
Discussion: Politico and Mediaite
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: paidContent
 
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