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8:30 AM ET, August 16, 2012

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Sky Sources: Ecuadorian embassy grants asylum to Julian Assange

Lizzy Davies / Guardian:

Julian Assange Ecuador embassy row - live coverage — 12:41 BST Greg Callus, a trainee barrister (@greg_callus), reckons he's found an instance in which the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987 has been used before by the government: in a bid to remove squatters from the Cambodian embassy in 1988.

Discussion: @ggreenwald and @wyliecatherine

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: @ggreenwald, @skynewsbreak, @tomjharper and The Age

Reuters:
Assange faces arrest even if Ecuador grants asylum

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire, RT and Guardian

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 …

Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp launches anti-corruption review

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.

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

Discussion: Poynter

BuzzFeed:
Wired Stands By Jonah Lehrer [UPDATED]

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

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, One Man & His Blog, Betabeat, GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, PC Magazine, msnbc.com, AdAge, Digits, App Advice, Business Insider, The Wall Blog, GalleyCat, Snarkmarket and VatorNews

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

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

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

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:

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: iMediaEthics, mnilive.com, Mother Jones, Politico, Swampland and The Daily Beast

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.

Discussion: TechCrunch, The Next Web and MediaPost

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

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 …

Discussion: Guardian, The Caucus, The New Republic and New York Magazine