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5:35 PM ET, August 26, 2012

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Dylan Byers / Politico:
NYT's Abramson rebuts Brisbane charge  —  The executive editor of the New York Times is disputing an accusation of liberal bias made by her very own public editor, Arthur Brisbane.  —  In his final column for the Times, Brisbane wrote that his fellow staffers “share a kind of political …
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Arthur S. Brisbane / New York Times:
Success and Risk as The Times Transforms  —  “WHY on earth would you want this job?”  —  Two years ago, I set out to answer this question in my inaugural public editor column — if only because so many people at The New York Times had asked it.  Now, as I complete my term and hand the baton …
Julie Moos / Poynter:
Tampa prepares for 15,000 journalists covering the RNC  —  While local broadcasters in Tampa Bay prepare to cover the Republican National Convention next week, the area is preparing for the 15-16,000 journalists who will arrive Sunday and stay for five days.
Discussion: The Wrap
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Reporters: Why are you in Tampa?  —  I challenge every journalist in Tampa for the Republican convention — every one of the 15-16,000 of you — to answer this:  —  * Why are you there?  —  * What will we learn from you?  —  * What actual reporting can you possibly do that delivers anything …
Discussion: @hernanri, @pkafka, @dangillmor and Poynter
David Carr / New York Times:
Political Conventions Can Learn From Reality Shows  —  If the political conventions were managed like a typical television show that was losing audience, think of the meetings that would be held during the run-up.  —  TV Boss: “The cast is uninspired, the plots are unbearably boring …
Discussion: Firedoglake
The Independent:
Angry Murdoch used Harry photos to defy Leveson  —  An angry Rupert Murdoch ordered The Sun to publish pictures of a naked Prince Harry against the wishes of the Royal Family because he wanted to send a warning shot to Lord Justice Leveson, sources said yesterday.
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
No, metered-content walls won't save journalism  —  Paywalls of all kinds have been popping up at newspapers across North America like mushrooms after a rainstorm, thanks in large part to the adoption of a metered paywall at the New York Times last year.  The latest to join the cavalcade …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Blink: The 21-minute news cycle  —  The whole story — from gaffe to attack to defense — was shorter than a sitcom episode.  —  Friday, at 12:23 p.m. EST in Commerce, Mich., Mitt Romney made a crack about President Barack Obama's birth certificate, and reporters at the event immediately recognized a landmine.
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Photo Alert: Instagram Goes Mainstream as the AP Plans Convention Coverage via iPhones  —  The AP's staff photographers covering the upcoming political conventions in Tampa and Charlotte will not just be shooting for the wire service with their high-end DSLR cameras, they will shoot separate …
Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Coming in the side door: The value of homepages is shifting from traffic-driver to brand  —  Moving on from newspapers, journalism industry soothsayers are now predicting the decline of something much younger: the homepage.  —  As with newspapers — which haven't so much disappeared …
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Book Reviewers for Hire Meet a Demand for Online Raves  —  TODD RUTHERFORD was 7 years old when he first understood the nature of supply and demand.  He was with a bunch of other boys, one of whom showed off a copy of Playboy to giggles and intense interest.
Discussion: The Big Picture
Curtis Brainard / CJR:
CBS goofs up the green beat  —  Only two months after hiring him, CBS News has already botched a report from its new science and environment contributor, allowing him to interview a fire ecologist from The Nature Conservancy without mentioning that the contributor is the lead scientist at the very same group.
Bernie Bernstein / On The Media:
The Story of the Times' Gory Empire State Shooting Photo  —  If you went on the New York Times' site this morning to read about news of the Empire State building shooting, you might have seen this haunting photo of one of the victims of the shooting, Steve Ercolino.
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